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MS Office Forum / Word / Menus and Toolbars / September 2004Removing/hiding Office Templates from the template list
Hi, sorry if it's the wrong area but when I go file new from templates, I get all the tabs for the office Word Templates which come with Office as well as my custom ones. I'm using Word XP. How to I hide the office template tabs and only show my own template tabs? Kaylene If you don't want the "installed" templates available, the only way to get rid of them is to uninstall them. Go to Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs, select Office XP, click Change, and choose Add or Remove Features. Find the templates and set them to Not Available. If there are any of them that you think you might ever want to use, you might want to create a Microsoft Templates subfolder in your User Templates folder (which will create a Microsoft Templates tab in the File New dialog) and copy those templates to that folder before uninstalling. One caveat: when you uninstall all the templates, among those that you lose are the Macros10.dot (?) and Support.dot templates, which are installed in a Macros folder (not in the Templates folder with the rest). You may want to be careful to copy these elsewhere before uninstalling.  SignatureSuzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > Hi, sorry if it's the wrong area but when I go file new from templates, I get all the > tabs for the office Word Templates which come with Office as well as my custom ones. > I'm using Word XP. > How to I hide the office template tabs and only show my own template tabs? > Kaylene Thanks Suzanne, I'll look into it tonight. Kaylene >-----Original Message----- >If you don't want the "installed" templates available, the only way to get [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > >. Followed your instructions and everything is as I want it now. I've saved the office templates in the my personal template area under MS Office templates. I saved the Support.dot template but did not locate a Macros10.dot or any Macros*.dot. Once again thank you. Kaylene > Thanks Suzanne, I'll look into it tonight. > Kaylene [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > to the newsgroup so >>all may benefit. I wasn't sure about the Macros*.dot, as I can't find one on my system, either. I know there was one in Word 2002. SignatureSuzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > Followed your instructions and everything is as I want it now. I've saved the office > templates in the my personal template area under MS Office templates. I saved the [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > to the newsgroup so > >>all may benefit. Maybe they just dropped that one. I even checked the work computer just in case. Word in Office XP is Word 2002 (maybe it had something to do with SP3). If I ever need help in Word, I'll visit this NG again. Thanks for your assistance, the previous versions were so much simplier to remove the extra tabs, you just moved the files. It didn't occur to me to just simply uninstall them. Kaylene >I wasn't sure about the Macros*.dot, as I can't find one on my system, > either. I know there was one in Word 2002. The new behavior of templates started in Office 2000, which was the first to distinguish "Advertised and Installed" templates ("Advertised" are the ones set to Install on First Use) from User Templates and Workgroup Templates (see "OFF2000: How Office 2000 Manages Templates" at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=240216). I agree that the method used in Word 97 and earlier was easier, but I'm sure there was a good reason for the new arrangement. SignatureSuzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > Maybe they just dropped that one. I even checked the work computer just in case. > Word in Office XP is Word 2002 (maybe it had something to do with SP3). [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > >I wasn't sure about the Macros*.dot, as I can't find one on my system, > > either. I know there was one in Word 2002. I'm sure there was. Thanks for the article. Kaylene > The new behavior of templates started in Office 2000, which was the first to > distinguish "Advertised and Installed" templates ("Advertised" are the ones [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Word 97 and earlier was easier, but I'm sure there was a good reason for the > new arrangement. |
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