Re: Making a Microsoft Word 2004 document from an existing template
Re: Making a Microsoft Word 2004 document from an existing template
- Subject: Re: Making a Microsoft Word 2004 document from an existing template
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 00:59:49 -0700
On 4/15/05 10:10 PM, "Shane Stanley" <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 08:47:19 -0700, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
>
>> You can still do it the "old" pre-2004 way using 'do Visual Basic':
>
> Or perhaps using "open as document" followed by a "save as"?
No. 'open as document' is actually what MacWord does anyway with 'open':
both of them open the template for editing - as a template. But if you try
to 'save as' as a document, you get an error that templates cannot be saved
as documents. (Try it in the UI - same thing.) It's rue - templates
evidently have a different structure. 'open as document' is inherited from
Win Word, where a regular 'open' actually automatically opens a new document
(like opening from the Project Gallery). In Windows, double-clicking a
template opens a new document in the UI. It's how templates were meant to
behave. (So 'open as document' is needed to open the template itself -
really 'as a template'!) It seems that somewhere back in Word 5 or so,
someone decided that because Mac Word could use the Mac "Stationery" format
- which opens a copy of a document - templates didn't need to behave the
same way. Strange, and very annoying for people trying to import .dot
templates from Windows. There have been a lot of complaints about it - they
might change it in the future.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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