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LegalBear:

Put your custom menu on a custom Toolbar in Word 2000. Attach the toolbar to
a document, any doument, and save it. Open the document in Word 2007 and your
custom toolbar that includes your custom menu will appear on the Add-Ins tab
of the ribbon. Right-click on the custom toolbar and choose to add it to the
Quick Access Toolbar. Now you will have easy access to it 100% of the time in
all documents. If you have several custom toolbars, you can add the entire
Custom Toolbars group to the QAT for nested access.

The ribbon will improve your productivity so much that it pays for itself in
the first month. I will be playing golf this afternoon while the rest of you
are still fooling around creating documents with the old toolbar
interface.The ribbon is a far better approach, much better organized, and
easier to use.

HTH,

=Mac=


"Legalbear" wrote:

This is addressed to the folks who have created the 3rd-party add-ins to
restore the menu/toolbar functionality of Word 2000/2003.

Does your add-in allow for the creation of custom menus??

I'm currently using Word 2000 and have a customized menu setup for all the
various legal documents/pleadings I use everyday, with various sub-menus for
motions, notices, orders, objections and so forth as well as documents used
solely within our office.

It works off of one menu button with a number of items, each of which opens
onto several cascading sub-menus of individual documents (most all of which
are merge documents, if that matters). It's ridiculously easy to use:
1. click the menu button
2. mouse-over to what you want to open
3. click that document name.

For me to use your product, and recommend it to the rest of the firm (since
I'm the one who sets all this stuff up on individual machines), I need to be
able to add/remove individual items as necessary.

A speedy response would be GREATLY welcome, as I'd rather not *have* to add
Office 2000 on our pre-installed Office 2007 machines.

Thanks for your time.