Every Word document you've ever created uses a template. That's how Word works and is unavoidable. Granted, you can make copies of an existing document, but even that will have links back to the template it's based on. All you need do to find that out is to look under Developer>Document Template. In most cases, the template is likely to be Word's own 'Normal' template.

IMHO anyone making serious use of Word doesn't have the time not to learn how to use them.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]