Thanx for the info. Charles maybe I should explain the entire problem below.
We receive documents from other law firms via email which have been created
with their templates so our styles and paragraph numbering doesn't work in
their documents unless you update the styles therefore the reason for that.
We need to amend the documents and mail them back to them. So the problem
lies in opening documents from outside our office via Outlook into word. We
cannot log off the network as the email won't work then unless we run with
offline folders but we will be logging on and off all the time. Understand my
frustration? Any other suggestion or I'm I misunderstanding?

"Charles Kenyon" wrote:

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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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.