Erk? If the document based on the template is saved as a docx, Word will not open it and gives a useless error message. If I rename the docx to docm, Word opens it just fine and the code is still there.

I see that the autorun macro, being in the template, does not run when opening the docm. That helps, although I'd prefer to wipe it from documents that don't need it. But I still need to get it to save as a docm.