I work on a helpdesk and have a user on Word 2002 XP who wants to store a template with Fill-in prompts on a network drive, not in the Templates folder on her C drive.  When we open the file, the prompts won't display - only if we store it in the templates folder and use File New.

Cindy M (MVP from Switzerland) posted this on another site:

Hi Brian,

I think the problem you're running into here is that when you hyperlink to a
file you're actually *opening* the file. Since the automatic display of
Fillin field prompts only triggers when you create a new document from a
template, and not when you open the template, you won't get the Fillin fields
automatically. This means you'd need to use a macro, either to create a new
document (instead of a hyperlink), or to force the field updates when you
click the button.

If you don't want macros, then Ctrl+A, F9 should do what you need :-)

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Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

********  I do want a macro or piece of code that I can store in the master version on the network, and will "trick" Word into thinking the file has been opened from the template folder.  Can anyone help me with this please?  We have mucked about with this for almost a month!

Many thanks!
LG