Office 2007 Templates

AIANDAS

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Mar 3, 2007, 3:48:48 PM3/3/07

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Hi,
I have found the template URL and I am attempting to save some templates to
the following folder E:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033
thinking this is the place I should save them, so when I open up the office
wizard to pick and choose the templates I save will be there.
Of course this is not the case!
Which folder do I need to save my templates in, so that all the users in
my PC will see them as well? I have installed my office in E:
Do I need to default the save in the C: among the common folders or some
other office folder in C:, even though the installation is in E: ? In
addition I want it, so that each particular template, i.e., resumes is
catalogued under that category and not the general.
Thanks in advance!

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Echo S

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Mar 4, 2007, 11:06:45 AM3/4/07

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You want them to show up when you go to Office File Button | New -- is that
what you mean by the "Office Wizard to pick and choose the templates"?

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AIANDAS

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Mar 5, 2007, 8:58:34 AM3/5/07

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You know how when you go to the NEW MICROSOFT OFFICE wizard, where you have
tabs for the various templates? Well I want the new templates to show up
under each corresponding category. For example, if I have new resume
templates to be categorized there, instead of what I've been able to do so
far is to just place it in the General tab which is silly to have it there
from a taxonomy perspective. Sorry for using such a big word. First word
that popped into my mind to describe it best ;-)

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Echo S

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Mar 5, 2007, 10:11:36 AM3/5/07

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I know what the word "taxonomy" means.

What I don't know is what you mean by this: "You know how when you go to the
NEW MICROSOFT OFFICE wizard." Could you give me a step-by-step for how
you're initiating this Wizard?

Also, which application are you working in? I think you are in Word, and I
think you are talking about when you click the Office File Button, then New,
then "My templates" on the left.

I am asking because when I go to OFB | New | My Templates, I don't see a
number of tabs -- I just have one "my templates" tab there on this clean
installation. I don't have a "general" tab like you do. That's fine, but I
want to make sure we're talking about the same thing.

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AIANDAS

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Mar 5, 2007, 9:00:02 PM3/5/07

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Wasn't trying to be a wiseass with that word. I am kind of
fried.........anyway. When I open up the NEW OFFICE DOCUMENT, I get the
following tabs: General, Faxes, Letters, Other Documents, Presentations,
Reports, Resumes, Spreadsheet Solutions.
Now in my simple way to understanding things, I want it so that I when I
download a new template that it correspondingly goes to each one of those
tabbed categories. is this a fantasy of mine or can it actually be done?

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Mar 5, 2007, 9:08:23 PM3/5/07

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Hi, The "My Templates" File New dialog no longer contains a "General" tab.
Blank templates that previously appeared in the General tab are now displayed
at the top of the new File New dialog in the area entitled "Blank and
Recent". (Recently accessed templates will show here also.)

The File New top left nav link, "Installed Templates.." shows all templates
copied to your system during Office 2007 setup.

The Template Categories listed at the bottom of the File New left nav are
all from Office Online.

The "My Templates.." dialog will show all your local templates from the User
and Workgroup template locations. If you want tabs to show up in the "My
Templates..." directory, it really easy, just do the following..
1. Create one or more directories at the root of your User and/or
Workgroup template folder. Each of these top level directories will then
correspond to a tab in the your "My Templates..." dialog.
2. Place as many templates as you'd like in these top level folders. If
you don't copy any compatible documents in the folders, the tab will not show
up when you open the "My Templates..." dialog.

Hopes this helps,
John

Echo S

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Mar 5, 2007, 10:38:57 PM3/5/07

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Thanks for popping in, John.

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AIANDAS

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Mar 6, 2007, 1:21:57 PM3/6/07

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John,
What this exercise has done, and correct me if I am wrong, is to help me see
the location of where the template(s) is located for that particular end
user. Is there a location for all users, or do I need to save my templates
for each and every end user separately?

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Mar 6, 2007, 7:22:11 PM3/6/07

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The User and Workgroup template locations are both per user. Since there are
two template locations settings, each user can point the User Template path
to their own local template directory and the Workgroup template directory
setting to the shared location on a mutually accessible drive location (or
even a network share.) Per the related thread, here's how to set your User
and Workgroup template locations... Let me know if I can help any further or
not completely addressing your original question.

Thanks,
John

In Regedit navigate to the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\General\ key and
view/edit
the SharedTemplates and UserTemplates directory values.

Alternatively, to verify your template location through the UI,
1. Click on the Word Options button at the bottom of the File Menu.
2. Select “Advanced” in the left nav, scroll to the end of the “Advanced”
dialog and click on the “File Locations” button.
3. Double click on either the “User” or “Workgroup Template” settings.
4. This will bring up a directory dialog, now click on the “Look In”
dropdown to see the full hierarchical path.

AIANDAS

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Mar 6, 2007, 8:45:32 PM3/6/07

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John,
I'll play with it within the next 2-days or so and respond again. The thing
though that is bothering me, OK I'll designate save location per User Group,
but will the template be saved in corresponding category? For example,
Spreadsheet Solutions or Resume etc?

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Mar 7, 2007, 2:35:02 AM3/7/07

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The categories on the left nav portion of the File New dialog are from the
Office Online website and you can’t modify the contents. Your local
templates are stored in the User and Workgroup Template locations, are all
accessible from the "My Templates..." dialog. (To access this dialog you
click on the "My Templates..." link located at the top of the left nav pane
of the File New dialog for Word, Excel and PPT.)

