Dear Charles,

You make an interesting point here ...

"by adding one or more templates to the Startup Folder. If you have your modifications in the template they work for the user"

This could help us so I was wondering which Startup Folder do you mean? Is this for Windows? Or for Word? I scanned our drives and Normal.dotm seems to be in ... \microsoft\templates. Is this where you mean?

Indeed, we could maybe programmatically copy specific .dotx and .dotm files there so that they are picked up by the application. This could solve a whole host of other issues that we have and which we are trying to solve programmatically.

Many, many thanks for any further tips that you can give us.

Regards and thanks,
Alan Searle

Cologne