Re: Slow loading templates list

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Don't know the cause. A potential solution with other advantages would be to
incorporate a command in the user login to the network that makes a local
copy of the workgroup folders (still designated as workgroup folders) and
updates it. Otherwise, one user having a document based on a template open
can lock the template from changes made by another user. Under no
circumstances should the user templates folder be shared (the folder that
has normal.dot in it). If you are trying to share normal.dot, take a look at
the alternatives at http://addbalance.com/word/movetotemplate.htm for
step-by-step instructions on moving / sharing / copying / backing-up
customizations including AutoText, AutoCorrect, keyboard assignments,
toolbars, macros, etc.
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Charles Kenyon

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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
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See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"Fran >" <<fran> wrote in message
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> Word 2003, Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP / sp2
>
> We have three users who share templates in Word. I moved the templates
> folder to a shared folder on the server so that everyone could create
> and share templates. This was working fine and dandy until we upgraded
> from Windows 2000 Pro (workstation) and Office XP.
>
> After upgrading the workstations to Windows XP (sp2) and Office 2003
> the users have complained that their access to the templates folder is
> dismally slow. Indeed I checked this access and what use to be almost
> instantaneous now takes between a minute and a minute and a half!!
>
> The ONLY changes we made were upgrading the operating system on the
> client side and the version of office. That's it.
>
> Is there something new that MS Word is doing that takes so much longer
> to create a list of templates on the shared folder on the server? Is
> there possibly some setting in Windows XP that needs to be changed?
> Right now my only alternative is to copy all of their templates from
> the shared folder on the server BACK to their local PC's. This, of
> course, eliminates their ability to create and share files (not the
> desired effect).
>
> Can somebody share so light on htis? I'm not a Word guru by any shape
> of the imagination and could use some "profound" assistance.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Fran-


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