Please describe EXACTLY the steps that happen.

Are you saying you double click on a template, you get a userform with fields to fill in...and THEN a new document is created.

If you have ANY action happening before a document is visibly created then that code is in Document_New. That is, if the code is in the template.

It seems that there is a bit of confusion between code in Normal, and code that may be in the template.

BTW: you definitely are actioning code that is in Normal if the actions occur with all documents.