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Originally Posted by jthomas666
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.
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Almost all of them are dotx and almost all of my documents are docx. However, I did copy a couple of test documents over to the new machine and opened them in Word. At the top of the screen, it says "Compatibility mode" even though they are docx. Is the document format different in Word 2016 than in Word 2007?
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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.
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I'm not sure which field you are referring to. I've attached a screen shot of the File | Options | Save dialog with a template open. I don't see any blank fields or paths to templates.
In that same dialog in Word 2016, I do see a field for templates and it is blank.
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In Office 2016, that is
C:\Users\[username]\Documents\Custom Office Templates
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Great. I'll put them there.
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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.
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That was my backup plan. I'll try that.
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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.
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I want to save them in the default location.
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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.
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It looks like that is so. I opened the VBA editor and all of my macros are in modules under Normal.
Very much so. Thanks.
