Word 2010 - File New and Templates

[Mo]

Hi,

(posting this here as well as in the 2010 beta forum - I know from
experience that it is here I get the answers )

Are there any new possibilities to structure your templates in the File New
dialog? The need is obvious when you have several hundreds of differnet
templates.

One good solution would be that an underlying folder structure shows in the
dialog. (Like the first level in the old fileNew dialog)

Another question is that even though you under Options, Advanced, File
Locations set a location for "Workgroup Templates", the templates are not
shown in the "main Window" in the File New-dialog - you have to go to "My
templates" and then the "old" style filenew-dialog is shown.

Any comments are highly appreciated.

/Peeter

 

[Jay Freedman]

My solution for this is rather retro, the same as for Word 2007:
customize the Quick Access Toolbar to add the "New Document or
Template" button, which is in the Commands Not In the Ribbon category.
That instantly brings up the old (Word 2003) FileNew dialog. I hope MS
never removes that dialog...

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[Mo]

Thanks for the quick reply,

but I'd really want to use the new FileNew interface with a
structured/categorized view.

/P

 

[Jay Freedman]

Sorry, no, there is no such view. If you click the "My templates" icon
in the top line of the FileNew page, you'll get the same (old) dialog.
There's no sign that Microsoft has anything else in the works, and at
this late date it's unlikely that they would add anything that
complex. You could enter a suggestion in Connect, but it would
probably be postponed for consideration in Office 15.

If you're running Office on Windows 7, you could create a library in
the Computer application to combine all the locations where you store
templates. That would make it easy to search and preview the
templates, and double-clicking one would start a new document based on
that template.

 

[Mo]

Thanks for your effort. I'll check your suggestion about creating a library...
/P