Yesterday I was surprised when I double-clicked on a template in Windows
Explorer and Word opened the .DOT, instead of the new document I expected.
I'm running Windows XP and Word 2003, but the same thing happened on a MAC
with a template I had created. Any ideas why?

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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When you double-click on a .dot file, you always get a new document
because
the default action for .dot files is New.