Jean-Guy

Thanks for this I am aware of the global template against Normal.dot,
however the company I work for requires that all new documents created on
their machines ahve to have restriction markings dependent on the
classification of the content of the document. Therefore ideally it would be
best to set the normal.dot with all the necessary details etc and subsequent
coding in the document open and document new in the document object of the
normal.dot.

This could be done by a complete over write of all normal.dots on all
machine however this would create problems with personal macros of people who
have stored them in the normal.dot.

Hence the request to know if it is possible using vb code to open the
normal.dot set a refernce to globally mounted template men and then insert
code into the sub routines of the document object Private Sub Document_New()
and Private Sub Document_open().

If this is posible then it would save the issue of trying to educate users
on saving their macros  to a template and setting it as a add in.... If this
makes sense.

The code you gave opened the normal template but is it pos to reference and
setup the sub procedures without physically typing it in?

Thanks in anticipation.

Fred