I've developed some nice little macros in a letter template which add/remove
our company logo, add/remove footer text, shift the recipient's address into
the proper position when creating a letter which will be sent in a
window-envelope, etc. These functions are called from custom menus in Word
which call the respective macros stored in a module within the
template/document.

Two problems with our "Macro" solution:

1.) Letters created with this template are sometimes e-mailed externally. We
don't want recipients to have any of the programmed functionality, just the
text. Basically, our employees need the programmed functionality as long as
the documents are in-house. External recipients do not.

2.) Macros are being detected internal and external mail servers as "Macro
viruses".

I'd rather not have the authors remember to delete/remove macros before
e-mailing Word files.

I've seen some programs (like PDFMaker) in Word's tool bar, and I noticed
that it is using some of its own macros, but the macros are stored in each
PC's local "Microsoft Office/Office/startup" folder, and not stored with the
document itself. After briefly experimenting with the startup folder, I
couldn't duplicate this "local only" functionality. Is there some other
technology required such as COM or ActiveX? Or, does anyone recommend using
Visual Studio Tools for Office instead of Word's VBA environment? Is there
an advantage?