how to Add templates for "New Document"

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I have a group of 20 templates used for audio cd covers. Is there a way to
incorporate them into words template list so I can just use "New document"
instead of having to manually selecting the template each time.

thank you for your help



JohnP
 
The best you can do is to put your templates in the user templates
folder; to learn its path look at the File locations tab of the
Tools>Options dialog box.
 
On the File Locations tab of Tools | Options, find the path for User
Templates. Navigate to that folder and create a subfolder for your CD
covers. Store your CD cover templates there. Now when you open the File New
dialog, you will have a separate tab for the CD covers. To make the dialog
more accessible, you may wish to substitute a FileNew or FileNewDialog
button for the FileNewDefault button (which just creates a new Blank
Document). This button will open the File New dialog at the last-used tab
(during each session; it resets to General each time you start Word).

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There are several other schemes you can try, depending on your favorite
operating method:

- You can put your CD cover templates in a subfolder under the User
Templates folder. That subfolder will appear as a new tab in the File > New
dialog. If you dislike the New Document task pane in Word 2002/2003 as I do,
you can use the Tools > Customize dialog to replace the New button on the
toolbar with the one in the "All Commands" category named FileNewDialog,
which bypasses the task pane and opens the dialog directly (confusingly, its
tooltip says "Other...").

- You can create a series of macros, one per template, like this one
(assuming you placed the templates in a folder "CD covers" under the User
Templates folder):

Public Sub NewCDTemplate1()
Dim TemplatePath As String
TemplatePath = Options.DefaultFilePath(wdUserTemplatesPath)
Documents.Add TemplatePath & "\CD covers\CDTemplate1.dot"
End Sub

Then create a new toolbar and add a button to it for each macro. Click a
button and you'll get a new document based on the template named in the
macro. Or create a new menu or submenu and put items on it to run the
macros. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AsgnCmdOrMacroToToolbar.htm.

- You can create a series of shortcut icons on your desktop. In each one,
make the Target box look something like this (depending on the installation
path of your Word program and the path to the User Templates folder),
varying only the name of the template:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\WINWORD.EXE" /t"C:\Documents and
Settings\jprok\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates\CD
covers\CDTemplate1.dot"

The /t switch causes Word to start with a new document based on the named
template.
 
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