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Chris Lane

Hi,

I hope someone can help me with this. I would like to
know how to detach a template for a Word doc and save the
formatting so that I can send the document to someone who
does not have the template.

Thanks,

Chris
 
Sorry, I'm not sure what you want to do. If you want to send someone a
custom template then just open your mail programme and attach the
template to your email as you would anything else.

It's probably in C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Application
Data\Microsoft\Templates but you can check by going to File -- New,
locating the template and then right-clicking and selecting Properties.
That'll tell you where it is and you can then use that information to
find it from Outlook Express (or whatever).

HTH

Steve
 
Thanks for the response Steve but we're having a small
misunderstanding.

I need to send someone who does not want to deal with
document templates a document. My document was formatted
with one of our fairly complex internal templates. The
document itself is not complex but it is fairly long and
this will be the first of a string of document I will need
to send this person. So, my goal is to create the
documenets using our internal templates to ensure the
formatting is consistent with company policy but to detach
the template before transmission while preserving the
document formatting to keep my recipient happy. Hopefully
there is a way to convert from template based formatting
to something like direct formatting.

thanks
 
Sorry, but I'm still confused. The recipient isn't going to need the
template to open a document that's created from it. A template's a set
of instructions that Word uses to create a new document and these
instructions then form part of the document you've created, independent
of the template.

Do you mean that your template uses embedded artwork (e.g. your firm's
logo) or something similar?

Steve
 
The bottom line is that a document is formatted according to the current
printer driver and font outlines on the creating PC. There will inevitably
be some reformatting if you send the document to someone else - regardless
of the template. The only way to eliminate this is to export the document to
PDF format for which you will require extra software - Adobe Acrobat (though
there are cheaper, even free tools available).

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Steve, Graham, and Shauna,

All of thanks for your help. Mission accomplished.
Shauna, you should write a book, the explainations on your
insight on end-user needs and your explainations were as
good as I've seen.
 
Dumb question: Would saving as a .RTF, plus embedding
the fonts work as well as converting to a PDF?
I've had some luck, but not much experience, in
making successful transfers that way, but ... always
open to better ways & especially knowing the why of it
all.

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Can you embed fonts in RTF?

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No guru here, but I'm pretty sure you can, long as it's
a tt font. One of my Japanese translators I work with
told me about it. It's an option in the Tools menu
under the Save tab, and I used to use it all the time
with her. That was pre XP, but I don't see anything to
the contrary in my OXP Word Help.

So, duhhhhh, can't you? I'm positive I did it in
win98, assumed it'd be OK still? It's relatively easy
to check, but I'm too bushed right now - the whole font
becomes a part of the saved file, near the end of the
document as I recall, and I THINK it also installs on
the machine it's sent to but that's pusing the brain
cells a little too hard right now. I'll see if I can
find my Hex editor tomorrow and check it out to be
positive, but I'd bet a free cup of coffee ... .

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