Make sure you are opening your template rather than creating a new document
from it. (Look at the title bar.)

Alt-F9 toggles display of field codes on and off.

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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://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Lou Cherry" Lou wrote in message
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I've created a template in Word 2002. I'd like to make some changes, but
when
I go to open it, it goes into it "dialogue" phase. How can I get the
"{fillin}" brackets back?

Lou Cherry