Right-click on any Toolbar and select Customise
Under Commands, Categories, select All Commands.
Scroll down the commands list until you find FIleNewDIalog.
Drag and drop it onto a Toolbar.
Select or create a button face and add to the command (which will now show
as 'Other')
Then right-click on the button and select Default Style.

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Terry Farrell - Word MVP
http://word.mvps.org/

"anakclero" wrote in message
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: In Word 2003:
: How can I reset File/New/Templates to appear as they did in older versions
: of Word - where they immediately defaulted to our customised Templates
Folder
: - which is networked rather than contained in "C" drive. We have Company
: Templates and to choose them through the Task Pane is a slower process
than
: that in older versions of Word.