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Every document has a template associated with it. Templates control things like which styles and macros are available to the document. A document can have only one template associated with it at a time, and you can change that template at any time you desire.
If you want to find out which template is attached to a document, you can do so by displaying the Developer tab of the ribbon and then clicking on the Document Template tool. Word displays the Templates and Add-ins dialog box. (See Figure 1.) The field at the top of the dialog box indicates the name of the template associated with your document.
Figure 1. The Templates and Add-ins dialog box.
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2021-03-24 13:25:06
Amy
Alan, thanks for your tips! I've used them off and on over the years, and they're appreciated. Does this technique work for downloaded files or only ones I've created? For example, I'm trying to determine which of my students used a Word template to create their resumes and which ones made the documents themselves. I'm downloading their resumes from our learning management system, where they have been uploaded by the students as Word files. Thanks!
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