Re: Template reference lost after new document created and closed

Here is the situation.

I can save the document to ANY path except the MyDocuments folder. If
I save it to the MyDocuments folder the template detaches from the
document. If I save it to ANY other folder it retains the link to the
template.

Now the reason behind it all!!!

1. The MyDocuments folder has an old version of the template

2. If it is the exact same version, it attaches to the template in the
same path, rather than the original location.

3. If it is an OLD template version, Word stuffs up and does not
attach to the original template, it tries to attach to the one in the
same path as the document, and fails THEN does NOT attach to the
correct template that is in a different folder.


Now I know this situation should not come up, however I was about to
throw 3 days worth of work because it appeard my template was
corrupted in some way. I had a lot of junk files in MyDocuments and
in the multipudes of files, was an old version of the template.


Now you could use this to your advantage if you wanted to create
documents that detached from their templates, but heck you can do that
anyway with the AttachedTemplate object.

Well I'll be!!!!!!!!
.

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