Files that simply referenced 'normal' are unlikely to have needed a change, since they simply pick up whatever the current path to 'normal' is; it's only those that referenced a custom template, for which a file path will have been stored, that need changing - which is what the macro does.
These two statements seem mutually exclusive; either the macro changes something or it doesn't. As for document referencing a template in "c:\templates", those would only change if you used "c:\templates" as the old path - the macro only changes the one path you give it, not any others. In any event, since those files aren't referencing templates on a network share, I wouldn't expect to see any lag when opening them.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]