HOW TO INSTALL THE WORD TEMPLATES

NOTE 1: Use these files in Word 97, 2000, or 2003 ONLY!!! THERE IS A BUG IN WORD XP (2002) that will cause documents to crash if you do any modest copying and pasting in the document.

NOTE 2: Installing normal.dot is going to override all of your current setup (icons, macros, etc.). You can skip this and instead just use file, new, and click debate.dot which will open the debate.dot template.

NEW FEATURES IN THE 2006 VERSION

*COPY AND PASTE WITHOUT FORMATTING (Control + G): Want to Paste Text from a web page without all the formatting? In the Debate Template, just press Ctrl and G at the same time to paste in text without formatting. (This was actually a 2005 addition).

*MAKE A LONG CARD SHORTER (Control + 8): Turns the highlighted text that is not underlined into 8 point font.

*EMPHASIS WORDS (F10): Makes highlighted text use a bigger font for emphasis when reading.

*NEW TABLE OF CONTENTS (1 column is Control + F11; 2 column is Control + F12): They now work; They are better formatted. NOTE--formatting Block Titles and Hats needs to be accurate to make the TOC work correctly.

*PRESS CONTROL+R TO GET THE OLD TABLE OF CONTENTS (ROSS STYLE)

*NEW BACK AND FORTH ARROW BUTTONS: When using a table of contents--after clicking a link to a page--just click the arrow back button to return to the table of contents.

*REMOVE RETURNS no longer requires answering no to several prompts. It just does it.

*HATS now add a line before making them more noticeable in the Doc Map.

*THE DOC MAP NOW SHOWS MORE ITEMS because the font is smaller.

*PRESS ENTER AFTER A BLOCK TITLE and it returns to normal text.

*YOU WON'T NOTICE IT--But the normal.dot and debate.dot have been separated and streamlined. This means less problems sharing documents and it also means you really don't need the team's normal.dot to use debate.dot fully.

*F12 NOW HIGHLIGHTS AND UNHIGHLIGHTS

STEP 1: COPY THE NORMAL.DOT AND DEBATE.DOT FILES

STEP 2: 0pen Windows Explorer (not Internet Explorer). 

STEP 2A: Make sure you will be able to see the files
To do this:
Click Tools, Folder Options
Click the View Tab
Click "Show hidden files and folders"
Uncheck "Hide extensions for unknown file types"
Click Okay

STEP 2B: Search for and Paste the Debate.dot and Normal.dot into the right folder
To do this:
Click your C drive
Click the Search button
Choose Advanced File Searching Behavior
Click Advanced Options and check "Seach hidden files and folders"
At the top where it says "Search for files or folders named" type in normal.dot and then click Search.
When "normal.dot" appears, right click it and choose "Open Containing Folder"

STEP 3: Paste in normal.dot and debate.dot into that folder.

(note: it will ask you if it is okay to overwrite the normal.dot file, say yes ONLY IF you want to replace your current normal template; NOTE: you do not need to change normal.dot to make debate.dot work; it is only to give a quick access button to the debate.dot)

STEP 4: NOW, OPEN UP WORD AND YOU ARE READY TO GO.

--------EXCEPT--PLEASE DO THE FOLLOWING IN MS WORD: Click Tools, Options, Edit, uncheck "Keep Track of Formatting" (this will avoid style problems in the debate template)


TROUBLESHOOTING TIP 1: CAN'T FIND THE NORMAL.DOT FILE

If you can't find the normal.dot file--try opening and exiting from MS Word and then redo your search.

If that doesn't work, then in Windows Explorer, go to this folder:

c:\documents and settings\user\application data\microsoft\templates


TROUBLESHOOTING TIP 2: THE DEBATE DOC BUTTON DOESN'T WORK

In MS Word, Click Tools, Macros, Macros and then highlight "Debate" on the left and click "Edit" on the right.

where it says:
"C:\Documents and Settings\forensics\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates\Debate.dot" 

change "forensics" to whatever the name of your computer is (e.g. "Beth Schueler" or "user")

Click File, Close and Return to MS Word.

It should work now.

TROUBLESHOOTING TIP 3: THE DEBATE DOC BUTTON DOESN'T WORK WHEN I HAVE A DEBATE DOC OPEN

WITH A DEBATE DOCUMENT OPEN, Do the above for troublesheeting a debate doc button doesn't work except the Macro you change is called TemplateProject.NewMacros.Debate