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Ivan T. Williams

If I download a template from the Microsoft web site,
where does it save it on my PC?

Thanks in advance for your assistance...
 
If I download a template from the Microsoft web site,
where does it save it on my PC?

Thanks in advance for your assistance...
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Set up a folder to save it to, then "save to disk" and
select the folder you created.
 
Ivan T. Williams said:
If I download a template from the Microsoft web site,
where does it save it on my PC?

Thanks in advance for your assistance...
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Unless your browser operates very differently from the one I use, you
will have to specify where to save the template. If you want that
template available when you click File-New, save it in the same folder
as the others you already have. If your browser (or MS web site) does
things different, just note where it is saved to and then move it to
Word's template folder.

To find out where the template folder is, in Word select Tools-Options,
then the File Locations tab. The "User Templates" will have the path to
where those are saved. (If you can't quite see where this folder is,
because the dialogue box won't expand, highlight the User Templates and
press Modify - this will open a dialogue box which will show more of
that path - just remember to hit Cancel!).

Note that I'm using Word 2000, so if you're using a newer version, you
might need to check the Help files in case the procedure is different.
 
In some cases it doesn't actually get saved in any meaningful way. If you
use one of the wizards that basically lets you create a document using the
online template, it can be devilish hard to figure out how to acquire the
template for future use. Here's how I managed it in the case of the
newsletter wizard:

I tried various ways to do this and finally found one that works. Go ahead
and use the wizard online to create your newsletter. Just keep clicking Next
and then Finish; it won't matter what your answers are: all you want to do
is get through the thing and get the document on your computer. When the
Wizard is through with its magic, follow these steps:

1. Select Tools | Macro | Macros.

2. Drop down the "Macros in" list and look for one with a weird name (in my
case it was tp847.dot). Copy the name down exactly.

3. Use Windows Find/Search to find that file. It will be in Word's Recent
folder and will be just a shortcut. (As a shortcut, you can use the History
button on the Places Bar in Word's File Open dialog to locate it.)

4. Right-click on the filename and choose Properties. If you're doing this
in Windows Explorer, look for the Target box on the Shortcut tab. If in
Word's File Open dialog, look for Location on the General tab.

5. Select the path and use Ctrl+C to copy it.

6. In Word's File Open dialog, use Ctrl+V to paste the path into the "File
name" box. Press Enter.

7. This will open the actual template. It will be blank, but don't worry
about that; the main thing is that it contains all the macros you need to
create the newsletter.

8. Choose Save As and select Document Template as the file type if it is not
already selected.

9. Ordinarily when you choose to save something as a template, Word will
default to the Templates folder, but that didn't happen in this case, so
you'll have to navigate to your user templates folder (if you're unsure, get
the path from the File Locations tab of Tools | Options). If there's a
subfolder you want it to be in, choose that.

10. You'll probably want to change the file name to something like
Newsletter Wizard.dot.

11. Save and close. When you select your Newsletter Wizard in the File New
dialog, it will behave just the same as it did online.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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This is a real keeper. Would you mind if I add it to my Templates chapter at
http://addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm? (with attribution)
--

Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

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

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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I don't think so, Charles. I may put up a page of my own about it, though
only if it turns out that the Template Gallery is still offering this wizard
type of template (I'm not sure it is). We haven't heard anything back from
the OP.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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