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Not altogether certain what you are seeing. In order for a template to be a default template it needs to live in C:\Documents and Settings\"userprofile"\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates.

I think that you can unzip your file to that directory. But you will be touching all the workstations to do that. When I have sent templates to an end user, I can generally email the file along with step by step instructions and get the users to place them appropriately.

That's where the problem is. Somehow another tab got created that said shortcut to and the name of the file where these new templates are. I just don't know why it did it when I saved the templates to the network drive and did not when I saved to the c drive.

Here's a solutuion that I use:

[1] Make sure all the affected users have the same drive letter mapped to their network storage area. We use "U:\"

[2] Create a folder on everyone's U drive called Word Templates and give yourself "write" privileges to these folders.

[3] Copy all the templates into all the "Word Templates" folders. This sounds like a lot of work, but is incredibly fast if you write a script to do it for you.

[4] For all the affected users, open Word, then under Tools+Options+FileLocations point the "User templates" to the Word Templates folder.

Now you can distribute new templates to all these folks anytime you want to. Unfortunately if they're using laptops the templates won't follow them out of the office....

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