Asked • 06/19/19

Word documents looking for template on network drive?

I have a bunch of word doc's that were created using a template - which is no longer available. If I am connected the company network when i try to open these documents Word hangs and will not open them. If i disconnect the network cable or i try to open them when not connected the company network the doc's open without a problem.I am wondering if there is anyway to remove the relience on this template from the doc's - I have copied the contents to a new doc and this solves the problem, however there are more than 100 doc's.Any help appreciated.

Peter S.

You can use either change this on your own or use a tool like Word Template Corrector to fix this. See https://www.schakko.de/2020/02/20/how-to-fix-slow-opening-microsoft-word-documents-because-of-invalid-network-paths/ for more details how to fix the issue.
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