Global.Templates Property

Word Developer Reference

Returns a Templates collection that represents all the available templates—global templates and those attached to open documents.

Syntax

expression.Templates

expression   Required. A variable that represents a Global object.

Remarks

For information about returning a single member of a collection, see Returning an Object from a Collection.

Example

This example displays the name of each template in the Templates collection.

Visual Basic for Applications
  Count = 1
For Each aTemplate In Templates
    MsgBox aTemplate.Name & " is template number " & Count
    Count = Count + 1
Next aTemplate

In this example, if template one is a global template, its path is stored in thePath. The ChDir statement is used to make the folder with the path stored in thePath the current folder. When this change is made, the Open dialog box is displayed.

Visual Basic for Applications
  If Templates(1).Type = wdGlobalTemplate Then
    thePath = Templates(1).Path
    If thePath <> "" Then ChDir thePath
    Dialogs(wdDialogFileOpen).Show
End If

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