Unless the template is read-only, you should be able to save changes to it.

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"Ted Kerin" wrote in message
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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What you're doing should be working. If it's not, it might be that
Normal.dot is not being saved on shutdown. Do you have Acrobat 7
installed?
If so, see the last section of
http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adob...at_toolbar.htm


Thanks for your reply, Suzanne. Based on your answer, and some further
tought, I think the problem is caused by a stylesheet used in the program
that creates the documents (which I failed to mention in my initial post,
because I didn't realize the importance). I think this program imposes its
own formatting, in a way that effectively prevents Word from automatically
using its own template.

Thanks again.