Threads Replies Last Post 4 Pages: 1  2  3  4   script for MS Word to change Workgroup template location An apology if this has been asked before. I am an admin for a workgroup with 20 clients running Office 2003. I would like to have a script that changes each client MS Word file location for Workgroup template without having to physically carry this work out on each machine. This script can be either emailed to each user as an attachment or what would be better is run from a central server... 1 8/9/2006 10:13:13 AM FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - please read before posting - unofficial August Posting FAQ = Frequently Asked Questions - unofficial This FAQ is posted weekly.- more or less Please save yourself some time by reading it before posting to the news group. --- BEFORE POSTING ANYTHING PLEASE READ THESE --- http://www.mvps.org/word/FindHelp/Posting.htm http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://users.tpg.com.au/bzyhjr/liszt.html Reading these articles will h... 1 8/7/2006 4:41:54 PM FAQ - Frequently Aske Questions - please read before posting - unofficial July posting FAQ = Frequently Asked Questions - unofficial This FAQ is posted weekly.- more or less Please save yourself some time by reading it before posting to the news group. --- BEFORE POSTING ANYTHING PLEASE READ THESE --- http://www.mvps.org/word/FindHelp/Posting.htm http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://users.tpg.com.au/bzyhjr/liszt.html Reading these articles will h... 3 7/26/2006 3:15:13 PM Word and netowrk path to templates Hello! I'm using Word from Office 12 Beta 2. Maybe I'm blind, but I cannot find a place, where I can type a path to my company templates. For example: Word 11 in preferences had a place. I typed there \\myserver\templates. Then in templates I had all .dot's (about 40). Now I can only add one by one. Is there any possibility to add only path? Leszek ... 3 7/10/2006 12:58:34 PM style following paragraph not working. Using Word 2003: Select heading 1 style . Type some text. Then after I pressing the enter key The next paragraph uses the same style of heading 1. Based on the settings of the style heading 1 the next paragraph should be using the normal style. No matter what I set for the next paragraph style after pressing the enter key I always get the same style as the previous paragraph. How do I cha... 1 6/23/2006 4:22:02 PM FAQ - Frequently Aske Questions - please read before posting - unofficial June posting FAQ = Frequently Asked Questions - unofficial This FAQ is posted weekly.- more or less Please save yourself some time by reading it before posting to the news group. --- BEFORE POSTING ANYTHING PLEASE READ THESE --- http://www.mvps.org/word/FindHelp/Posting.htm http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://users.tpg.com.au/bzyhjr/liszt.html Reading these articles will h... 2 6/23/2006 4:18:05 PM temp files I get a constant build up of ~wsomething.tmp files when I use word from office xp. I save my files when I close word. I have auto save turned on and allow fast save. I don't understand why the tmp files don't go away after I close word. and how do I change settings so these files don't keep piling up. thanks jon ... 1 6/8/2006 5:48:55 AM FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - please read before posting - unofficial May posting FAQ = Frequently Asked Questions - unofficial This FAQ is posted weekly.- more or less Please save yourself some time by reading it before posting to the news group. --- BEFORE POSTING ANYTHING PLEASE READ THESE --- http://www.mvps.org/word/FindHelp/Posting.htm http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://users.tpg.com.au/bzyhjr/liszt.html Reading these articles will h... 3 5/30/2006 6:57:02 PM Page setup automation We just got a new printer in the office. Some of our old documents, however, have settings for an old printer that conflict with the new printer (eg. paper bins. The old printer plain paper was Drawer 2 and the new one is drawer 5). Whenever one of the old documents are opened, the old printer drawer 2 setting is still there instead of the new printer setting of drawer 5 (plain paper)... 1 5/24/2006 9:42:01 PM sharing devices Hi: I have PC#1 with windows XP, PC#2 with Windows 98 and laptop with windows XP Pro. PC#1 currently is connected to the net via ethernet cable to cable modem. I want to network all 3 together wirelessly and also share the printer on PC#1 with the other 2 and all three share hard drives. If I buy a wireless hub and wireless devices for PC#1, PC#2 and the laptop how would I share the ... 2 5/23/2006 10:35:15 PM sharing devices Hi: I have PC#1 with windows XP, PC#2 with Windows 98 and laptop with windows XP Pro. PC#1 currently is connected to the net via ethernet cable to cable modem. I want to network all 3 together wirelessly and also share the printer on PC#1 with the other 2 and all three share hard drives. If I buy a wireless hub and wireless devices for PC#1, PC#2 and the laptop how would I share the ... 1 5/23/2006 9:25:23 PM Word will not save if Outlook is in use I am using WORD and Outlook 2002. If I use Outlook with the option "Word to edit email messages" - then If I open WORD and try to save a document - Word just shuts down. If I then re-open WORD - on this second time - I can proceed to save documents. A very strange behviour. Anyone else come across this? I am using the same configuration and version on other computers and there a... 1 5/18/2006 8:11:04 PM *Why the pain?