Yep. When they open the dot file via the intranet, as long as enable macro's, there is a macro called 'Private Sub Document_Open()' in the ThisDocument vba window that opens up the dialogue box.
Thanks for your info earlier. I changed my macro to look like the following
Private Sub Document_Open()
If ActiveDocument.Type = wdTypeTemplate Then
MsgBox "Please save this file to your local/team drive as a doc file and re-open it." & vbCrLf & _
"To save it as a doc file, change the extension in the 'Save as type' field to 'Word Document (*.doc)'"
With Dialogs(wdDialogFileSaveAs)
.Name = ""
.Type
.Show
End With
ActiveDocument.Close
Else
End If
End Sub
The only thing know is that i want to change the SaveAs dialogue to default to saving as a doc file and not a dot file as the user has to change that part manually.
I tried fiddling with the .Type bit but no luck. Any ideas?