

To create a document from a saved template in later versions of Word, open the New window (File | New), and click the Personal tab.

When you later want to create a new document based on the template, in the New Document dialog box you can select My Templates at the left side of the dialog box and see the templates that you've saved. Click Templates (or Custom Word Templates depending on which version of Word you are using) in the hierarchy and the file will be saved in the proper templates location (the same one you saw in the File Locations dialog box). To avoid the chance of placing an unwanted macro into a trusted location, Word doesn't store templates, by default, in the templates folder.įortunately, the template folder is now a default "place" in the hierarchy shown at the left side of the Save As dialog box. The reason for this is security the templates folder is trusted, meaning that any macro stored there is trusted by Word. You should know, however, that just because Word knows this is where your templates are to be stored (in the User Templates specification), that doesn't mean that it stores new templates there by default. In the File Locations dialog box, you can see the folders in which Word presumes you store both user templates and workgroup templates. Word displays the File Locations dialog box.

Don is at a loss as to where templates are located in Word.
