Hallo Charles,

I checked out your suggestion and, yes, all .dotm & .dotx templates which we put in the directory "...\microsoft\word" are recognised. That's excellent and we can use this for many things.

However, we tried to set up some key shortcuts and found that we had the option to store the settings in either normal.dotm or in the current document. This surprised us because we were expecting to be able to store these settings in the template that we had put into \startup.

Do you have any thoughts on this?

We're going to try putting the .dotx and .dotm files in the same directory as normal.dotm. Will that help?

Many thanks,
Alan Searle