AFAIK, MS Word uses the NORMAL template as a standard for ALL users; because of that there should be some restrictions to prevent changing it for convinence of one particular user.
If the particular user wants his own template, then he can create a new one and use it in the future.

>Hi Yuri,
>Thanks for your quick answer. Let clearify. I don't want to create a document (.doC) I just want the user to be able to modify a Template (.doT) but Word insists on opening a template to be used as such and when I save it as a .doT it requests another name, it does not like to save this as a template.
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>Peter
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>>Method "add" provides you with options. As in VBA for Word help:
>>*--------------
>>expression.Add(Template, NewTemplate)
>>expression Required. An expression that returns a Documents object.
>>Template Optional Variant. The name of the template to be used for the new document. If this argument is omitted, the Normal template is used.
>>NewTemplate Optional Variant. True to open the document as a template. The default value is False.
>>*----------------------
>>Thus depending on what do you mean, "open a word template file", you may use:
>>- oWord.Documents.add() to open a new document based on the Normal template;
>>- oWord.Documents.add(,.t.) to open a new template based on the Normal template;
>>- oWord.Documents.add("C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\yourtemplate.DOT",.t.) to open a new template based on the custom template.
>>
>>In all cases you may SAVEAS the document as template with .dot extension.
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>>>How can I open a word template file and save it as a .doT file.
>>>I need to be able to programmatically open a .dot, let the user modify it and then save it again in the same space as a .dot.
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>Peter