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Dave - 25 Feb 2004 00:05 GMT

I have a LOT of documents that were created on our old
server from templates on that server. Now that we have
copied all of our data over to the new server (Which is a
different name), it takes upwards of 10 minutes to open a
file regardless of the OS or CPU speed! We found that the
cause is that under tools, templates and add-ins, the
link to the old server is in there! If we take it out,
the document opens very quickly.

My question:
Does anyone know of a tool that would take this out for
all of the docuements? There are well over 100 of them,
and at 10 minutes per document, that is a lot of time.

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Charles Kenyon - 25 Feb 2004 01:11 GMT

Nope. Your best bet is to create a macro that goes through the documents in
a folder one at a time and attaches said documents to normal.dot (or if you
like, to the correct template in the correct network folder, but that is
harder). Then start it running before you leave for the night and hope it is
done when you return in the morning.

Otherwise, you can greatly shorten the 10 minutes by disconnecting from your
network but continuing to run Word while you attach the files to normal.dot.

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> I have a LOT of documents that were created on our old
> server from templates on that server. Now that we have
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> all of the docuements? There are well over 100 of them,
> and at 10 minutes per document, that is a lot of time.

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