This suggests that (a) you have saved the template in Word's Startup folder
instead of the user templates folder (see Tools | Options | File Locations
for the respective paths) and (b) you are opening the template and saving it
as a document instead of creating a new document based on the template,
which is the correct way to use it.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Chuck" wrote in message
...
Dear MSWord Savants: Today after creating and saving a new template in
Word
2003, when I click to save a document in that new template, I get a
message
box saying, "After saving this document in Word Document format all
AutoText
entries will be lost and the document can no longer be used as an Add-In.
Do
you want to save in this format anyway?" What does this lengthy message
mean
and what, if anything, can or should I do about it? This message is not
obtained when saving a document in the Normal template, only in my new
one.
Much thanks in advance for your help. --Chuck