WD2000: ErrMsg: "Microsoft Word Err=1041: This document template does not exist" (224020)

ERROR MESSAGE

When you run a macro that depends on a template located in a specific location, the following error message may appear:

Microsoft Word Err=1041:

This document template does not exist.

NOTE: Microsoft Office 2000 has built-in functionality that allows you to get more information about difficult-to-troubleshoot alerts or error messages. If you want to enable this functionality for this and other error messages in Microsoft Office 2000, please download the Microsoft Office 2000 Customizable Alerts file from the Microsoft Office Update Web site at the following address:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8FBEE1D3-C5BB-4A36-A2F7-DC63DE2A818C

NOTE: If you reached this article by clicking the Web Info button in an error message, you already have Customizable Alerts enabled.

THINGS TO TRY

The document template is not in the location that the macro expects.

The document template is corrupt.

For possible resolutions to either cause, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

211620 Starting Word with a template other than normal