Shared User-Created Document Templates?

[Jeff Zeitlin]

I work for a large organization using Office 2003 under Windows XP SP3
on workstations in an Active Directory network. Currently, our
workstations have Office 2003 installed individually on each
workstation. This is not inherently a problem, and there are sound
reasons for keeping it this way (rather than storing the executables on
network shares).

However, the standard templates are also stored on the individual
workstations.

Users - correctly - do not have the right to write to the local hard
disk; the user profiles and documents are stored on network servers.
Many users create organization-specific document templates, and then
have to manually save them to either organization network shares or to
their personal folders, since attempting to save the new template to the
default location will fail (because the users have insufficient rights
to the template folder). What we'd like to do is set things up so that
there is a common organizational share for templates, and configure Word
on the workstations so that the default location for saving new
TEMPLATES ONLY - NOT DOCUMENTS - is the organizational share. Documents
should continue to default to saving to the users' My Documents folder
(which has been relocated to the network server). Also, if the user
wants to open a new document from a template, the dialogue for this
should display both the standard templates and the organization-specific
templates.

Is there a way to do this? If so, how?

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

See the article "Distributing macros to other users" at:
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/DistributeMacros.htm

I think that you should allow the users to save to the local templates
folder and you if you need to prevent users from changing the organizational
templates, they should have the read only attribute set or other protection
be applied to them.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

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