Way to remove references to "installed" templates? how to avoid "installing" the rest to begin with?

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StargateFan - 30 May 2004 04:12 GMT

This is a long-standing pet peeve. In all the years and all the
contracts I've ever been sent on where Word is the standard, I find
that I never, ever use the installed templates. Out of all of them,
I've only ever needed one or two once or twice and have since made
copies of the modified ones. However, I do make tons of my own
templates and organize them in folders (which then show up as "tabs").

Even when I've removed or moved every single "installed" wizard and
template I've ever found, the tabs and references still annoyingly
appear. When I click on these last ones to use them (when looking to
see where they actually got installed), I've found they're just
references to templates and not the templates themselves as an install
box comes up.

How can I please get rid of all of these? In other words, what do I
do when installing Word or after installing Word after a
wipe/reinstall so that these don't appear _at_all_?

Pls advise and thanks. I need the valuable template dialogue box real
estate for the large amounts of templates I create myself.

Cheers!

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 30 May 2004 05:37 GMT

AFAIK, you cannot rid the built in File New dialog of the standard
templates. However, you could create a multipage userform that had the same
appearance and functionality with listboxes on each page that you populated
with your own templates.

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> This is a long-standing pet peeve. In all the years and all the
> contracts I've ever been sent on where Word is the standard, I find
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> Cheers!

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StargateFan - 31 May 2004 05:32 GMT

>AFAIK, you cannot rid the built in File New dialog of the standard
>templates. However, you could create a multipage userform that had the same
>appearance and functionality with listboxes on each page that you populated
>with your own templates.

Do you have a URL for this "multipage userform" technique?

Cheers!

(p.s., I used Graham's advice (next msg in this thread) about removing
the wizards and templates via the ADD/REMOVE programs route in the
control panel. It worked absolutely perfectly, so there is a way to
do this.)

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Jay Freedman - 31 May 2004 17:31 GMT

Doug's article on How to Create a Userform is at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms/CreateAUserForm.htm. That's just
an introductory article, and doesn't get into multipage issues.

One of the controls you can place on a userform from the Toolbox is a
multipage control. Once you insert one, press F1 and read the Help
topic to find out how to control it. For more stuff, search the
newsgroup archive with

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=multipage%20vba&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&as_ugr
oup=microsoft.public.word.*&lr=lang_en&hl=en

>>AFAIK, you cannot rid the built in File New dialog of the standard
>>templates. However, you could create a multipage userform that had the same
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>control panel. It worked absolutely perfectly, so there is a way to
>do this.)

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Graham Mayor - 30 May 2004 08:40 GMT

I am not sure what Doug was thinking of here, but you certainly can get rid
of all the installed templates - by uninstalling them through Windows add
and remove programs - then changing the setup for Word/Office. This will
leave behind just the General tab, containing four (on recent Word versions)
icons, which are integral to Word.

See http://www.gmayor.com/zips/fileopen.gif

You can create your own tabs and your own templates - as you appear to have
discovered.

See http://www.gmayor.com/Template_Locations.htm

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> This is a long-standing pet peeve. In all the years and all the
> contracts I've ever been sent on where Word is the standard, I find
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> Cheers!

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StargateFan - 31 May 2004 05:30 GMT

>I am not sure what Doug was thinking of here, but you certainly can get rid
>of all the installed templates - by uninstalling them through Windows add
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>See http://www.gmayor.com/Template_Locations.htm

Graham, this worked wonderfully! From now on, after an hdd
wipe/reintall, when installing Office again, will make sure I select
that wizards and templates not be installed.

I found that copying all the templates and then moving the copies into
one folder did the job for me. This way, if one remote day I need one
of the default templates, I can pull one up but they won't take up
valuable real estate in the FILE NEW dialogue box.

Thanks so much for this!

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StargateFan - 31 May 2004 17:15 GMT

>>I am not sure what Doug was thinking of here, but you certainly can get rid
>>of all the installed templates - by uninstalling them through Windows add
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>Thanks so much for this!

Just a post-followup followup <g>!

I had one tab left in the NEW FILE dialogue box. This was
disconcerting, but they I realized that maybe more than what is found
in the "wizards/templates" feature under Word was installed there so I
would need to look for other possible sources.

I looked at the tab under Word that was left and it had DIRECT MAIL or
something in it and of the 4 wizard files there, one also had "direct
mail" in the title. That made life easier. I looked up CD2 from the
Office suite as I know that's where Publisher is and when I looked at
what there was there to remove, there were some entries that also had
the words "direct mail" in them. Once I went through the process of
removing those, all the extra Word tabs were gone!

(I made screenshots of what I removed so that next time I reinstall,
I'll avoid installing them in the first place since it'll be easy to
remember not to install these for Word but not so easy when installing
Publisher!)

Just thought I'd mention this as it might happen to other newbies such
as myself. So the source of Word templates doesn't always just come
from under the Word option while installing.

Thanks for everyone's help! Can't believe how uncluttered everything
is now without all that extra stuff!! It's wonderful! Yet all the
physical templates I copied before doing the removal are safely on my
partitioned D drive in case I ever need them one day.

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Graham Mayor - 01 Jun 2004 07:52 GMT

You will never use those templates :)

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>>> I am not sure what Doug was thinking of here, but you certainly can
>>> get rid of all the installed templates - by uninstalling them
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> physical templates I copied before doing the removal are safely on my
> partitioned D drive in case I ever need them one day.

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StargateFan - 02 Jun 2004 02:54 GMT

>You will never use those templates :)

<g> True, but they do serve a purpose. When I'm looking to make up a
template, I often look at an existing one to get an idea.

Also, I do use the calendar wizard and a couple of others, every once
in a blue moon. But those I have saved with the template I've
created.

p.s., I did the same at work and it's absolutely wonderful to have
such an uncluttered template area. I had the same thing happen,
though, where removing the "wizards and templates" for Word alone
didn't remove everything. There was a language pack installed, too,
so a whole bunch of French language templates were removed only when I
did the same to the language pack!

Thanks!

>>>> I am not sure what Doug was thinking of here, but you certainly can
>>>> get rid of all the installed templates - by uninstalling them
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>> physical templates I copied before doing the removal are safely on my
>> partitioned D drive in case I ever need them one day.

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