That's an intesesting idea, but I am not sure it could be launched from the menu macro.
Vertico, thank you for the informative post, I now know that I am not going crazy
Every thing that was happening to me is confirmed in your post.
I found that using a VBA expression does the trick.
Here is how it works if anyone is interested:
Note:If you have a support path to your template files, you only need to put the template file name, not the entire path
^C^Cvbastmt;Application.Documents.add ("K:\Path to template file")
After you run the macro, you will notice that a new drawing (.dwg) is created just as it would be with going to File-New-template file
Mark