Word documents looking for template on network drive

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.

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"I have inherited a doc from someone and every time I open it, it tries to connect to some network location to download some template. I never understood why and needed to resolve it and made me look for it until one impatient user complained that the document does not open.

Here is the procedure to fix this with Office 2013:

I had to go to File > Options > Add-Ins. At the bottom click on the drop down that says Manage and select Templates and click on Go... There it was pointing to some person's network folder. I removed that template and all is well."