It is a mystery to me what the designers of these wizards were thinking.
They evidently believe that (a) you will use the wizard only once or (b) you
will be willing to go back to the Web site every time you want to use it. I
played around with this a bit one day and, with considerable trial and
error, arrived at the following method of saving the wizard for future use:
Go ahead and use the wizard online to create your newsletter. Just keep
clicking Next and then Finish; it won't matter what your answers are: all
you want to do
is get through the thing and get the document on your computer. When the
Wizard is through with its magic, follow these steps:
1. Select Tools | Macro | Macros.
2. Drop down the "Macros in" list and look for one with a weird name (in my
case it was tp847[1].dot, but for you it might be tp847.dot; this was not my
first stab at downloading). Copy the name down exactly.
3. Use Windows Find/Search to find that file. It will be in Word's Recent
folder and will be just a shortcut. (As a shortcut, you can use the History
button on the Places Bar in Word's File Open dialog to locate it.)
4. Right-click on the filename and choose Properties. If you're doing this
in Windows Explorer, look for the Target box on the Shortcut tab. If in
Word's File Open dialog, look for Location on the General tab.
5. Select the path and use Ctrl+C to copy it.
6. In Word's File Open dialog, use Ctrl+V to paste the path into the "File
name" box. Press Enter.
7. This will open the actual template. It will be blank, but don't worry
about that; the main thing is that it contains all the macros you need to
create the newsletter.
8. Choose Save As and select Document Template as the file type if it is not
already selected.
9. Ordinarily when you choose to save something as a template, Word will
default to the Templates folder, but that didn't happen in this case, so
you'll have to navigate to your user templates folder (if you're unsure, get
the path from the File Locations tab of Tools | Options). If there's a
subfolder you want it to be in, choose that.
10. You'll probably want to change the file name to something like
Newsletter Wizard.dot.
11. Save and close. When you select your Newsletter Wizard in the File New
dialog, it will behave just the same as it did online.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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Jan H. DeGiorgio said:
I recently downloaded a newsletter wizard from the MS Office site and it
worked great until I shut Word down and tried to use it again - although it
showed up as recently used I couldn't activate it.
Is there some additional installation step required after downloading new
wizards?
Thanks to all.
