macro template problem

There are two options, neither of which entirely fits your requirements.

1. Set the Word Startup folder for all the users to a common location, set that folder as a trusted folder and put your global templates there.

2. Leave the Word Startup folder where it is and provide each user with a macro for their normal template to check (and if necessary add) the added, but unchecked templates from their central location when Word is started e.g. as follows

Sub AutoExec()
Dim oTemplate As AddIn
Dim bTemplate As Boolean
Const strAddInPath As String = "C:\Path\" 'The common add-in template location

    'repeat for each add-in
    bTemplate = False
    For Each oTemplate In Application.AddIns
        If oTemplate.name = "Add-in Name.dotm" Then
            AddIns(strAddInPath & oTemplate.name).Installed = True
            bTemplate = True
            Exit For
        End If
    Next oTemplate
    If Not bTemplate Then
        AddIns.Add Filename:=strAddInPath & "Add-in Name.dotm", Install:=True
    End If
    'end of repeat

End Sub

Thank you for the quick response.

I will check out if either of your solutions could help me, though as you said they do not fill entirely my requirements. But thank you any way. 

- Joonas-Matti

A large organization which I worked with earlier this year pushes (via a login script) any global template updates to each user's startup folders each time they log into their work station. 

Is there a reason you are not using macros in 'attached templates'? 

You can add a shortcut in the startup directory that points to a template stored elsewhere. This would give you a template checked as default but actually installed somewhere other than the startup folder.

Okay thank you, I will look into these solutions. 

Yes there is reason why we cannot use macros integrated to Word documents. We are using third party software for resource planning & management and that does not understand Word documents which include macros. So it has to be done by macro templates. 

I think "login script" might be best option for our purposes. Is that DOS batch file, which just copies files from network location and replaces old ones in Word's startup folder? Simple solutions are usually best ones. 

I wish I could tell you for certain that it was simple and just a DOS batch file, but I really don't know anything about login scripts (what they are or how difficult too implement).  I can say that the IT types I worked with made it sound very simple.