Thanks for this info, Guessed. I was thinking I would need a way to tell if Word was running, and to give the user a notice to close Word before continuing.
But not sure yet how to do that. As far as distributing document templates, no I'm not doing that. I'm just creating some VBA scripts.
The reason I was using 2 .dotm files is to avoid having to uncompress the .dotm, make the changes, and recompress, rename, etc since it contains the custom ribbon.
But as you said, it's more files to maintain. Maybe I can just edit the scripts directly in that .dotm file and not have to unzip it, edit XML, and recompress. For some reason I thought I needed to.