My Word-Template-Topic-Text-Indent-US.docx no longer works as a Publish template. It appears to be corrupt as the output is 3 pages (of 77) and mostly unfilled fields.
I worked from a copy of that template in my Projects folder.
However, I now also see $helpman-word-helper-macros.dotm and ~$elpman-word-helper-macros.dotm in the Projects folder, which I don't think I copied.
Can I just delete the bad DOCX and bring a fresh copy into Prjects?
What should I do about the two DOTMs?
copy of Word template corrupted - what to copy now?
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Re: copy of Word template corrupted - what to copy now?
Hi Dave,
Yes, that's fine. Word files are Babylonian monsters inside and trying to repair or adjust anything in them manually is generally an exercise in frustration (a DOCX is actually a normal zip archive that can be unpacked with any unzipper if you change its extension). As a reference to this, the DOCX specifications are somewhere in the region of 7,000 pages...Can I just delete the bad DOCX and bring a fresh copy into Prjects?
Don't worry about them. They're generated automatically by Help+Manual when you publish, and they're only needed for auto-updating the fields in the Word file the first time you open it. It's done like this to ensure that all macros are kept out of your Word file.What should I do about the two DOTMs?
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Re: copy of Word template corrupted - what to copy now?
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