Hi macropod,

I'd like to hank you for your ongoing assistance. Appreciate it :-)


I'm not sure what exactly do you mean by "open template directly."

What I've been trying is going to "Tools" -> "Templates and Add-Ins..." In the "Templates and Add-Ins..." window is an "Organizer..." button. There I can copy edit the Normal.dotm file, but I haven't been able to change the problematic behavior of Word there.

The "style for following paragraph" in the Modify Style dialogues is set to Normal. It is even on the picture above, it's just not very well visible.