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ignore temporary Microsoft Word template files (.dot/.dotx)
Reasons for making this change:
I had a Word template that I created in my local directory to reuse for multiple documents (Research.dotx). While editing another document based on that template, the temporary file ~$Research.dotx was created in that folder, along with the temporary .docx file for the document I had open. When an automatic backup process committed my work overnight with Word still open, the .docx was ignored, but the .dotx was added to my repository.
Links to documentation supporting these rule changes:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/save-a-word-document-as-a-template-cb17846d-ecec-49d4-82ea-a6f5e3e8b9ae https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/description-of-how-word-creates-temporary-files-66b112fb-d2c0-8f40-a0be-70a367cc4c85