* Hello Wide Windows World, You know, I was at the Genius Bar of an Apple Store the other day. I own three Macs, and knew nothing about networking them all together (other than how to receive an AirPort signal on each. In Windows speak, that's WiFi - 802.11 b, or 802.11 g). I was absolutely flabbergasted to learn that within less than ten minutes, I got a full lesson on how to networ... 1 5/14/2006 10:31:02 AM Visable words on screen but do not want them to print Hi Word 2003 Is it possible to have text that you can see when the word document is on screen but doesn't show when you print. Thanks... 2 5/9/2006 8:18:58 PM Word Freezes when Opening for first time In Word 2003 whenever a user logs in for the first time it will lockup the application for awhile and then eventually it will start to work again. After that initial lockup the program will open up fine from that point on. If you delete or rename the normal.dot the same thing will happen. It seems like its locking up when either searching for the normal.dot or created a new normal.dot... 3 5/9/2006 12:42:03 PM file open in memory Question: I have users accessing word files on a server. They open the document to view it. Then close it out by clicking on the red X. The file seems to stay open the ~filename stays there and doesn't close out even though the file has been closed from the users workstation? Any reason why? The file exists on a Windows 2003 server and the user has Windows XP and Office XP Tha... 1 5/5/2006 2:33:58 PM printer icon in active taskbar Hi I use to have an icon appearing in my active taskbar bottom right whenever I was using my printer even in networking from my laptop (my printer was attached previously to my desktop) but now it does not appear anymore so I can't access the spooler to stop a job in progress. I have try to find where to get it back but with no success yet . Even try to reinstall the spooler in administr... 1 5/1/2006 1:53:20 PM Word documents are slow to open after retiring Template server After retiring a Server containing our Word Templates our Word document take 5 - 10 minutes to open. I originally tried a script to change the template path, but this didn't work as I have discovered that the Path to the workgroup templates is via a mapped drive and is correctly pointing to the new server. I have verified this in the header of the document (opening it in notepad). Some... 3 4/26/2006 7:17:53 PM FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - please read before posting - unofficial April posting FAQ = Frequently Asked Questions - unofficial This FAQ is posted weekly.- more or less Please save yourself some time by reading it before posting to the news group. --- BEFORE POSTING ANYTHING PLEASE READ THESE --- http://www.mvps.org/word/FindHelp/Posting.htm http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm Reading these articles will help you get a quick and meaningful response... 3 4/23/2006 11:22:16 PM Disable update of date field Hello, I have hundreds of Word documents that have been created and the {date} field will always change to today's date when those documents are opened. I also have twenty machines on the network that have Word installed that this happens on as well. Is there a way to disable Word from updating only the {date} field in the hundreds of documents so that if the user views or prints out ... 4 4/23/2006 3:33:30 AM for sale: internetDotComs.com domain for sale: internetdotcoms.com http://www.afternic.com/name.php?id=11866440 ... 1 4/16/2006 1:45:29 PM Restrictions of Net broadband I have a intranet at home with 5 computers. I use XP Pro SP2 and a Netgear Router model MR814V2. My provider gives me 2 Mb band. Frequently I get stuck because my daughter downloads many many applications and other band consuming softwares and she takes almost all band spaces of my Intranet. Even Outlook does not work because of her. I do not want to cut her off but want to impose her wit... 2 4/14/2006 6:34:11 PM auto text and auto correct I recently purchased a new computer. I have a TON of auto correct and auto text stored on the old computer. How do I get them to the new computer without having to start from square one inputting all the information. Thanks! -- barb... 2 4/10/2006 2:20:08 PM Word 2003 in computer memory I noted lately that my Word ( Office 2003 ) has been automatically placed in the memory of my computer without no apparent reason. Any hint how can I avoid such fact, which makes memory crowded ?? ... 2 4/5/2006 3:38:22 PM FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - please read before posting - unofficial March posting FAQ = Frequently Asked Questions - unofficial This FAQ is posted weekly.- more or less Please save yourself some time by reading it before posting to the news group. --- BEFORE POSTING ANYTHING PLEASE READ THESE --- http://www.mvps.org/word/FindHelp/Posting.htm http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm Reading these articles will help you get a quick and meaningful response... 4 3/27/2006 12:44:56 PM 4 Pages: 1  2  3  4