Normal.dot is actually superglobal. Not only is it the default document
template, but it also provides toolbars, macros, AutoText, keyboard
shortcuts, and the like to all documents, even those based on other
templates except when the specific document template overrides its settings.

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"Doug Robbins" wrote in message
...
Any macros/toolbars in a template that is saved into the Word Start-Up
folder (usually located in C:\Documents and Settings\[User
Name]\Application
Data\Microsoft\Word\Startup) are available globally for use in all
documents, regardless of the template from which the individual documents
are created.

In this instance, that is what the OP means by Global Template. If you
select Templates and Add-ins from the Tools menu, you will see a section
of
the dialog for Global templates and add-ins. Note that the normal.dot
template is not listed in that section of the dialog and it is not correct
to consider it as a "global" template. Rather, it is the default template
that is used for a document when the "New blank document" button on the
toolbar is used to start a new document or when the Blank document
template
is selected in the FileNew dialog

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Hope this helps.

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"Joe McGuire" wrote in message
...
With respect I don't understand what you are trying to do. Any
templates
you save in your User Templates folder (Tools, Options, File Locations)
ought to show up when you click File, New--and depending on your veroisn
of Word you may have to tell Word that the templates are on your
computer
(duh!). If you want to add something to your Fax Cover Template or
change
something in it, you ought to open that template itself and make the
changes. You don't have to create a new template, although you can
accomplish the same thing by just opening a new document based on that
template, making the changes and then saving it as a template--which,
for
Word I guess technically amounts to a new template. Maybe I don't
understand the "Global" part, in which case I apologize. But the only
"global" template I know of is Normal.dot. That is the thing Word often
asks me if I want to modify--usually a sure sign Word did something
nasty
behind my back. I am not really sure what these other things--like
Templates & Addins--are for. Hey there is one heck of a lot about Word
I
don't understand. Some of it is utterly beyond me. Like macros. Tried
to read 2 books on the subject (one of them was for beginners!!!) and
decided there are certain mysteries some us are just not meant to plumb.
But I certainly have modified my own fax cover templates--many times, in
fact--and this is how I have done it without any problems. And I have
made changes to Normal.dot this way, too.

"klam" wrote in message
...
What exact steps are needed to save a Global Template?

I have read the Checkbox Template Notes document and the one on
templates
at
the addbalance.com website (both very informative). However, I am
still
unclear on the exact steps to achieve this.

I saved it as CheckboxTemplate.dot into my User Templates folder and
then
used Templates & Add-ins Add and it looked like it added it to a
global
template (it was listed with a check mark in the box like the Adobe
ones
listed). But when I try to add the Check Marks it did not show the
option.

Then I tried another approach. Through Tools Options, I found the
location of the Startup for Word, and copied the CheckboxTemplate.dot
to
that
folder. Closed Word, opened it up, and when I went to View Toolbars
the
CheckBox Toggle toolbar was not listed.

Help pls. All I want to be able to do is add check-able boxes to my
fax
cover page(without creating a whole form)! Working on a stand-alone
WP2000
on XP.

TIA!