Saving MS Word Templates

[Lectrician]

I use Microsoft Word 2000.

I have a template setup for use, and people use this.

When you exit word it offers to save changes to this template.

Although I have write-protected the file, I do not want word offering to save the template.

I have heard you can sto word doing this to the template, but cannot find out how.

Here is a link: http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?siteid=1&postid=3699155

Thanks for any help!

 

[David M58]

I recently wanted to have a Word template that I could use without being asked to save changes to the template when I exited Word. Here's what I did:

Removed the Read Only attribute from the file.
Started Word 2000.
Opened the template (.dot) file in Word.
Pressed Alt-F11 to open the Visual Basic Editor.
Pressed Ctrl-R to display the Project Explorer.
Double-clicked ThisDocument in the Project Explorer.
Entered the code below.

Private Sub Document_Close()
    ActiveDocument.Saved = True
End Sub

Pressed Ctrl-S to save the file.
Exited Word.
Set the Read Only attribute on the file.

Now, when I open the template in Word, and use it to complete a document, attempting to save the finished document always presents the Save As dialog, the template file does not get overwritten, and when I exit Word, it does not offer to save changes to the template.

This worked for me, but you may find a better solution.

 

[Lectrician]

Thanks.

I have tried this on my home laptop, and it works fine.

I remote desktoped into a work machine, and it does not work there for some reason.

I have tried everything!