Maybe I'm missing something here. Why would you want a template to contain links to a set of empty documents? That seems to imply that every new document based on the template needs to link to the same set of documents. Is that correct? If not, you'll at least need to have the source documents sharing common names so that, when the new file is saved into their folder with the INCLUDETEXT fields and relative paths, it'll be able to find the files it's supposed to link to - and they'll all need to be there for the links to work.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]