Using the UAC Report Template
The UAC report template is a Word template file that includes the standard title pages, headings, and basic formatting for finished UAC reports. The template has a few brief comments that give hints about its use, as well as placeholders for titles, headings, etc., than can be replaced with the author's text.
To obtain the template, download it to your hard drive and save it to the required location for Microsoft Word templates (found in Word by checking the File Locations tab from the Options menu):
- For Windows 2000/XP, use the following location:
C:\Documents and Settings\[your username]\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates
- For Windows NT, use the following location:
C:\WINNT\Profiles\\[your username]\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates
- For OS X, use the following location:
[Hard Drive Name]:Applications:Microsoft Office X:Templates
- For MacOS 8 and MacOS 9, use the following location: *
[Hard Drive Name]:Applications:Microsoft Office:Templates
* - this location may need to be modified depending on where the user installed Office on the Mac.
In the Windows cases, substitute your Windows login username for "[your username]" above (you may also need to change the file extension supplied by Internet Explorer from "doc" to "dot"); in the case of the Mac, substitute the name of your hard drive for "[Hard Drive Name]".
Once stored as shown above, you can start a new Word document from Windows using this template as follows:
- From the Word menu bar, select "File", then "New".
- Office 2003 will require you to click the "on my computer" link under Templates from the Task bar.
- From the Templates dialog box, select "UAC-Report-v3.dot" from the available templates within the General tab and click OK.
On a Macintosh, you must store the template in your Word Templates folder, and you may also be required to open it in Word and re-save it as a template. You can then start a new documents using the template as shown in points 1 and 3 above.
Template usage notes:
- When pasting text into the template from other Word documents, please use "Paste Special" from the "Edit" menu, then select "Unformatted Text" from the Paste Special choices. This will include the just the text and allow the template's formatting defaults to be applied to the pasted text.
- If the template's usage comments are not visible to you in Word, do one of the following depending on your version of Word:
- Select "Comments" from the "view" menu;
- Select "Preferences" from the "Tools" menu, click the View tab, then check the box next to Hidden Text.
- To prevent Word from accumulating unneeded styles as you apply formatting, select "Tools|Options" from the menu bar, then select the Edit tab in the Options dialog, then uncheck the box next to "Keep track of formatting".
