H Charles
Thanks for the suggestion.
I renamed normal.dotm to normalxxx.dotm
Then I clicked on the changed modified normal-normal.dotm I created by saving the template from my 2007 normal.dotm with the font changed to Verdana.
I double clicked on normal-normal and everything worked - keyboard macro shortcuts and macros.
I exited.
I double clicked again and this time it had been automatically saved and the keyboard shortcuts didn't work ( i could see it saved it again by the fact it showed up at the top of the date modified list). Any suggestions? Perhaps I can make it read only.