You can create your own "My Templates..." folder structure by organizing all
your local templates in the User and Workgroup Template directories. Here's
an example....Let’s say you want to share a collection of Word Faxes,
Calendars, Mailing Lists and Invoice templates and have them appear as
separate tabs in the “My Templates…” dialog
1. In the Workgroup Template location create 4 new directories called…
Faxes
Calendars
Mailing Lists
Invoices
2. Copy all the Fax templates into the Faxes folder, all Calendar templates
into the Calendars folder, so on for the other 2 folders.
3. Bring up the File New dialog and click on the "My Tempaltes..." link in
the top left nav.
4. The legacy File New dialog will open and contain 5 tabs across the top
like this..
| My Templates | Faxes | Calendars | Mailing Lists | Invoices |
5. Click on any of the tabs and you'll see your Word compatible Templates.
You don’t have to create separate directories for each app, you can mix any
Office document types in each folder, but when you bring up My Templates from
say Word, you will only see the Word templates.

For example, in the Invoice folder, lets say you copy ExcelInvoice.xltx and
WordInvoice.dotx. Bring up Excel, go into the My Templates folder from File
New and you’ll see an Invoice tab. When you click on the Invoice tab you’ll
see the ExcelInvoice.xltx, but not the WordInvoice.dotx. If you delete
ExcelInvoice.xltx and again go into My Templates from Excel File New, the
Invoice tab will not be available, as no compatible XL templates exist in
that folder.. But when you bring up My Templates through the Word File New
dialog, you will still see an Invoice tab and the corresponding
WordInvoice.dotx.

If you place templates at the root of your User and Workgroup template
directories, all app compatible templates will be displayed in the My
Templates tab.

If you want to see all Templates in a single dialog you can use the “New
Office Documents” dialog available at the top of the Start, Program Files
menu. If it’s not available on your system, you’ll need to go into
Add/Remove programs for Office 2007 and click on the “Office Shared Features”
install tree node and install the “New and Open Office Document Shortcuts”.
This dialog doesn’t filter templates by app, it shows all Office compatible
templates in the User and Workgroup Template locations.

Here’s one final example. Let’s say in your Workgroup Template path you
have 3 folders, named “Excel Workgroup Templates”, “Word Workgroup
Templates”, and “PPT Workgroup Templates”, all 3 folders contain templates
matching their folder name. In your User Template path you have 3 folders
“Word Invoices”, “Excel Invoices” and “PPT Invoices”, they too contain
templates matching their folder name. When you bring up My Templates from
Word File New, you’ll just see the following tab names,

| My Templates | Word Workgroup Templates | Word Invoices |

Now when you bring up the “New Office Documents” dialog from the top of the
Start, Program Files menu, you’ll see the following folder structure. Since
no app specific filter is applied, you see all templates and their top level
folders.

Hope that helps, talk to you soon,
John

AIANDAS

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Mar 7, 2007, 10:42:11 PM3/7/07

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WOW!!!!! Thanks.............I was kind of fixated with the contents of that
dialog. Now that I know it cannot be modified I can get on with my life ;-)
If I do have any more questions I'll let you know, but from the looks of
things it looks like we have exhausted everything. Thanks again!

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> The categories on the left nav portion of the File New dialog are from the
> Office Online website and you can't modify the contents. Your local
> templates are stored in the User and Workgroup Template locations, are
> all
> accessible from the "My Templates..." dialog. (To access this dialog you
> click on the "My Templates..." link located at the top of the left nav
> pane
> of the File New dialog for Word, Excel and PPT.)
>
> You can create your own "My Templates..." folder structure by organizing
> all
> your local templates in the User and Workgroup Template directories.
> Here's
> an example....Let's say you want to share a collection of Word Faxes,
> Calendars, Mailing Lists and Invoice templates and have them appear as

> separate tabs in the "My Templates." dialog
> 1. In the Workgroup Template location create 4 new directories called.

JohnbesMi...@discussions.microsoft.com

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Mar 8, 2007, 2:22:08 AM3/8/07

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I forgot to mention, you can actually set up a local server to create your
own Featured link section in the left nav. it would be similar to what your
see in the "Featured" link that already appears in the left nav, but with
your own content. If anyone is interested let me know and I'll put together
the details.

Thanks,
John

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Mar 8, 2007, 6:32:00 AM3/8/07

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Hi John,

Just to clarify one point (that you elaborated on later in the thread <g>)

While the 'New document' dialog box from
Office Button=>New=>My Templates
no longer includes the General and other categorized tabs
they are still available in the dialog that the
optional install 'New Office Document' shortcut takes you to
does still contain the General tab.
(osa.exe -n)

It wasn't clear in the original posting if it was that dialog or the Office Button=>New dialog that was being accessed.

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Hi, The "My Templates" File New dialog no longer contains a "General" tab.
Blank templates that previously appeared in the General tab are now displayed
at the top of the new File New dialog in the area entitled "Blank and
Recent". (Recently accessed templates will show here also.)

The File New top left nav link, "Installed Templates.." shows all templates
copied to your system during Office 2007 setup.

The Template Categories listed at the bottom of the File New left nav are
all from Office Online.

The "My Templates.." dialog will show all your local templates from the User
and Workgroup template locations. If you want tabs to show up in the "My
Templates..." directory, it really easy, just do the following..
1. Create one or more directories at the root of your User and/or
Workgroup template folder. Each of these top level directories will then
correspond to a tab in the your "My Templates..." dialog.
2. Place as many templates as you'd like in these top level folders. If
you don't copy any compatible documents in the folders, the tab will not show
up when you open the "My Templates..." dialog.

Hopes this helps,
John >>
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Mar 8, 2007, 2:56:38 PM3/8/07

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Hi Bob, The File New dialog with the General Tab is available from Start -
Program Files, the shortcut is called "New Microsoft Office Document". If it
doesn't appear on top of Program Files, users can add it in from Add/Remove
programs. Its in the "Office Shared Features" install tree node and the
install option is called "New and Open Microsfot Office Document Shortcuts."

Thanks,
John