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May 11th, 2007, 06:58 PM
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Where to put custom templates and .dot or .dotx?
We just upgraded to Office 2007 (from 2000) on new computers.
We have 3 custom template folders for business use. On the old machines, these were stored in subfolders under C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data \Microsoft\Templates \folder 1 \folder 2 ... Can I just follow this same structure in Office 2007? I see that Office 2007 has a lot of new filetypes both for documents and for templates. Should I convert these all to .dotx? Leave them as is and convert as I need them? ??? What are the differences? What are the downsides of coverting or not converting? -- Running Word 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000 
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May 12th, 2007, 05:29 PM
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Where to put custom templates and .dot or .dotx?
Providing you are still on Windows XPP (not Vista) use the same setup.
(Remember that the subfolders won't show in Word until there are actually templates in the folders though). I don't see any mileage in updating .doc to .docx (or .docm) until you actually need to edit them next: then change them to the new format. I'd recommend changing all the templates before use though. The plus side for using the new file format (XML) is resilience. The files you see as docx (or docm) are actually many files zipped together. You can see the component files if you use Explorer to change document.docx to document.zip and open it in WinZip. This is one reason why Word 2007 docs are considerably smaller than previous versions. -- Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP "LurfysMa" wrote in message ... We just upgraded to Office 2007 (from 2000) on new computers. We have 3 custom template folders for business use. On the old machines, these were stored in subfolders under C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data \Microsoft\Templates \folder 1 \folder 2 ... Can I just follow this same structure in Office 2007? I see that Office 2007 has a lot of new filetypes both for documents and for templates. Should I convert these all to .dotx? Leave them as is and convert as I need them? ??? What are the differences? What are the downsides of coverting or not converting? -- Running Word 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000
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