location of templates (word 97)

[gellwood]

I have a .dot that creates assembles a document and saves it for the user. It runs fine as long as the template is somewhere underneath crogram filesmicrosoft officetemplates. If I put it anywhere else then it still runs fine, but the document that it assembles causes Word to shut down any time it is opened. Ouch! I have spent the afternoon working with the Tools, Options, File Locations, User Templates and Workgroup Templates, but nothing that I change here seems to help. Anybody out there have advice?

[Andrew Lockton]

Is Word crashing or closing?

If you hold the shift key when opening the file does it still shut down upon opening?

[Gary Frieder]

Gwenda,

Never heard of that one - weird!
The only thing I can think of that might relate to the template location is: if the assembled document retains a 'based-on' reference to the originating template, and that originating template is stored in a location that is not specified as either the User Templates or Workgroup Templates location, then a macro warning dialog is going to appear when the document is opened - but that shouldn't of itself cause Word to crash.

Is there anything out of the ordinary about the documents that are being assembled - for instance are you doing anything like associating VBA code with the documents (as opposed to keeping it in the template)?
Is there any unusual code in a Document_Open or AutoOpen procedure in either the document or the template?

Gary