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[Martin Langlands]

I’ve just got a copy of eaDocX and trying to follow the first bit of the Help. The “Creating your First Document ¦ Getting Started” help page says I should get a request to choose a Word template, then an eaDocX Profile – but I get neither prompt. Any ideas please?

[eadocX Support]

Hi Martin,
The Help is a bit out of date in that area – I’m updating it at the moment.
Try just creating a Quick Document from a (small) package – that’s the fastets way to get started

[Miroslav Rusnak]

Hi,

Is there currently any way to use predefined word “template” when generating document using either New document or Quick document? I am in organization where multiple departments use different styling in Word like Cover pages, TOC, paging, headers etc and they all need to use predefined word template. Imagine you need to quickly create “ad hoc” document for a meeting, you use QD feature and items like Cover page, header, footer needs to be added every time. Is there a documented eaDocX feature which address this?

Best regards,
Miroslav

[eadocX Support]

There is no feature to do that at the moment.(v4.2)
As you will have found, you can create a Quick Document – using the ‘Normal.dot’ template
or
Create a new document, and choose the template.
What we don’t have is both together.
The reason for this is that we want Quick document to work first time, every time, for new users. So they don’t need to setup anything: they just choose Quick Document, and they get a document.
I guess we could have a ‘template override’ setting, where the user chooses their ‘Quick Document’ Word template, then that is used for all the QDs they produce.
I will investigate.

[eadocX Support]

I have added a new feature into 4.2.1 which allows this.

Get each of your users to go the eaDocX Application settings (from the main EA menu, Specialize / eaDocX / Settings / Application Settings0 and under the Quick Document settings, in Quick Document default template, choose a .dotx or dotm file, and that will get used for all Quick Documents for that user.
Setting is per-user, as this feels like a personal preference.
Thanks for the idea!

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