Where do templates go?
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I couldn't find my license key for Office 2013 on my local machine since everything's moved to The Cloud
Magical Jellybean Keyfinder wouldn't work, then, I take it?
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why didn't you search for *.dot
Huh? I knew where my template was, I didn't know how to tell Word where it was.
Magical Jellybean Keyfinder wouldn't work
That's my understanding. Articles like http://www.howtogeek.com/206329/how-to-find-your-lost-windows-or-office-product-keys/ point out the software methods won't work on 2013 due to the Microsoft Account storing the key in the cloud. I believe it now works like Steam
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Huh? I knew where my template was, I didn't know how to tell Word where it was.
Oh, I guess I misunderstood the original problem.
I guess I would have solved the problem by putting my own templates either in %mydocuments% or wherever the default templates go, instead of trying to move the latter. But I'm lazy.
software methods won't work on 2013 due to the Microsoft Account storing the key in the cloud.
Ugh. I'm probably going to need the demo of Office 2013 anyway because protected mode or whatever it's called breaks mail merge in my app and I need to fix that.
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I misunderstood the original problem.
Yeah. Basically, I had originally stored my templates in the default template location, but when I reformatted and put them back in the default template location, they didn't appear in Word, because somewhere deep in the options, a box didn't get filled with the default value, probably because I'd never hit "save as -> template" since I'd installed so it assumed there were no templates to look for, which is bullshit.
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put them back in the default template location, they didn't appear in Word
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Probably needed to reboot.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I read the rest of her post. Shadup.
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:D I didn't make it clear in the OP, but I'd restored the templates, oh, five or six Windows Update-prompted reboots ago XD
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I wonder how do you even do that? I buttume Office (or the UI bit, at least) is written in .NET these days? How do you handle settings properly there? I read some extremely basic docs and I didn't see any proper defaults handling... That can't be right, can it?