How to make letter templates working on MS Office 2007?

If you install MS Office 2007 in the server in which Primavera Contract Manager is installed, you will experence the following errors:

1. MS Word stops response.

2. Just give you an error on the screen.

3. When you try to modify a template, you will see the message below:

Word was unable to read this document. It may be corrupt. Try one or more of the following:

* Open and Repair the file.

* Open the file with the Text Recovery converter.

...

To fix this error, and if you are using MS SQL Server database, you can download the tempalte file from here, and place it in a folder in your MS SQL Server machine, then open a Command Prompt, change to the folder in which the template file is located. type the command below to import the template for your Contract Management:

bcp <Contract Manager database name>.dbo.letter_templates in letter_templates.dat -c -U sa -S localhost

After that, launch your Contract Manager, and go to "Define letter template", and you should see the templates such fax, letter, and standard letter. To create a new template, click the "Save letter template as ..."  icon, and change the template name in the popup, and save it. Don't use "ADD" button to create new template.

That's it

Edit by Jim