Originally Posted by Charles Kenyon

1) For those who will be using Word 2000, save your document as a Word 2000 template (not simply a .dot file).
What do you mean with "not simply a .dot-file? I save it as a 97- 2003 template, that is the only .dot format I can see?! Is there any other .dot format?

2) Themes are intended to allow a person to quickly change the look and feel of a document by changing a theme. Do you want your 2010 users to be able to do this with your template? I think not. To avoid this in the Word 2010 template will require (I think) use of custom styles not based on built-in styles with a formatting restriction to only use those styles. In any case, distributing the theme separately would be a real headache unless you are using installation software.
Well, my only wish is to give them a document with:
a) My paragraph styles and Museo (the font) as the default-font.
If I can make the font-embedding work I think my company-paragraph-styles in combination with setting the standard font will take care of that.

b) The company selection of preferred colours.
This seems like a bigger problem if I not using the theme-colour witch I can't if Im going to save it as a 97-2003-template.
So HOW do I set the company colour-scheme for them to chose from???
Styles won't do it as far as I can understand?!

3) The setting for Automatically update styles from template should be turned off (unchecked).
Where can I find this checkbox?

Colours are nice. Will all users be using colour printers? Have you discussed this with your customer?
There is hardly any B&W printers left in the offices today and most letters are sent by e-mail or as pdf anyway. The correct colour is an important part of the company's brand in all marketing material and even letters.
The question is HOW do I get the company colour scheme available in the document without using theme-colour?

Finally, unless there is some strong reason to do otherwise (like using content controls in Word 2010) I would distribute the template designed for Word 2000 to all users.
I agree! The only reason was if I needed to use Themes to distribute fonts and colour. But if that can be solved in other ways, no one is happier then me