atw: New Doc versus Save Template as Word Doc

Hi all -

We are setting up a series of business document templates in MS Word
2003. Authors will open a template from a Sharepoint page, create
their draft document, and send it to me to be spruced up and
published to a different Sharepoint page.

Because authors don't have update permissions on the Templates page,
the template they select opens in Word in read-only mode. Currently
we tell them to 'Save As' a Word doc on a local drive and make their
changes.

The traditional way to use a template in Word is to do File > New and
have Word open a new document based on the template you select.

I'm wondering if there is any significant difference between Word's
'create new document based on a template' method, and our 'open a
template and save as a document' method. Are there any hidden nasties
that will come back to haunt us?

As far as I know the styles and page layouts will be the same either
way. I'm aware that the 'fill in fields' feature won't work using our
method. Is there anything else I need to know.

Is anyone else using Word and Sharepoint together, or thinks they'll
need to in future? If there's any interest I'll keep posting
questions and tips as stumble over them.

Cheers

Stuart

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