Word templates not opening as new documents

You are right, the icons do not look correct and they are NOT being recognised as being of the Type Microsoft Word Macro-Enabled Template.

What do you see if you right click on the Ortho tests item, which does have a icon of the correct type.

If you do open\edit a file such as the IR-Shoulder and then use File>SaveAs and select Word Macro-Enabled Templates (*.dotm) from the Save As type: dropdown (probably using a new filename) does the resulting file then have the correct icon?

If not, try copying everything except for the final paragraph mark (¶) in the document and paste it into a new document that you then save as a Word Macro-Enabled Template and see if it has the correct icon.

Take a look at the template document icons. They don't look right.

Can you provide a screen shot of the right click menu

In your video, the template is opened as Document8 without showing the extension.

That is clearly not going to overwrite the template on save.

You say that default "New" behavior has worked that way for years. My god, that is the point of this second generation thread. It does NOT work that way on my machine.

Are you telling me that if I double-click a .dotm on my machine, it will open in "New" mode, or that I can right-click and select NEW?

As I've said several times already, on the laptop, the "New" option is NOT in the context (right-click) menu. The only option is "Edit."

Look at the videos again. In neither of them did the document open with a file extension after the Document#!

If you OPEN the dotm,

it is the template itself that you are opening and as a result it shows the name of the template IR-Shoulder.dotm and if you make any changes and then click on Save, those changes will be made to the template itself, which would normally not be the desired result. If you use FIle>Save As, the file type will be Word Macro-Enabled Template (*.dotm) because that is the type of file. It will not be *.docm or *,docx, regardless if one of those types is set as the default under File>Options>Save.

However, the default double click action for a template is that shown in bold font - New and if you click on New or double click, the document that appears on the screen with the Document# That document is created from the template and contains a reference to the template so that the code in the template is available for use with that document.

WORD HAS WORKED THIS WAY FOR THE LAST 25 YEARS AT LEAST!