Adam, By design MS Office Templates and template sub-folders are supposed to merge together when offering the 'File|New' document template dialog. This would allow you to have 'Workgroup' or company-wide standard templates along with the user having their own personal templates.
The problem arises when you have more than one template document with the same name. In the merge process, the 'User Templates' take precedence over 'Workgroup Templates' like the Normal.dot. If you want to 'lock down' a standard set of templates for use by all, you don't have to remove each set of 'User Templates' that are offending, you can make sure that the 'User Templates' directory setting (within the 'Tools|Options File Locations tab') is pointing to where your common templates exist on the network. Then don't have any value in the 'Workgroup Templates' setting (which is the installation default). Now you need to figure how to get each users 'Tools|Options File Location tab' settings for 'User Templates' and 'Workgroup Templates' set up to the 'company standard'. There are two automated methods that you can implement through a login script entry. One involves standardizing all your MS Office settings. There is a utility that you can download from the Office 2000 website O2KTools set that would allow an Admin to setup office then modify all the optional settings (including 'User Template' and 'Workgroup Template' locations. You then run this utility that saves these settings to a file that and then be used to apply those settings to anyone who runs the utility with this file as a passed parameter. This may be overkill and overly restrictive. The other method would be to investigate the registry settings in HKLU that correspond to the file location values for 'User Templates' and 'Workgroup Templates'. Then your login script could have a line in it that always sets these two values (assuring consistency). Please note that all the settings for personalizing the O2K environment are kept in the HKLU section of the registry, and therefore can be changed by user at run time. Good luck. drew ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
