No, you're misusing a Word document as a template. Saving it in the dotx or dotm format, as appropriate, will create a true template. As such, any new document created from the template (e.g. by double-clicking on the template) will not easily be saved over template as the new document won't have the template's name.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]