gmayor:

Thanks, I was saving it as a macro-enabled doc, the problem seems to have been that I was putting the code in the project (in the document, basically) rather than in a template. I moved it into the normal template and the code now stays when I close and reopen. I think creating a template for this document and then creating new ones from that will be the way to go, just learning about all that,

Thanks very much for the advice about the placeholder text, that works.