Thanks, Paul,

It struck me today that I'd written a bad example. Clearly it is easiest to have a 100% match between the topic name in the list (in Excel) and the file name - so that the file name is <topic name>.docx

The topic list and the created files can be in the same directory X:\...\anywhere\

The tricky thing seems to me to link in a .dot template.

I've never written a Word macro, so if you can help me here, I will be very grateful!