Charles and JimP,

Charles,
The article is very interesting and I will be sure to give it a thorough going over when time permits.

After reading your response, I checked the Default Personal Templates location under the Save section of the Options and it's set to the correct folder. However, I clicked on the File Locations button under General of the Advanced section of the Options and saw that User Templates is pointing to the C drive rather than my network folder location where I keep my templates.

I changed this location, created a new document from my template and bingo, that document had the correct styles. So that was the problem all along.

Thanks you both for all your help.
Red