First, you don't open a template to use it, you create a new document based
on the template. This may seem picky, but it is an important distinction.

Second, the default location will start as the Word documents folder
location. Once a document is opened or saved from within Word, that folder
becomes the new default location.

Third, you can set the save directory as part of an AutoNew procedure in
your template. http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...SaveAsPath.htm
However, if the user opens or saves a document after that, it will switch
around, so...

Fourth, you can setup a substitute SaveAs command.
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...tSavePrint.htm. Good luck.
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"Clang" wrote in message
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Is it possible to configure a template so that when it is opened as a
document it will automatically save as a .doc to a specified location when
you close out of the document? I would want this to do this without
further
input from the individual using the template.