Make new ones using File > Save As and selecting template as the file type.
When you use File > New and click on Templates ... On my computer...
what do you see? Are your templates there?
For more on the different kinds of templates and locations of templates
folders see
http://addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm.
The interposition of the New Document Task Pane and having to click on "On
my computer..." is a pain for me. I added a button to bring up the New
Document dialog box directly. See Suzanne Barnhill's article at
http://home.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs/CustomizingWord2002.htm for directions
on making the interfaces you are used to available.
--
Charles Kenyon
Word New User FAQ & Web Directory:
http://addbalance.com/word
Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide)
http://addbalance.com/usersguide
See also the MVP FAQ:
http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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