Re: Template open/save behavior

Although some might like to classify it as a 'bug', you can't as it was done
intentionally. It is actually a design change which I believe took place in
Office X (not sure 'cause I never used X very much). Why it was done I have
no idea.

Regards |:>)


On 2/10/06 8:12 PM, in article
1139620367.237718.321370@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "eae@xxxxxxxxxxxx"
<eae@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It used to be that when Word opened a document classified as a
"template", no matter where it was, it would open it as a new dicument
named "Document n". You could not close it without saving it, and you
could not save it without giving it a name and location. That is,
"Save as" was the only available option.

With Word 2004, if you go to the "Project Gallery" and select a
template from there, it works exactly that way. However, if you go to
the finder, locate the template, or an alias of it, and double-click
that file, Word opens it, but not as an unnamed document, but as the
template itself. If you alter it then close it, you are asked if you
want to save it, and if you do, you save your changes in the template.
You are not forced to "Save as".

I tried changing the attibutes of a template to "Read only" which does
protect it, but you clearly see the difference - it's a document called
"template name (read only)" instead of "document n".

Am I missing something, or has Microsoft made a significant change in
template behavior, or is this a bug?


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