Contact: ITSD Service Desk servicedesk@mt.gov 406.444.2000 Installation (Windows XP O/S & Word 2010) Step 1: Remove old version of template. If you currently have a copy of the bill drafting template on your computer, remove it: while in select File>New>My Word, Templates, then right click on the Net Bill Drafting template and choose Delete, confirm the deletion, then Cancel to leave the dialog box. Step 2: Copy Net Bill Drafting 2007.dotm to your computer. In your Internet browser, copy the template Net-Bill-Drafting-07.dotm from the current (http://leg.mt.gov/css/Bills/bill-drafting.asp). To do this, right-click on the “Internet version” hypertext link that is located near the bottom of the page under the title Bill In the drop-down menu, choose Save Drafting Macros and Templates/Microsoft Word. Target As… and save it to following directory (the location is trusted by Word “trusted” 2007 for macro enabled templates). C:\Documents and Settings\<your username>\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates Do NOT open or run at this point. Click Save to save it to this directory. Net Bill-Drafting-07.dotm. Step 3: Open template. In Microsoft Word, open Available Templates from In Click File>New. Under the section click Word “New existing…” Use the Look in: box by clicking the down-triangle; near the top of the list, browse to the directory where you saved the file in Step 2. above then in the listing, choose Create New (you may name the new file now or wait until you have and click on finished drafting it to name it) . If you see the following warning, the template is not in a trusted directory. Options… Enable this content. You can still use it but you will have to click and Add-ins When opened, menu icon on your Word toolbar it is a new icon and has the – scales of justice picture.
Contact: ITSD Service Desk servicedesk@mt.gov 406.444.2000 Installation (Windows XP O/S & Word 2010) Step 1: Remove old version of template. If you currently have a copy of the bill drafting template on your computer, remove it: while in Word, select File>New>My Templates, then right click on the Net Bill Drafting template and choose Delete, confirm the deletion, then Cancel to leave the dialog box. Step 2: Copy Net Bill Drafting 2007.dotm to your computer. In your Internet browser, copy the template Net-Bill-Drafting-07.dotm from the current (http://leg.mt.gov/css/Bills/bill-drafting.asp). To do this, right-click on the “Internet version” hypertext link that is located near the bottom of the page under the title Bill Drafting Macros and Templates/Microsoft Word. In the drop-down menu, choose Save Target As… and save it to following “trusted” directory (the location is trusted by Word 2007 for macro enabled templates). C:\Documents and Settings\<your username>\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates Do NOT open or run at this point. Click Save to save it to this directory. Step 3: Open template. In Microsoft Word, open Net Bill-Drafting-07.dotm. In Word Click File>New. Under the Available Templates section click “New from existing…” Use the Look in: box by clicking the down-triangle; near the top of the list, browse to the directory where you saved the file in Step 2. above then in the listing, choose and click on Create New (you may name the new file now or wait until you have finished drafting it to name it) . If you see the following warning, the template is not in a trusted directory. You can still use it but you will have to click Options… and Enable this content. When opened, Add-ins menu icon on your Word toolbar – it is a new icon and has the scales of justice picture.
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