Your understanding is fine as far as it goes. The missing piece is that,
although macros in a global template are available to all open documents,
the template itself is not. In order to save new macros (or AutoText or
toolbars) to the global template, you have to have the template itself open
for editing. You may find more useful information in the article at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...latesStore.htm

Some other articles that may be helpful to you in transition from WP:

How Word differs from WordPerfect
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/WordVsWordPerfect.htm

Some Tips and “Gotchas” for those who are new to Word
Especially if migrating from WordPerfect
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/TipsAndGotchas.htm

Is There Life After “Reveal Codes”?
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/RevealCodes.htm

WordPerfect to Word converters (and why none of them are perfect)
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/Wo...Converters.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"Deb McLellan" wrote in message
...
I am a WP user making the transition to Word (currently Word XP), and am
attempting to understand global templates. I create a global template and
give it a name - create macros to be held in that template with that
template open, and then save it to the startup folder.

With that template open, when I select Macro|Record New Macro, the choices
for saving the macros are "All Documents (Normal.dot)" and "Documents
based
on MacroHolder.dot". Neither option seems to give me what I want. I
thought there should be a way to save them to the template itself. I can
create the macros fine and they work on my computer - but when I load them
to the server I have problems accessing the macros from other
workstations -
even though I think I have pointed those workstations to the correct
startup
and workgroup folders.

I appreciate the rambling nature of the email and aplogize for that, but
I've been going around in circles between the manual I have (very basic)
and
the various help sites I have accessed. I'm happy to figure it out for
myself, but I think I'm missing some basic understanding of something and
I
don't know how better to ask the question at this point.

Thanks for any help.

Deb