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Updating the Word Global Template for all staff
See the article at http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm#sharing for a recommendation on how to share a template in an organization.
There is no simple way to convince users in your organization to actually make use of the template. Educating users will usually be necessary.
I advise against replacing or manipulating the new blank document template (Normal.dotm) in Word. It stores some of the customizations that individual users may have made, and therefore it is not a good idea to manipulate or replace that template on users' workstations.
See the article at http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm#sharing for a recommendation on how to share a template in an organization.
There is no simple way to convince users in your organization to actually make use of the template. Educating users will usually be necessary.
I advise against replacing or manipulating the new blank document template (Normal.dotm) in Word. It stores some of the customizations that individual users may have made, and therefore it is not a good idea to manipulate or replace that template on users' workstations.
Hello Mandy Lightfoot ,
just to add to replacing the "Blank" template. Whenever Microsoft releases updates, they sometimes reach the Normal.dot too, disregarding any company settings, replacing it with MS's settings, despite all IT efforts to prevent that, so I also urge you not to replace Normal.dot.
In my previous company we had, like so many others, different font type, size, spacing etc. in our Normal.dot, which got always replaced with that horrible Calibri, 1.05 spacing, 8pt after settings when Microsoft released some updates.
It's not worth the effort to battle that.
Much better to place your company template into the shared folder your IT provides and inform the users.
- Thank you - Looks like I will need to do training then 🙂
- Mandy - did you find some training? If so, where did you find it? I'm struggling and desperately need to understand the basics to try and remedy the gremlins I installed when creating my templates!
