Hi,
the solution with the shortcut works great when you're using it in an internet browser. I used it in Sharepoint and reporting services too.
Offcourse when people export the reports to excel, I got the same effort.
My solution?
I create a shortcut to internet explorer and I put as parameter the shortcut to the template of word.

Something like this:
...<server adrres\SHORTCUTS\Launch_IE_With_Template.lnk

The command to launch the IE looks like this:
"<path IE\IEXPLORE.EXE" "<network path\SHORTCUTS\ShortcutToTemplate.lnk"

And this finally works in my report as well as in the exported excel.

greetz 2 @ll

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