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Publisher 2003 Templates do not act like Templates
Hi. :-)
Ever since I installed Publisher 2003, the Templates have not behaved like templates. When I click a Template, instead of the default "New" Publisher document, the Template itself opens up with the same name as the template. In other words, Publisher 2003 templates simply behave like regular Publisher documents, not like templates. (My Word 2003 templates behave normally.) Similarly, when I open up Publisher, in the "New Publication" pane on the left, when I click on "Templates," instead of showing my templates in my C:\Documents and Settings\name\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates it rather shows every *.pub document in the "My Documents" and the above listed templates folder. Why doesn't Publisher 2003 distinguish between templates and documents created from templates? Thanks for any help or suggestions you may have. -- David Hollaz |
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Publisher 2003 Templates do not act like Templates
Are you saving the publication as a Publisher template? When you do the template
goes into the folder you mentioned in your post. The secret is to save as...Publisher template. -- Mary Sauer http://msauer.mvps.org/ "David Hollaz" wrote in message ... Hi. :-) Ever since I installed Publisher 2003, the Templates have not behaved like templates. When I click a Template, instead of the default "New" Publisher document, the Template itself opens up with the same name as the template. In other words, Publisher 2003 templates simply behave like regular Publisher documents, not like templates. (My Word 2003 templates behave normally.) Similarly, when I open up Publisher, in the "New Publication" pane on the left, when I click on "Templates," instead of showing my templates in my C:\Documents and Settings\name\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates it rather shows every *.pub document in the "My Documents" and the above listed templates folder. Why doesn't Publisher 2003 distinguish between templates and documents created from templates? Thanks for any help or suggestions you may have. -- David Hollaz |
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Publisher 2003 Templates do not act like Templates
Hi, Mary. Thanks for your reply. :-)
Yes, I do save them as Publisher Templates. In fact, when I save as a template from the My Documents folder, the Save As dialog them immediately jumps to the Templates folder to save it there as a Publisher Template. That's what confuses me. In the Save process, it jumps to the Templates folder, so at least at that point it does recognize it as a Template. But when I then open such 'templates,' they display the name of the Template and not "New Document." And, again, when I look for Templates in the "New Publication" pane it displays all my Publisher 2003 documents as if the program thinks they are all templates. It saves them all alike with a ".pub" extension. Thanks for your help. :-) -- David Hollaz "Mary Sauer" wrote: Are you saving the publication as a Publisher template? When you do the template goes into the folder you mentioned in your post. The secret is to save as...Publisher template. -- Mary Sauer http://msauer.mvps.org/ "David Hollaz" wrote in message ... Hi. :-) Ever since I installed Publisher 2003, the Templates have not behaved like templates. When I click a Template, instead of the default "New" Publisher document, the Template itself opens up with the same name as the template. In other words, Publisher 2003 templates simply behave like regular Publisher documents, not like templates. (My Word 2003 templates behave normally.) Similarly, when I open up Publisher, in the "New Publication" pane on the left, when I click on "Templates," instead of showing my templates in my C:\Documents and Settings\name\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates it rather shows every *.pub document in the "My Documents" and the above listed templates folder. Why doesn't Publisher 2003 distinguish between templates and documents created from templates? Thanks for any help or suggestions you may have. -- David Hollaz |
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Publisher 2003 Templates do not act like Templates
You need to save templates with .tem extension I believe.
-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rob Giordano Microsoft MVP Expression "David Hollaz" wrote in message ... Hi, Mary. Thanks for your reply. :-) Yes, I do save them as Publisher Templates. In fact, when I save as a template from the My Documents folder, the Save As dialog them immediately jumps to the Templates folder to save it there as a Publisher Template. That's what confuses me. In the Save process, it jumps to the Templates folder, so at least at that point it does recognize it as a Template. But when I then open such 'templates,' they display the name of the Template and not "New Document." And, again, when I look for Templates in the "New Publication" pane it displays all my Publisher 2003 documents as if the program thinks they are all templates. It saves them all alike with a ".pub" extension. Thanks for your help. :-) -- David Hollaz "Mary Sauer" wrote: Are you saving the publication as a Publisher template? When you do the template goes into the folder you mentioned in your post. The secret is to save as...Publisher template. -- Mary Sauer http://msauer.mvps.org/ "David Hollaz" wrote in message ... Hi. :-) Ever since I installed Publisher 2003, the Templates have not behaved like templates. When I click a Template, instead of the default "New" Publisher document, the Template itself opens up with the same name as the template. In other words, Publisher 2003 templates simply behave like regular Publisher documents, not like templates. (My Word 2003 templates behave normally.) Similarly, when I open up Publisher, in the "New Publication" pane on the left, when I click on "Templates," instead of showing my templates in my C:\Documents and Settings\name\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates it rather shows every *.pub document in the "My Documents" and the above listed templates folder. Why doesn't Publisher 2003 distinguish between templates and documents created from templates? Thanks for any help or suggestions you may have. -- David Hollaz |
