I've found some posts from people who can't get rid of their command bars but
my problem is the opposite.
In Excel to get a custom commandbar to run at startup I just use:

Private Sub Workbook_Open()
   CreateTheComandBar
End Sub

It can be in any template and if it's in Personal.xls then it'll appear in
all my workbooks.
How do I do the same in Word ?

Private Sub Document_Open()
   CreateTheComandBar
End Sub

...in Normal.dot doesn't work. The same thing in Document_New works for
subsequent new documents but the bar ain't there when I start word.
Running "CreateTheComandBar" from the VBA editor works just fine but if I
close and restart Word it's gone.

Why are Word and Excel *still* so different in their behavior after so many
wonderful years of co-existence ?