Implementing templates for users is a bit of an artform but there is no reason why your users would have to interact with anything other than your template.

I would be delivering the .dotm template and allowing the users to create .docx files from that template. That way the code sits in the 'attached template' and the document content includes the full transcript and background xml data.

If you read up on Greg's site and also have a look at his CC tool template I think you may even be able to roll out a no macro template but the user interactions would be easier with macros and ribbon buttons.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

The point of the template I'm working on IS macros, creating shortcuts for a typist to make a long complicated, formatted document using macros and forms. A lot of the work is done by text expanders, but creating some of the formatting can't be done with the simple expanders available.

Thank you so much for this help. I'm going to look through this and see if I can wrap my little peapicking brain around XML.