Opening document templates via hyperlinks...

[The Outlaw Dozy Wales]

Hi.

I have some documents stored on a shared network drive with lists of
hyperlinks to assorted documents. The problem I am having is that if the
linked document is a document template (*.dot) then Word opens the actual
template rather than making a copy of it.

How can I make Word open a copy of a doc via hyperlinks?

Thanks...

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

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I have some documents stored on a shared network drive with lists of
hyperlinks to assorted documents. The problem I am having is that if the
linked document is a document template (*.dot) then Word opens the actual
template rather than making a copy of it.

How can I make Word open a copy of a doc via hyperlinks?

You can't. Hyperlinks do one thing: open something else.

This would require a macro (use a Macrobutton field instead of a hyperlink)
to force creating a new document from a template.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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