Andy

Doreen, > I've had a heck of a time finding "helpful" help with MS Word. Check out the Microsoft.Public.Word Newsgroups (for example microsoft.public.word.newusers). Wonderful helpful people in a moderated forum. > I want it to open a New Word Document using "My Template". Maybe this is what you have already ("shortcut on my XP Taskbar"), but in case I didn't understand you correctly: You don't need a macro to do this (altho there's nothing wrong with using a macro to do it). Make a Windows shortcut to My Template. Put the shortcut wherever you want. If you want it on the desktop, right click and drag My Template to the desktop, and select "Create Shortcut Here" (you can rename the shortcut if you don't want to see "My Template.dot"). Double clicking that shortcut will start Word with Document 1 opened based on My Template.dot. You can assign a shortcut key to the shortcut. Andy

Excellent, Kevin! I'll give it a try. Thanks, Andy

Joe, Thanks, but I didn't explain myself well. I wasn't looking for a way to change file attributes. What I want to do is toggle Windows Explorer showing or not showing hidden files, thru the Folder Options dialog box, the View tab. You can get to Folder Options either thru the Control Panel, or in an individual folder thru Tools>Folder Options (even though the View tab changes things globally). Andy

I want to write 2 macros, to Hide and Show hidden folders. Or preferably one macro that would toggle the setting. Is there a way to do this more elegant than recording mouse moves and clicks? I can't seem to find "Folder Options" as a Control Panel Applet. Andy