Create 2007 template with mandatory keywords/tags

[Jim]

I'm trying to organize our systems' documentation (Word 2003/2007) in
Sharepoint 2007. To that end, I want to create standard doc templates for
several documentation types (installing, recovery, etc.).

I would like to include about a half-dozen, mandatory "fields" that are
mapped to tags/keywords to make Sharepoint indexing and searching faster,
more reliable and more accurate. Kind of like the MS knowledgebase.

If I could find some pre-built templates, that's be sweet. But, I'd prefer
to know how to build 'em myself.

Any ideas or tips?

thanks!