Thanks for the feedback. The way Word picks up templates by name can be a
real pain - especially as I think the priority order may have changed over
the versions and certainly isn't brought to your attention in any
documentation.

However, the template shouldn't be making style changes - it sounds like you
do have 'update styles' checked for the document and it is really never a
good idea to leave that box checked when you save. If that setting is in the
template it is difficult to remove there - you will probably have to remake
the template from a document.

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"MHP" wrote in message
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Thanks!

It turns out that the local (draft) copy of the template on my hard
drive was grabbing the document, making for some very inconsistent
updates to the real template.

If I wasn't in such a rush, I'd be incandescent with rage! When I
specify a setting, I expect it to stay that way.