The option is stored below the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\\Word\Options\UseTimeoutForAttachedTemplateLoad Circumventing the issue by reducing the timeoutĪ naive approach for circumventing the issue is to reduce Microsoft Word’s timeout when contacting the template path. In the Microsoft Word’s status bar at the bottom, you can see the following error: Contacting \\your-old-server-ip-or-name\my-share\my-template.dotx. But when a network share is used, it will take a long time. Due to the inner working of the operating system, accessing local templates it will fail relatively fast. In a corporate world, most of the Microsoft Word templates are centrally stored on a network drives which is either mounted locally or you are accessing the network drive by using the UNC name like \\your-server-ip-or-name.ĭue to networking restructuring, the IP address or network name can change.Īs soon as the Word template is no longer available, Word tries to contact the old location.With replacing the hard disk, the drive names have also been changed (e.
If you don’t like the one given, once you have chosen the destination folder, type a name for your document in the ‘File name’ box. Step 5: Word will automatically give your document a name, based on the first few words of your text. If you wish to change this folder, navigate through the folders on the left-hand side of the dialogue box to choose the one where you want to save your document. At the top and at the left-hand side in the list of folder options, it will show the folder where you’ll be saving the document.
Step 4: A ‘Save’ dialogue box will come up. Step 2: Click File in the top left-hand corner of the screen. Step 1: Start a new document in Word and type your text.
That way, if your computer crashes before you’ve finished your composition, you won’t lose what you’ve typed.įollow these step-by-step instructions to save a document You can save a document at any point as you type it, and it’s very good practice to save every few minutes.
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This guide explains how to save a document in Microsoft Word Office 365. You may also have started a document but want to finish it off later. If you’ve written a bestseller or created a newsletter, you’ll probably want to save it somewhere so that you can get to it again for printing or sending by email.