>>Hi,
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>>I am distributing example MS-WORD templates w/my application. The templates contain bookmarks that my code will use to insert data when creating documents.
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>>OC, my normal.dot has formatting set that * I * want to use, that i don't necessarily want the end user to have in their documents (for instance, my normal style paragraph has "6 pt. after" set).
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>>How to i set up the templates so that it doesn't reflect my normal.dot? do i have to change normal.dot to create the templates?
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>>Thanks...j
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>Hi Jill, long time no see!
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>You can have additional templates, other than "normal.dot". For example, you can have a template called "example1.dot", which you send to the end-user.
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>To create the template, create a new document, and when you save it, save it as type "Template" (or is it "Word Template"? - I have it in Spanish here).
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>The templates are stored in the folder specified under "Tools | Options | File locations | Personal templates".
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>You can either distribute the template to the end-user as is ("example1.dot"), or rename it, overwriting the user's normal.dot template. I suggest keeping a separate template, so as not to interfere with the users' normal activity (outside of your program). In any case, the template should be saved in the template folder on the user's computer.
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>For automation, the command to create a document has the option of specifying a template.

Hi Hilmar, thanks for the responses...I've been working hard on a huge project and am looking forward to installing in June (Palau), July (Marshall Islands) and August (FSM - Federated States of Micronesia). I've been lurking around here, but have been pretty quiet.

I realize that this question sounded pretty dumb. I didn't state my problem correctly, i think.

I do set up templates for my users for a number of letters. I put bookmarks in them and they can write the text around the values i plop into the bookmark locations.

When run the app and create a document from the template on MY system, it looks like it did when i created it. When i run the app and create a document on someone else's system (different Normal.dot), the completed document is sometimes formatted differently. I'll have to play w/it a bit more....J