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Tony My WinWord/DTS template/macro is in the Okna library. It's named DTSW4W.ZIP, and is experiencing a quite brisk download rate. What does it do? Basically, if you start a new document based on the template, a macro runs which pops up Address Book (whether or not it was running before), and then pops up a dialog based on your selection which lists the home address and business address of the current entry. At this point you can include, exclude or modify any data. There are also user definable defaults for user name and title, and the closing (Sincerely, etc.) and a variety of other features, the most important probably being the ability the define all address elements (for which four fields are provided). You may for example want to display DTS' address lines as 1, 2, 3, or as 1, 3, 2, and then perhaps add the country code by default. Or add some other field as the first line, followed by three address elements. In fact, any valid DDE name can be added, even custom fields. Then you select whether you want to use the Home or Business address, hit OK, and depending on the defaults you have selected, your document gets built from the ground up barring letterhead, which I assume most people will want to build themselves; it is a template, after all. It's a neat macro, based on a version for WordPerfect that has been downloaded literally hundreds of times from various forums (the WinWord version has been downloaded 50 or so times in this library in the last week alone). From the feedback I'm getting, it seems to do its job and to be useful. So if you have WinWord 6.0 or later and DTS 4.0c with BOOK.EXE dated September 1 '93 or later, give it a go; can't hurt. There'll be a new version for WinWord in November, following the release of the new WordPerfect (both macros will be released together, will have the same 'product' name, will be functionally identical, will have many more features, including drop down combo boxes, plus 30 or so user-definable elements, etc. The WordPerfect version is pretty much finished, and I'll finish the WinWord version in the next week or so.) Hope this helps. David P.S. Oh, and it's free.