[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If they have *opened* the template, then of course they have created a new
file. The default action for templates (.dot files) is to create new
documents based on them, an action that prevents the template itself from
being modified, except in specific instances when modified styles are saved
to it.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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Hi,
I have created a template in word 2003 (yes, it is correctly saved as a
.dot
file) for general use on a network. Twice now people have opend the
template,
written what they want to write then saved, only to find they have saved
over
the original template. What is there is still a template with the same
name.
I just can't figure out how this is happening. Whenever I open it, I get a
new word doc opening. Any suggestions on what might be going wrong?