The purpose of templates is to provide a uniform basis for the repeated
production of documents so I hardly think that saving as a template is
applicable to what you aim to do.

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"Wallace" wrote in message
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Eventually, nothing. I was looking for a way to preserve the existing
styles
and prevent direct formatting and the addition of any user-created styles.
I
suppose that can be done by using the protection feature in W2003, but I
also
wanted to protect the underlying document structure, so I thought saving
the
document as a template would do that.
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"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

Why as a template? What are other users intended to be able to do with
the
document?

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"Wallace" wrote in message
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I have a long document (100+ pages) in Word 2003 in which the styles are
now
set. I want to preserve this document so that no new styles ---
whether
by
design or user-created through direct formatting --- can be added. I
plan
to
save this document as a template and protect the styles. Any new styles
would
be made by me and only on the template.

Is there anything I should be aware of or should do to accomplish this?
Thanks
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Wallace