Sometimes I’m stupid.<\/p>\n
Sometimes I make myself feel stupid.<\/p>\n
Today was one of those days.<\/p>\n
Over the years I’ve collected a fair number of custom templates for Microsoft Word. I have a screenplay template, for instance. I’ve created a few specialized letter templates. I have some templates I’d put together for EB Games. And I’ve created some templates for my current job as well to take care of most of my article formatting needs.<\/p>\n
Here’s the problem. My “General” template tab in Microsoft Word had become unruly. I had too<\/i> many templates. My Sherlock Holmes letter template was next to the resume template I like using, and those were next to various EB Games templates, and lost in the jungle were the templates I’d built for work articles.<\/p>\n
Could I organize these? Open the template window in Word, and there’s eight or nine tabs. Surely I could move the letter templates to the letter tab, couldn’t I?<\/p>\n
I couldn’t drag them. Blast!<\/p>\n
I’d ask the dog! So, I asked the dog. And the dog had this to say:<\/p>\n
If you want to create custom tabs for your templates in the Templates dialog box, create a new subfolder in the Templates folder and save your templates in that subfolder. The name you give that subfolder will appear on the new tab.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Helpful? Mildly. For the EB Games templates — which, realistically, I can just delete, as I don’t have any of the forms they were for anymore, I’d have no reason to ever use<\/i> these again, but they’re something I<\/i> created and I don’t want<\/i> to part with them — creating a new directory in my Templates folder was a snap. But what about my letter templates?<\/p>\n
It turns out that if you create a folder called “Letters & Faxes” that you can place letter templates there, and they show up in the Letters & Faxes tab alongside the pre-installed Word templates.<\/p>\n
Same with Resumes. Create a folder called “Other Documents” and you’re set.<\/p>\n
I placed the screenplay template in a “Publications” directory.<\/p>\n
It was one of those things. It seemed like it shouldn’t<\/i> work, and yet it did! And because it worked — right<\/i>, the first<\/i> time — I felt stupid because I’d overthought the problem and assumed that it wouldn’t<\/i> work.<\/p>\n
Which means that tomorrow at work, I can organize my templates there, too! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
I really do surprise myself sometimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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