Jef, using the ":" form of the path, you do not start at 'Volumes' you would start at 'Mac1HD' I suspect the default configuration of Word is actually picking the behaviour. Your script may not actually be working in the second line. The first line tells Word to make a new document. Is the default configuration on the iMac to open a template and on the iBook to open a document? You can try this manually and see what behaviour is default. Lloyd > From: "J.L. Slangen" <[log in to unmask]> > Date: November 8, 2007 10:59:13 AM EST > Subject: Same script - different results > > > I have an iMac running OS X version 10.4.10 and an iBook running OS X > version 10.3.9. > Office:Mac 2004 is running on both machines. > The following script produces different results. > > set templatePath to > "Volumes:Mac1HD:Home:Documents:MyTemplates:Memo.dot" > tell application "Microsoft Word" > set memoDoc to make document > set attached template of memoDoc to templatePath > end tell > > On iMac the attached template of the new document is "Memo.dot" and on > iBook the attached template is "Normal". The path contained in > templatePath is ignored on the iBook. On the iMac there are two > templates "Memo.dot" and "Normal". > I have no idea why this is so. Does anybody know a workaround?