Can I make a selection when opening document

[shreked]

Hi there

I have a document with 8 different templates on it. What im looking at doing is to when opening the document I need it to ask what template you would like to use and then go to that one when selected and input data as required.


Can anyone help




Thanks

shreked

[macropod]

Hi shreked,

You're using the document & template terminology in a way that is quite different to how those terms apply to Word. In Word, documents do not contain templates; there can be multiple templates but each document is built from a single template and multiple documents can have the same template. The normal way of choosing which kind of document to create is to choose the appropriate template as its base.

Aside from that, your post suggests you have a document with multiple Sections and you want the user to be able to choose which Section to go to. Correct?

[shreked]

Sorry I was a bit scarse. What it is there are one or two people who not IT perfect and trying to make it as simple as poss. Is there any way that when I open the doc it askes me what template to use and then it search for that template and opens it seperate in a new document?

[shreked]

sorry or maybe not a template just another document with it all in. Got template on the brain.

[macropod]

Hi shreked,

The correct way to go about creating a new document is to go to File|New|'My Templates' and choose the appropriate template. One hardly needs to be IT savvy to remember that. Having another layer over that to present the users with the same choice isn't going to be an improvement, IMHO. Of course, in a corporate environment, you might want to modify the Word installation so that the plethora of templates available from Office.com aren't visible when you go to File|New.