Downloading & saving templates for my son

[msaylor]

I need to download & save Word templates for my son to use. He is unable to download because of the restrictions on his user account, so I have to download them using my account. But where do I save them so he will have access to them while logged in under his profile? Is there some general location in the Office folder in program files where I can save a template and have them accessible to anyone on the computer? I don't want anyone but me to have administrative access, so I have to be the one to do the downloading.

I can download them for myself, but I can't seem to figure out where to save them so everyone else can access them. I'd appreciate any suggestions anyone may have.

[Stefan Blom]

As the Administrator, you can save the template in your son's user templates folder (the path is usually C:\Users\<user_name_here>\AppData\Roaming\Microsof t\Templates\ but the File Locations dialog box of your son's installation will tell for sure). I believe you also need to give him read & execute access to the file.

[msaylor]

Thanks for all of your help. I tried to save it in my son's AppData folder, but for some reason that wasn't available to me. So I tried once again to do it under his account, but this time I used Internet Explorer instead of Firefox and it let me download and save the file. I was able to open the template and use it under his account.

Go figure. As best as I can tell, Windows was not happy with me trying to download this Office template with a forbidden browser such as FF instead of using IE. What was I thinking?! But it works now and he's all set to go.

Of course I'm about to re-format and upgrade from Windows 7 32-bit to Windows 7 64-bit here in another week or so. So I'll have to do this all over again. but now I know that if I use their approved browser it should work. But I'll still use FF for the other 99.99% of the time, I'm sure much to their chagrin

But really, thanks to all of you who tried to help me out.