Hyperlink to templates

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Lisa

i have set up a word document that is full of hyperlinks
to word templates, but if i go via the hyperlink it opens
the tempalte as a document, so you can edit it. How can i
make it so that the hyperlink opens the template as a
template. I have tried making the template a shortcut and
hyperlinking to the shortcut my typing in the file
location manually, but it still doesn't like it. what can
i do?
 
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Charles Kenyon

You can't use hyperlinks to create new documents based on templates, at
least not directly. Look on the MVP FAQ site for information on using macros
and macrobutton fields for this purpose. If you want, I can email you a
document that has such macros and fields.
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Charles Kenyon

See the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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Beth Melton

If I'm following Lisa correctly, she is encountering the reverse
problem - her links to templates are resulting in a new document based
on the template.

Lisa, did you try my recent suggestion in the office.misc newsgroup?

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Lisa

It is as Charles says, i am having trouble though trying to create a macros as i have never created one before, tried looking at the site Charles suggested but was not much help to a novice like myself. any help would be good thanks
 
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Charles Kenyon

Hi Lisa,

Send me an email at [email protected] and I'll send you a
document that has the macros and macrobuttons to do this. You'll have to
take "remove" and "nospam" out of the email address, though.
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Charles Kenyon

See the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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Lisa said:
It is as Charles says, i am having trouble though trying to create a
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macros as i have never created one before, tried looking at the site Charles
suggested but was not much help to a novice like myself. any help would be
good thanks
 
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