Thread: [Solved] Sharing Quick Parts
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Old 03-04-2016, 07:44 AM
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Originally Posted by katrinao View Post
The resolution to this is to share the building blocks file you have created in C: Users > <yourusername> AppData > Roaming > Microsoft > Document Building Blocks > 1033 > 15. Copy Building Blocks.dotx from this location. Other users must place this in the same location in their user directory to share your Quick Parts.
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Thank you for trying to help, but this is the method the user was hoping to avoid.

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It seems you have to copy building blocks.dotx into a location in AppData for each user. Surely there must be a simpler method?
It will also overwrite any existing building blocks saved by the other user. The 15 is a version-specific location for Word 2013. For Word 2010 they are in the folder 14.

If the Building Blocks are instead stored in a Global Template then they will not overwrite the individual user's file. They can be stored in a network location available to all users and changing one file can change it for everyone.
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