changing tempate location in MS Word?

Hi all,

We need to change the template files (.dot files) location in a lot of word documents.

Does MS Word exposes any interface for doing this programmatically?

Any other ideas on how to automate this would be appreciated.

TIA.

Open Word.

Tools-->Macros-->Visual Basic Editor.

View-->Object Browser.

Enter 'template' into the search box and click the search button.

Among the entries you will find the Document.AttachedTemplate property.

So:

Code:

Set wdApp = CreateObject("Word.Application")
Set wdDoc = wdApp.Documents.Open("path_to_my_doc.doc")
wdDoc.AttachedTemplate = "my new template.dot"
wdDoc.Save
wdDoc.Close

If you really want a way to do this in C/C++ post back.

Thanks!

Basically, I was thinking of making a commandline based exe to change the template files location in all the files in a particular folder.

I am not much of a VB chap, can you provide a similar explanation for C or C++.

See DispHelper Thread.

Code:

void SetTemplate(LPCTSTR szDoc, LPCTSTR szTemplate) {

	DISPATCH_OBJ(wdApp);

	dhCreateObject(L"Word.Application, NULL, &wdApp);
	dhCallMethod(wdApp, L".Documents.Open(%T)", szDoc);
	dhPutValue(wdApp, L".ActiveDocument.AttachedTemplate = %T", szTemplate);
	dhCallMethod(wdApp, L".ActiveDocument.Save");
	dhCallMethod(wdApp, L".Quit");

	SAFE_RELEASE(wdApp);
}

You should reuse the one instance of word if you are altering several documents.