They are based on normal.dot because that is the template that is used when
no other template is specified.

Word creates a new normal.dot when you start it, at least in memory, if it
can't find an existing normal.dot template.

You can use a macro to attach a different template to any document if you
want. The easy way, though, is to use real Word templates and create your
documents based on them.
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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
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See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Joseph N." wrote in message
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I have several specialized templates in my template directory. The path to
the directory where I have these templates is my user template directory,
which Word (2002) has as my template path.

I also have a directory of "templates" that are utilized by a database
program I use. These "templates" resulted from saving each of my Word
templates with a .doc extension in the directory that the database program
uses for its "templates." When I need to use one of these "templates" in
the database program, I pick various data to be pasted or merged
(depending on my purposes), and I pick the "template" I need for the job.

I normally do not keep a normal.dot template between Word sessions.

I just discovered that the "templates" being used by the database program
show, in File/Properties, that they are based on normal.dot. Why? If the
document results from being Saved As from another specific template, then
why would it be based on normal.dot instead of that other template?

I have just attached the appropriate templates to each of the "templates"
and resaved them. If this is necessary to do in order to avoid normal.dot
being the underlying template for these specialized documents, is there an
automated way to do it?

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