First. You do _not_ want to have your documents update their styles on
open - hardly ever! That is the path to tearing your hair out.

Second, try doing the updating when logged off your network. Documents will
open much faster.
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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://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Joey" wrote in message
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Thanx for the previous feedback. I also thought it was searching across
the
network for the old template. Next question: How can I automate it to
automatically strip looking for the template which is no longer available
and
link it to my new template. I have tried the following:
With ActiveDocument
.UpdateStylesOnOpen = True
.AttachedTemplate = "C:\templates\Normal.dot"
End With
in an AutoOpen macro which works beautifully apart from the fact that the
document still needs to be opened first and takes quite a while to open.
Can
one not look at document properties before the document is opened and
strip
the template at that point so that the document opens faster? However I
think
"the attached template" is a built-in property? Hope you understand what I
am
asking.