Re: Using .doc as template leads to .dot save prompt

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Sorry for spamming, just think I should clarify some more, about what I
am actually doing and why:

I have a template (.dot), I create a doc based on the template. In the
doc I write in the standard headers and sections for the particular
"template". So, for example, if it is a design doc, it might have
headings such as syntax, database modification, tw modifications, etc.
If it is a minute template, it might have headings such as attendees,
outcomes... both docs however refer to the same .dot file.

I then place the .doc's in the user's workgroup template directory and
make the .dot hidden so that it is not selectable. A user the creates
new documents based on doc files, but the new docs always have the
(hidden) .dot as their template.

As a result, I can have any number of templates while only having to
maintain one .dot file.

Works like a charm: except when I open the doc as a template. When I do
this, I am not prompted to save the doc as a dot, I am prompted to save
*changes* to the dot, which is down stream.

Again, thanks Charles, I hope this clarifies things rather than
complicate them.

.

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