Thanks again, Jon. It worked the first time! I discovered another minor problem, but it was easily fixed. The file name I created did not have an extension, so Word was saving the file as ".dot" since the template was so named. I appended the ".doc" to my file name, and this problem was corrected.

Since I tried several different things like "Application...", I was pretty sure that the problem was my understanding of objects. I've been looking at the VBE help files, but I'm obviously missing something. When I use VBE, I see that it SOMETIMES provides parameter choices for various objects. Other times it does not, especially when I am trying to correct a problem.

How would you reccomend that I approach this? I basically guess until I get the correct object. I also noticed that your solution as opposed to my attempts has few parameters. I think I am including defaults whereas you are just taking them. How am I supposed to learn this? I've seen nothing in the doc (meaning help files) to indicate defaults. Your solution is certainly less CLUTTERED than my attempts!

Thanks again.