Thank you Charles and Suzanne. That's a ton of useful information!

When I am creating my global template, I understand that file must be open
in my workspace. At one point after copying macros from the normal.dot
file, one of the instructions is to "use the VBA editor to look at the New
Macros module in your template". With the Global Template open I hit
Alt-F11 and appear to get the list of macros that are loaded into the
Normal.dot file. The title bar indicates that I am looking at the Normal
file. I looked around and found something under "View" called "Project
Explorer" and I think I was able to select the newmacros module in my golbal
template file there. Am I correct in thinking that I'm in the right place
for that?

Also, and I apologize if this a very basic question, but I'm wondering, if
you can just copy the macros from normal.dot, what is the point of requiring
that the global template be open when I am creating those macros?

Thanks.
Deb