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forcing Word templates to save as new documents
Unfortunately this isn't working the way its supposed to. I saved the files as a dotx file but instead of forcing a resave, it will overwrite the template file. If I mark the file as read-only, it forces it that way, but just saving it as a template doesn't do it.
How are you accessing your .dotx files? Are you going to Word > File > Open...? If so, that's your edit mode. If you choose New instead of Open, then select Personal rather than Office, you should be able to use templates instead of editing them.
Colleen KayterThe only issue with that is we would have to retrain the staff the proper way to use the templates. Its not practical.
Colleen Kayter but if you do that, open from New instead of Open, how do you get the template into the document?
When you create a document from a template, any content present in the template will be copied into the new document. In other words, you can have "example content" in the template, if appropriate.
