Hi Wally
When a document is created from a template, the document starts life
with whatever text and graphics are in the template. Thereafter, there
is no link between the template and the document as far as that text and
graphics are concerned.
You can edit the template to change the company name. (To edit the
template, do File > Open within Word. Or, from Windows Explorer,
right-click the name of the .dot file and choose Open. Don't just click
the name, because the default action is to create a new document.)
Editing the template will affect all *future* documents created from the
template. But it won't affect existing documents.
To change text or graphics in *existing* documents, you would have to
edit each one manually, or create a macro to automate the editing.
First, you would have to create a macro to perform the change in one
document. Then, apply that macro to all your documents.
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/MacrosVBA/BatchFR.htm has an example of
looping through each document in a folder, which might give you a start.
Hope this helps.
Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
Melbourne, Australia
Wally said:
this works, however, i have a large number of documets that i
need to do this with. the rest of the properties i can change using the
property menu from explorer. any ideas how to do it with out having to
open and save each as a template and then creating a doc from that
template?
