When creating user forms in via ms word the form will not save when I close the document, when using via ms excel the user forms are save. What is stopping the forms from being save?

Are you saving the document as macro enabled?
Is the userform actually in the document and not in the normal template?

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I have try with user forms in the normal template and the doc. They appear in the folder but when I close the doc they are not they when I reopen the doc. User forms are saved in excel vba but not in word can.

You haven't answered the question! When you save the document, what file format are you saving it in? Documents saved in the docx format cannot contain macros (or userforms); only Documents saved in the doc or docm formats can. It's the same with Excel (i.e. Workbooks saved in the xlsx format cannot contain macros (or userforms)).

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