How to add a new group of templates?

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Using Word 2002 under XP Pro.

When creating a new document, I click on "General Templates", and the
usual dialog box containing Microsoft's model templates pops up. This
box has 9 tabs (Publications, Reports, Web Pages, General etc) for each
group of related templates.

I want to add a new tab to this dialog box, so that I can put my own
templates into their own group. But I cannot see how to do this.

(Previously, using Word 97 under Win98, I was able to create a new
folder under the top-level templates folder, and this new folder then
appeared as a new tab. I could then store my new templates in this new
folder. Nice and simple. But this mechanism does not work with Win2002).

Thoughts anyone?
 
This mechanism does still work in recent versions of Word, with two
provisos:

1. You must create a subfolder of the user templates folder. That's the one
where Normal.dot is stored, *not* the one where the "installed" templates
are stored.

2. The tab won't appear until the folder contains at least one template.

In addition, if you want to add templates to the tabs Word has created, you
need to create a subfolder with the exact same name ("Letters & Faxes," for
example) and put your templates there. They'll then be combined with Word's
installed templates.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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Suzanne has answered your question. For more on the different kinds of
templates and locations of templates folders see <URL:
http://addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm>.

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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory:
<URL: http://addbalance.com/word/index.htm>

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide)
<URL: http://addbalance.com/usersguide/index.htm>

See also the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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Magic! The piece I missed was actually placing a template in the new
folder. When I did that, the tab appeared.

For the thousandth time Suzanne, you're wonderful!

(And so are you Charles, but I suspect not quite so good looking. :-))

Thanks to you both.
 
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