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Publisher 2003 Templates do not act like Templates
No, templates have a .pub extension. Obviously there is some code that
recognizes a template over a regular publication. When you open a Publisher template, edit it, you will have to save it again as a template, otherwise Publisher will ask for a new name. -- Mary Sauer http://msauer.mvps.org/ "Rob Giordano [MS MVP]" wrote in message ... You need to save templates with .tem extension I believe. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rob Giordano Microsoft MVP Expression "David Hollaz" wrote in message ... Hi, Mary. Thanks for your reply. :-) Yes, I do save them as Publisher Templates. In fact, when I save as a template from the My Documents folder, the Save As dialog them immediately jumps to the Templates folder to save it there as a Publisher Template. That's what confuses me. In the Save process, it jumps to the Templates folder, so at least at that point it does recognize it as a Template. But when I then open such 'templates,' they display the name of the Template and not "New Document." And, again, when I look for Templates in the "New Publication" pane it displays all my Publisher 2003 documents as if the program thinks they are all templates. It saves them all alike with a ".pub" extension. Thanks for your help. :-) -- David Hollaz "Mary Sauer" wrote: Are you saving the publication as a Publisher template? When you do the template goes into the folder you mentioned in your post. The secret is to save as...Publisher template. -- Mary Sauer http://msauer.mvps.org/ "David Hollaz" wrote in message ... Hi. :-) Ever since I installed Publisher 2003, the Templates have not behaved like templates. When I click a Template, instead of the default "New" Publisher document, the Template itself opens up with the same name as the template. In other words, Publisher 2003 templates simply behave like regular Publisher documents, not like templates. (My Word 2003 templates behave normally.) Similarly, when I open up Publisher, in the "New Publication" pane on the left, when I click on "Templates," instead of showing my templates in my C:\Documents and Settings\name\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates it rather shows every *.pub document in the "My Documents" and the above listed templates folder. Why doesn't Publisher 2003 distinguish between templates and documents created from templates? Thanks for any help or suggestions you may have. -- David Hollaz |
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Publisher 2003 Templates do not act like Templates
I was thinking of FrontPage template files...sheesh getting' old.
It's still strange that there's .doc/.dot why not .pub/.put :-) ... that Publisher doesn't have sep. ext for a template. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rob Giordano Microsoft MVP Expression "Mary Sauer" wrote in message ... No, templates have a .pub extension. Obviously there is some code that recognizes a template over a regular publication. When you open a Publisher template, edit it, you will have to save it again as a template, otherwise Publisher will ask for a new name. -- Mary Sauer http://msauer.mvps.org/ "Rob Giordano [MS MVP]" wrote in message ... You need to save templates with .tem extension I believe. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rob Giordano Microsoft MVP Expression "David Hollaz" wrote in message ... Hi, Mary. Thanks for your reply. :-) Yes, I do save them as Publisher Templates. In fact, when I save as a template from the My Documents folder, the Save As dialog them immediately jumps to the Templates folder to save it there as a Publisher Template. That's what confuses me. In the Save process, it jumps to the Templates folder, so at least at that point it does recognize it as a Template. But when I then open such 'templates,' they display the name of the Template and not "New Document." And, again, when I look for Templates in the "New Publication" pane it displays all my Publisher 2003 documents as if the program thinks they are all templates. It saves them all alike with a ".pub" extension. Thanks for your help. :-) -- David Hollaz "Mary Sauer" wrote: Are you saving the publication as a Publisher template? When you do the template goes into the folder you mentioned in your post. The secret is to save as...Publisher template. -- Mary Sauer http://msauer.mvps.org/ "David Hollaz" wrote in message ... Hi. :-) Ever since I installed Publisher 2003, the Templates have not behaved like templates. When I click a Template, instead of the default "New" Publisher document, the Template itself opens up with the same name as the template. In other words, Publisher 2003 templates simply behave like regular Publisher documents, not like templates. (My Word 2003 templates behave normally.) Similarly, when I open up Publisher, in the "New Publication" pane on the left, when I click on "Templates," instead of showing my templates in my C:\Documents and Settings\name\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates it rather shows every *.pub document in the "My Documents" and the above listed templates folder. Why doesn't Publisher 2003 distinguish between templates and documents created from templates? Thanks for any help or suggestions you may have. -- David Hollaz |
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Publisher 2003 Templates do not act like Templates
Rob Giordano [MS MVP] wrote:
It's still strange that there's .doc/.dot why not .pub/.put :-) ... that Publisher doesn't have sep. ext for a template. That's something that I've commented to the Publisher team about. Currently it seems that templates are not any different from regular Publisher files, except that they are located in the Templates folder, and Publisher has flagged something internally to indicate that they are templates (since last time I checked, simply dropping a file into the Templates folder didn't turn it into a template). -- Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher http://ed.mvps.org |
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