J
JMorris
Greetings.
Any advice on the use of Word 2002 templates would be helpful.
KEY ISSUE: The templates are very difficult to use and there seems to
be .DOT corruption. Word freezes a lot.
PLATFORM: Word 2002 on XP. All patches and service packs. Lots of
memory.
EDITING GOAL: Want to create a standard template which will be used
again and again. I edit a special document that defines the template
(short, but examples of all styles). Then each new document will have
this standard template attached.
DETAILS: I have done everything that various posters have suggested
in terms of making Word stable (i.e. turning off "auto update on
styles and templates" etc.) Template is stored in it's own special
directory not on C:.
PROBLEM: How do you use the template "organizer" to make sure that
all the standard styles are available in a legacy document? New
documents are one issue, but retrofitting the new styles to an
existing document causes problems. It is hard to delete old styles
(sometimes "delete" is greyed out on a created style). And the some
specific new styles cause Word to freeze when transfering to the new
document.
SUMMARY: You'd think that what I want to do is pretty simple. Make a
standard template available to multiple documents, both new documents
and legacy documents. It is understood that the template is not
applied automatically, but that once the styles are made available to
a legacy or new document, one can select all instances of a given
object and tag them with the appropriate new style. At several points
along this path, Microsoft Word 2002 fails. It freezes; it is unclear
how it works. It's quite disappointing actually.
WHAT ABOUT 2003? Will the new version of the software work better?
WHAT KIND OF GUIDANCE?
Many many thanks. I know from other postings that any answers will be
helpful to a lot of people.
Thanks, John
P.S. FYI: HERE ARE THINGS I HAVE DONE ALREADY
1. Massive file cleaning operation once a month to get rid of "locked
temporary files".
2. Ensure to turn off "canvas" in Draw <-- really important -- AND
items created with it are corrupt.
3. Ensure updated video drivers.
4. REMOVE VOICE & HANDWRITING RECOGNITION FROM OFFICE INSTALL.
5. Turn off Norton Office plugin.
6. Erase normal.dot and allow for clean rebuild of this file.
7. Tools, Options, Save --> turn ON the Prompt to save Normal
template.
8. Never save when resources are low.
9. Don't make changes to Normal.dot(do the erase thing and have it
recreated)
10. Don't use Fast Saves, Versions, Master documents, Document maps.
11. Don't use "auto updates on styles"
12. Don't user Macros.
13. Detect & Repair Word
14. Turn off embed linguistic data (won't stay off)
15. Turn off embed smart tags (won't stay off)
16. Adobe update issue (printer driver??? -- what about Win2PDF???)
Any advice on the use of Word 2002 templates would be helpful.
KEY ISSUE: The templates are very difficult to use and there seems to
be .DOT corruption. Word freezes a lot.
PLATFORM: Word 2002 on XP. All patches and service packs. Lots of
memory.
EDITING GOAL: Want to create a standard template which will be used
again and again. I edit a special document that defines the template
(short, but examples of all styles). Then each new document will have
this standard template attached.
DETAILS: I have done everything that various posters have suggested
in terms of making Word stable (i.e. turning off "auto update on
styles and templates" etc.) Template is stored in it's own special
directory not on C:.
PROBLEM: How do you use the template "organizer" to make sure that
all the standard styles are available in a legacy document? New
documents are one issue, but retrofitting the new styles to an
existing document causes problems. It is hard to delete old styles
(sometimes "delete" is greyed out on a created style). And the some
specific new styles cause Word to freeze when transfering to the new
document.
SUMMARY: You'd think that what I want to do is pretty simple. Make a
standard template available to multiple documents, both new documents
and legacy documents. It is understood that the template is not
applied automatically, but that once the styles are made available to
a legacy or new document, one can select all instances of a given
object and tag them with the appropriate new style. At several points
along this path, Microsoft Word 2002 fails. It freezes; it is unclear
how it works. It's quite disappointing actually.
WHAT ABOUT 2003? Will the new version of the software work better?
WHAT KIND OF GUIDANCE?
Many many thanks. I know from other postings that any answers will be
helpful to a lot of people.
Thanks, John
P.S. FYI: HERE ARE THINGS I HAVE DONE ALREADY
1. Massive file cleaning operation once a month to get rid of "locked
temporary files".
2. Ensure to turn off "canvas" in Draw <-- really important -- AND
items created with it are corrupt.
3. Ensure updated video drivers.
4. REMOVE VOICE & HANDWRITING RECOGNITION FROM OFFICE INSTALL.
5. Turn off Norton Office plugin.
6. Erase normal.dot and allow for clean rebuild of this file.
7. Tools, Options, Save --> turn ON the Prompt to save Normal
template.
8. Never save when resources are low.
9. Don't make changes to Normal.dot(do the erase thing and have it
recreated)
10. Don't use Fast Saves, Versions, Master documents, Document maps.
11. Don't use "auto updates on styles"
12. Don't user Macros.
13. Detect & Repair Word
14. Turn off embed linguistic data (won't stay off)
15. Turn off embed smart tags (won't stay off)
16. Adobe update issue (printer driver??? -- what about Win2PDF???)