Custom Templates

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Chris

I really swear I'm not a moron....

I have a custom template that I used to be able to place
in the PPT Template folder and have it appear as a choice
when opening a new presentation along with the other
templates that come w/ Office.

I tracked down the folder with all the templates in it,
placed my custom template in it, and it doesn't appear.
Is there any way to make this happen??

Thanks in Advance,
Christine
 
Hi Christine,

Double check your template folder locations by going to MS
Word and clicking on tools, options, file locations, user
templates

HTH,
Glenna
 
THANK YOU....that second link basically told me that I'm not losing my mind :-)

I really appreciate the help

Christine
 
[CRITICAL UPDATE - Anyone using Office 2003 should install the critical
update as soon as possible. From PowerPoint, choose "Help -> Check for
Updates".]

Hello,

If none of the suggestions provided give you the functionality that you
were looking for or, if you (or anyone else reading this message) have
suggestions for how PowerPoint should help you manage the use of custom and
built-in designs, don't forget to send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS,
please) to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.

IMPORTANT: Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of
suggestions).

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But I might be losing my mind. <G> I've re-read my tutorial and I have
some errors & mis-statements in it so I've disabled it. I think I must
have written it very late at night . I get confused because I have 4
versions of PowerPoint on my system. The tutorial at
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/powerpoint_templates.htm is
the one you should use.

If you only have PowerPoint 2003 you'll find the design templates included
with PowerPoint in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 2003\Templates.
However, any templates that you create in PowerPoint or modify and save as
POTs will be saved in C:\Documents and Settings\yourid\Application
Data\Microsoft\Templates, by default. It's a good idea to add a folder to
that path, such as C:\Documents and Settings\yourid\Application
Data\Microsoft\Templates\MineAllMine.

Then, when you first use your new template in PowerPoint 2003 (to locate it
click on "My Computer" in the "New Presentation" Task Pane and click on the
"MineAllMine" tab), PowerPoint seems to keep a record of it and will display
it in the Task Pane of Design Templates the next time you open PowerPoint.
You don't need to even know where it is unless you want to send it to
someone, you uninstall and reinstall PowerPoint, etc. That's why it's a
good idea to save it to the default location so that you'll always find it
in "C:\Documents and Settings\yourid\Application
Data\Microsoft\Templates\MineAllMine.
If you choose to ignore all of this, you can still locate and use your
templates. When creating a new presentation, use the search capability and
when you want to change a template, go to Format > Slide Design and use the
Browse button at the bottom of the Task Pane. Of course you can always just
double click on a POT file and it will open up in PowerPoint as a new
presentation ready for creation.
 
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