Okay, here's the scoop--

1) I totally agree, but in some instances I have no control over where the templates are stored and what access users have to the files.

2) I'm creating 47 templates (these are actually templates for letters--that's why there's 47 of them) that have a password to ensure that no one goes in and makes any changes (even if they somehow manage to finagle Full access to the folder the templates will be stored in). I've been making updates to all of them, so I've been opening about 20 at a time and noticed that one or two of them are not locked when I open them all together--even though my "Document_Close" macro is supposed to lock them. So, I'm wondering if when I close them as a group, some are not running through that macro correctly. If I make my updates and close them one at a time, they appear to all lock correctly. My concern is that if I do "Save All" instead of just "Save" one at a time, and some don't lock, then a user could potentially mess with that template. I'd like to be sure that they can't mess with any of them.

3) I was also asking about applying the password by macro so I wouldn't have to enter it for each of the 47 templates when I want to make updates to all of them--just wondering if it's possible to shortcut through that somehow.