You are attempting to save a template as a document. This is not a good
idea. If you want to create a document based on a template, you do not open
the template, you use File New and create a new document. Your template
should be saved in a templates folder.

For more on the different kinds of templates, tabs on the file new dialog,
and locations of templates folders see
http://addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm.
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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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"Chuck" wrote in message
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Dear MSWord Savants: Today after creating and saving a new template in
Word
2003, when I click to save a document in that new template, I get a
message
box saying, "After saving this document in Word Document format all
AutoText
entries will be lost and the document can no longer be used as an Add-In.
Do
you want to save in this format anyway?" What does this lengthy message
mean
and what, if anything, can or should I do about it? This message is not
obtained when saving a document in the Normal template, only in my new
one.
Much thanks in advance for your help. --Chuck