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Originally Posted by Charles Kenyon
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Thank you. Your site is an absolutely terrific resource, it helped me understand things that are explained nowhere else (certainly not in books), and it's among the topmost sources I've referenced for my own use.
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What differences are you seeing?
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They relate to where elements are stored (document / attached template / normal.dot / global templates), and whether it's possible or impossible to store them there, versus recommended or discouraged.
Different authors have different versions. The whole picture is so complex that I resorted to writing my own user manual for my own use.
The inside contradiction I was referring to is in Word 2003 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, by Doug Lowe, Wiley, 2004. In Working with Templates (p.47) , he says :
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Macros are always stored in a template, so any macros you create
or modify are stored in the template, not in the document itself.
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And in Where Do All the Macros Go (p. 671), he says :
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You can store macros in documents or in templates. When you create a
macro, you have three choices for where to store the macro:
✦ The current document
✦ The template that’s attached to the current document
✦ The Normal.dot template
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Mind you, I'm not lambasting these guys. They worked against a schedule over an incredibly complex program (the development of which was probably not even finished at that time). And there's no way I could be using Word properly without those books.