Re: Way to remove references to "installed" templates? how to avoid "installing" the rest to begin with?

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From: StargateFan (IDon'tAcceptSpam_at_IDon'tAcceptSpam.com)
Date: 05/31/04 

Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 12:15:04 -0400

On Mon, 31 May 2004 00:30:48 -0400, StargateFan
<IDon'tAcceptSpam@IDon'tAcceptSpam.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 30 May 2004 08:40:31 +0100, "Graham Mayor"
><gmayor@NOSPAMmvps.org> wrote:
>
>>I am not sure what Doug was thinking of here, but you certainly can get rid
>>of all the installed templates - by uninstalling them through Windows add
>>and remove programs - then changing the setup for Word/Office. This will
>>leave behind just the General tab, containing four (on recent Word versions)
>>icons, which are integral to Word.
>>
>>See http://www.gmayor.com/zips/fileopen.gif
>>
>>You can create your own tabs and your own templates - as you appear to have
>>discovered.
>>
>>See http://www.gmayor.com/Template_Locations.htm
>
>Graham, this worked wonderfully! From now on, after an hdd
>wipe/reintall, when installing Office again, will make sure I select
>that wizards and templates not be installed.
>
>I found that copying all the templates and then moving the copies into
>one folder did the job for me. This way, if one remote day I need one
>of the default templates, I can pull one up but they won't take up
>valuable real estate in the FILE NEW dialogue box.
>
>Thanks so much for this!

Just a post-followup followup <g>!

I had one tab left in the NEW FILE dialogue box. This was
disconcerting, but they I realized that maybe more than what is found
in the "wizards/templates" feature under Word was installed there so I
would need to look for other possible sources.

I looked at the tab under Word that was left and it had DIRECT MAIL or
something in it and of the 4 wizard files there, one also had "direct
mail" in the title. That made life easier. I looked up CD2 from the
Office suite as I know that's where Publisher is and when I looked at
what there was there to remove, there were some entries that also had
the words "direct mail" in them. Once I went through the process of
removing those, all the extra Word tabs were gone!

(I made screenshots of what I removed so that next time I reinstall,
I'll avoid installing them in the first place since it'll be easy to
remember not to install these for Word but not so easy when installing
Publisher!)

Just thought I'd mention this as it might happen to other newbies such
as myself. So the source of Word templates doesn't always just come
from under the Word option while installing.

Thanks for everyone's help! Can't believe how uncluttered everything
is now without all that extra stuff!! It's wonderful! Yet all the
physical templates I copied before doing the removal are safely on my
partitioned D drive in case I ever need them one day.

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