Hello all,

I've written macros that create a menu list on the menu bar, modified some
shortcut menus, and adds a toolbar, all custom designed to run other macros
that I have written.  I saved the document as a .dot template and stored in
the word start-up directory.  All menus are created fine.  The problem is,
when I load it as a global template, Word saves all the menu modifications to
normal.dot.  I've written macros to delete the menus on exit, but they still
exist in the normal.dot file. This is a problem particularly with the toolbar
menu which gets duplicated in normal.dot everytime word is started with the
gloabl template I designed.  

Is there a way to prevent Word from modifying the normal.dot file when I run
macros that create custom menus,  or is there another way to prevent this
problem?  The problem persists with Word 2000 and 2003.  I tried deleting the
normal.dot file in case it was corrupted, but that didn't fix the problem.

Thanks in advance,

Microsmith