Update: Yippe - a solution to this!!! There was nothing as fancy as a group policy doing this (I searched my registry without luck, but beware that the Word 2003 file location runs home to C:\Documents and Settings\CurrentUser\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates even without a setting).
It turns out this is a known Microsoft Word bug in Office 2003 SP2. Upgrading to SP3 ( http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=E25B7049-3E13-433B-B9D2-5E3C1132F206&displaylang=en ) has fixed on mine and another dev machine - so just need to see how/if I can get it fully tested and rolled out. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938799/ : <snip> Issues that were not previously documented in the Microsoft Knowledge Base </snip> ... <snip> A document that is created from a template in a Web location is unexpectedly attached to a template in the Temporary Internet Files folder Consider the following scenario. You have a custom template that is located in a Web location. You create a document that is based on the template. You save the document and then close the document. When you open the document and then click Templates and Add-Ins on the Tools menu, the document template that is attached to the document is not the template in the Web location. Instead, the template that is attached to the document is located in the Temporary Internet Files folder on the computer. Additionally, customizations that are contained in the custom template in the Web location are not available in the document. </snip> It's nice to cross something off the list. Thanks for the suggestions. Kind regards, Mike. "Noja, Fadi" To <[email protected] <[email protected] ov.au> om.au> cc Subject 20/01/2009 02:10 PM RE: Attached Document Template reference changes to Temporary Internet Files [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] Let me know how it goes. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, 20 January 2009 4:06 PM To: Noja, Fadi Subject: RE: Attached Document Template reference changes to Temporary Internet Files [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] Excellent - a lead to follow! Could well be - unfortunately I'm new to the setup here so I'll have to ask around. Many thanks, Mike. "Noja, Fadi" To <[email protected] <[email protected] ov.au> om.au> cc Subject 20/01/2009 12:44 PM RE: Attached Document Template reference changes to Temporary Internet Files [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] Hi, Is there some group policy or something like that set in your environment? We had our infrastructure people add a similar policy here that cause something similar to happen. Fadi -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, 20 January 2009 2:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Attached Document Template reference changes to Temporary Internet Files A belated Happy New Year to the list!. A little help though please, as I've not looked into document templates much before and they are causing me grief! I've got a standard doc library with versioning, 'require checkout for edit' and a single custom content type (with a custom approvals workflow and an uploaded word 2003 dot template). Clicking New, Saving back to the document library, Checking In and Approving the document all work fine. Before and after saving and checking in, if I look in the MS Word 2003 menu Tools-> Templates and Add-Ins, I correctly see: http://myServer:8888/mySite/_cts/My%20Document%20Type/MyDocument.dot BUT...... When I edit in Word again (it gets checked out by default) and look at Templates and Add-Ins, I now see: C:\Documents and Settings\me\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.MSO\D8A17878.dot If another user looks at the document they also see this same but obviously wrong local reference... I can manaully click Attatch and put the correct dot reference, and all is fine from then on, but I can't expect end users to remember do this. Any ideas how I fix this? It is required as there are macros that disappear when that dot reference gets changed. 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