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Mike Busch - 13 Jul 2004 01:07 GMT

Is there a way to set a template properties so that when
a user opens it, they can only "Save as", and not "Save".
Seems like everytime I set one up, someone opens the
template and saves it as a new .dot with new data. Thanks
in advance.

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Doug Robbins - 13 Jul 2004 02:17 GMT

The best thing would be to educate the users to use File>New and select the
template. Another thing that you could to do is set the Read Only attribute
for the templates

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> Is there a way to set a template properties so that when
> a user opens it, they can only "Save as", and not "Save".
> Seems like everytime I set one up, someone opens the
> template and saves it as a new .dot with new data. Thanks
> in advance.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 13 Jul 2004 03:34 GMT

Users should not be *opening* the templates. They should be saved in a
template folder, and users should be using File | New to create new
documents based on the templates.

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