Organize Your Templates by Creating Custom Tabs in Office 2000 
A good way to organize templates so that you can easily locate them is
to set up custom tabs in the New dialog box (File
menu).
To create a custom tab in the New dialog box
- In Microsoft Windows® Explorer, open the Templates folder. If you
use the user profiles feature in Microsoft Windows NT® 4.0, Windows 98,
or Windows 95, the Templates folder is located by default in
Windows_folder\profiles\username\application Data\Microsoft. If you are
not using the user profiles feature, the Templates folder is located by
default in Windows_folder\ApplicationData\Microsoft.
- On the File menu, click New, and then click Folder
to create a subfolder in the Templates folder.
- Type a name for the subfolder. The name you assign to the subfolder
appears as a tab in the New dialog box.
- Move the templates you want into the subfolder you just created.
Note The type of template extension will determine
where the template actually appears (in which program's New dialog
box). In other words, if you create a Word template (a .dot extension), it
will appear in your new subfolder in the New dialog box in Word. A
tab for the subfolder you created only appears in the New dialog
box in your Office program if a template for that program is located in
the subfolder. For example, if the folder you created does not contain a
Word template, the tab for that folder does not appear in the New
dialog box in Word.
For example, say that you've just created some new templates named
Weekly Report (a Word template), and Monthly Report (an Excel template).
Now you want to create a custom tab named Special Reports in the
New dialog box.
In Windows Explorer, create a subfolder named Special Reports in the
Templates folder. Then move the Weekly Report and Monthly Report templates
to the Special Reports subfolder. Now, when you click New on the
File menu in Excel, the Special Reports folder appears as a tab in
the New dialog box and the Monthly Report template is displayed on
the tab. Likewise, the Weekly Report template is displayed on the Special
Reports tab when you click New on the File menu in Word.
See Also
For more information about creating templates, read Creating a Template in Office 2000. You can also type create template in
the Office Assistant or on the Answer Wizard tab in the Help window
for the Office program you are using, and then click Search.
