When opening a new document in word that uses a custom template, when I check
the attached template (Templates and Add-ins under Tools), it is always
normal.dot rather than the template from which I created the new document.
How can I force a new document to use my custom template and styles
automatically, rather than having to use Templates & Add-Ins and Update
Styles Automatically with each new document?

How are you creating the document? How are you making it "use a custom
template"?

If you go via File New and choose the Template, that does what you ask.

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Enjoy,
Tony


"VacavilleTechWriter" wrote
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When opening a new document in word that uses a custom template, when I
check
the attached template (Templates and Add-ins under Tools), it is always
normal.dot rather than the template from which I created the new document.
How can I force a new document to use my custom template and styles
automatically, rather than having to use Templates & Add-Ins and Update
Styles Automatically with each new document?

If you use File New to create a new document from a template, that will be
the attached template. The only way I know of to interfere with this is a
macro that attaches a different template. The same is true if you create the
new document by double-clicking on the icon for the template in Explorer.

Is it possible that your template is really a document? Perhaps even one
that was renamed as a .dot file? Try opening the template and using SaveAs
to save it as a template.
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"VacavilleTechWriter" wrote
in message ...
When opening a new document in word that uses a custom template, when I
check
the attached template (Templates and Add-ins under Tools), it is always
normal.dot rather than the template from which I created the new document.
How can I force a new document to use my custom template and styles
automatically, rather than having to use Templates & Add-Ins and Update
Styles Automatically with each new document?