Preserving a long document as a template

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Wallace

I have a long document (100+ pages) in Word 2003 in which the styles are now
set. I want to preserve this document so that no new styles --- whether by
design or user-created through direct formatting --- can be added. I plan to
save this document as a template and protect the styles. Any new styles would
be made by me and only on the template.

Is there anything I should be aware of or should do to accomplish this? Thanks
 
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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

Why as a template? What are other users intended to be able to do with the
document?

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Wallace

Eventually, nothing. I was looking for a way to preserve the existing styles
and prevent direct formatting and the addition of any user-created styles. I
suppose that can be done by using the protection feature in W2003, but I also
wanted to protect the underlying document structure, so I thought saving the
document as a template would do that.
 
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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

The purpose of templates is to provide a uniform basis for the repeated
production of documents so I hardly think that saving as a template is
applicable to what you aim to do.

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Hope this helps.

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services on a paid consulting basis.

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Graham Mayor

What you want to do is not possible. Any document you allow a user to see
can be altered.

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