MS Word Question -- about templates

[Jonathan West]

>
> Here comes the question. Six months from now, long after the temp has
> finished his work and gone away, coworkers may retrieve Word document
> from the repository to save to their computers to revise. For style
> integrity, should I train my coworkers to attach the server-based
> template to the file before they revise? Will doing so help to maintain
> consistent formatting styles? Does simply "attaching" the server
> template via Tools > Templates and Add ins > [navigate to server
> template] ensure that the revised file uses the server templates styles,
> or do we also need to click the Organize button and copy template styles
> to the file.

If the server-based version of the template is in a folder pointed to by the
User Templates folder or Workgroup Templates folder (but not subfolders of
them) it will be automatically attached provided the original template is no
longer available. Word attempts to automatically attach templates in the
following order

- The template file in the original location when the document was last
saved
- A template file of the same name in the User templates or workgroup
templates folder
- A template file of the same name in the same folder as the document

If none of these can be found, normal.dot is attached.

Regards
Jonathan West

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