Thomas,

It's a piece of cake to do that from within Access (your FE) upon
startup. Use an autoexec macro or the On Open event of a switchboard or
main form that opens upon opening the FE (or even a dummy, invisible
form just for the purpose, in lack of the above) to run some simple code
like:

fsource = "\\ServerName\FolderName\SubfolderName\"
ftarget = "C:\LocalFolderName\LocalSubfolderName\"
Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set fldr = fs.GetFolder(fsource)
Set fls = fldr.Files
For Each fl In fls
    If right(fl.Name, 4) = ".dot" Then
        If Dir(ftarget & fl.Name) = ""
            filecopy fsource & fl.Name, ftarget & fl.Name
    End If
    End If
Next
Set fls = Nothing
Set fldr = Nothing
Set fs = Nothing

The code will browse through all files in the source (network) folder,
and for each file with a ".dot" extension (Word template) it will check
if a file with the same name exists in the local folder, and copy it
accross if not.

HTH,
Nikos