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Old 02-08-2020, 10:38 PM
jthomas666 jthomas666 is offline Windows 10 Office 2016
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Do the templates have a dot or dotx extension? If it's dot, then they're the older Word format. Once you've migrated the files, you may want to save all of them to the new format.


In Word 2007

Go to the Word File menu, and select Options > Save. That should show you the location of your customer templates. If that field is blank, then Word is using the default location. In Office 2016, that is

C:\Users\[username]\Documents\Custom Office Templates

I can't guarantee that's the same location for 2007. If all else fails, create a new template in 2007 and see where it saves it.

To move templates to the new version, you can just drop them in the default location. If you want to store them somewhere else, you can--just change the path in Word>Files>Options>Save>Personal template location.

Regarding macros...

Unless you went out of your way to save them in specific files, macros are general stored in the normal.dot or normal.dotx template. So, copying that template to the new machine should migrate the macros.

If the macros are stored in other files, then just copy the files. I do not not how the version difference from 2007 to 2018 will impact the macros; it's quite possible that that the best solution would be to recreate the macros in the new version.

Hope this helps!
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