Sammy,

Although the VBA help identifies 'NormalTemplate' as a property of the
Application object, it also behaves like a template object. (Search the help
for 'normal template' and note that the help gives an example of using the
Save method with NormalTemplate.) This means you can use it with the
CopyStylesFromTemplate method as follows:

ActiveDocument.CopyStylesFromTemplate NormalTemplate

Word 'knows' where the normal template is, so you don't have to worry about
identifying its location.

BTW, as you probably know, the CopyStylesFromTemplate method copies _all_ of
the styles from the source template. If you want to copy only specific styles
from a template, you'll have to use a difference process. And as I found out
the hard way some years back, the OrganizerCopy method has bugs in it. (It
doesn't bloody work!) Consequently, you have to iterate through all of the
styles in the source template and copy them across individually.

Also be aware that the CopyStylesFromTemplate method may not work perfectly,
especially for if a style has numbering. It seems that Word uses a bit of a
shortcut (ListTemplate objects) when defining numbering, and if a user has
customised a list format it may cause a problem as CopyStylesFromTemplate
doesn't copy the ListTemplates. The solution is to make sure you define the
format for the ListTemplate(s) used by any styles prior to copying the styles
in from the source template. I have code for doing this but it's a bit too
complicated to post here - assuming that you're interested...

Cheers!

Hi,

You are confusing Environment variables (and DOS Commands) where what you
are doing would work with VBA.

In VBA you can try something like this:

startpath = environ("appdata")
if len(startpath)> 0 then
wholepath = startpath & "\microsoft\templates\Normal.dot"
endif

Old Man