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Old 07-28-2017, 08:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Literalman View Post
Graham, could you please explain this: "opening documents, modifying them and saving them as something else. This is a recipe for disaster." I'm sure I've done this a thousand times if I want to reuse most of a document. I might open a document used for a July newsletter, change it for September, and save it under a new name. Is it important to save it under a new name first and then modify it?
Graham is spot on. Save as a template and then use that template for new documents. A template is not "opened" in normal use; it becomes the format for a new document.

If you've done this thousands of time and this is the first time it has caused problems you have been extremely lucky.
Templates in Microsoft Word
The kind of template we are discussing here is a "document template."
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