I am putting together an excel worksheet list of required documents for our
project team. The goal is to simplify launching the correct document template
required. I know how to create a hyperlink and the hyperlink does launch the
proper document. However, MSWord templates when double clicked should launch a
new document that needs to be saved; maintaining the integrity of the word
template.
My problem is that the template comes up as a template file (.dot) instead of as
a document file (.doc) as it should. I have spent half the day searching for an
answer to this and found that you can hyperlink (from a word document) to a
shortcut to a word template and that is supposed to solve the problem. When I
created this solution, it just locked up word. Not the real problem since we
want this to be resolved from and Excel spreadsheet.
This same proposed solution, however, did not resolve the issue from Excel. IE:
When I hyperlinked from Excel to a shortcut to a word template, the word
template still came up and not the doc. We need the word template to work
correctly launching the template as a new .doc document.