The change in default font and line spacing is an "improvement" MS made, I think it was in 2010. But this is a common misunderstanding / misuse. Template files are DOT or DOTX (or DOTM). Using DOC or DOCX files as "templates" for new documents is not the way MS intended Word to be used. Hope this helps, Doug Robbins - MVP Office Apps & Services (Word) It's time to replace ‘Diversity, Equity & Inclusion’ with ‘Excellence, Opportunity & Civility’ - V Ramaswamyĭoug made one of the key points I wanted to raise.
More tips on how to convert them to the latest file format without affecting the layout.
If you send me a copy of one of the Word 97-2003 "templates" so that I can see how it is formatted (layout), referencing this thread in the covering email message, I will see if I can give dot file extension and in the current versions of Word, the extension would be. You may want to change the font\paragraph formatting in that template.Īlso note that '.doc and '.docx files are NOT templates as the word templates is used in Word. If that box is checked, the styles in the document will automatically be updated to those in the Normal.dotm template on the machine on which you are doing the conversion.
On the machine on which you are doing the conversion, make sure that under Developer>Document Template, you do NOT have a check mark in the box for "Automatically update document styles" I would like to know if Microsoft provides a converter tool that converts the documents in an automated and bulk manner, and does not introduce any changes/differences in the output generated from the converted doc templates. We are suspecting that these changes are introduced because of the way we have converted the documents by just opening them and saving them as. Now when we use theseĬonverted templates to generate actual document output fonts and line spacing are changed, font is changed from Arial to Helvetica and line spacing increased from 1 to 1.15. We developed small program that opens the 2003 Word doc templates and saves them as. MS Word 2003 is not supported on Windows Server 2016 we need to convert our MS Word 2003 templates to MS Word 2016. Now we are moving the assembling system to a server class machine on Windows Server 2016. These documents are assembled by an homegrown assembler system deployed on a Windows XP machine.
My company has a large number of document templates in MS Word 2003.