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Sharing Template with a Customized Toolbar
To speed up the creation and formatting of a specific long document I've
created a template in Word 2003 with a customized toolbar that includes buttons for a number of simple macros eg. applying a specific style; insertign a table with specific formatting; inserting often-used "boilerplate" text as AutoText, etc. Management has now requested that I make this template available to the rest of the department on our sharedrive. But whenever I try to use this template on computer other than my own the new buttons do not work. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. |
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Sharing Template with a Customized Toolbar
Did you save the AutoText entries and macros in the template itself?
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "MiCo1" wrote in message ... To speed up the creation and formatting of a specific long document I've created a template in Word 2003 with a customized toolbar that includes buttons for a number of simple macros eg. applying a specific style; insertign a table with specific formatting; inserting often-used "boilerplate" text as AutoText, etc. Management has now requested that I make this template available to the rest of the department on our sharedrive. But whenever I try to use this template on computer other than my own the new buttons do not work. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. |
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Sharing Template with a Customized Toolbar
As Suzanne implies, the elements you wish to share
(toolbars/macros/autotexts) must be stored in the template, which depending on its proposed use can be a document template or an add-in template. It sounds from the description of the problem that you have the toolbar(s) in the template, but the macros etc in normal.dot. You can move them using the organizer, but you will probably have to re-add the toolbar commands to enable the buttons to locate the revised locations of the elements they call. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org MiCo1 wrote: To speed up the creation and formatting of a specific long document I've created a template in Word 2003 with a customized toolbar that includes buttons for a number of simple macros eg. applying a specific style; insertign a table with specific formatting; inserting often-used "boilerplate" text as AutoText, etc. Management has now requested that I make this template available to the rest of the department on our sharedrive. But whenever I try to use this template on computer other than my own the new buttons do not work. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. |
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Sharing Template with a Customized Toolbar
Excellent assumptions. Creating the template only for my own use --rather
than with the intention of it being shared by multiple users/computer-- when initially recording the macros I hadn't paid close enough attention to a few small but it-turned-out important the details. Many thanks for putting me on the right path. Mike "Graham Mayor" wrote: As Suzanne implies, the elements you wish to share (toolbars/macros/autotexts) must be stored in the template, which depending on its proposed use can be a document template or an add-in template. It sounds from the description of the problem that you have the toolbar(s) in the template, but the macros etc in normal.dot. You can move them using the organizer, but you will probably have to re-add the toolbar commands to enable the buttons to locate the revised locations of the elements they call. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org MiCo1 wrote: To speed up the creation and formatting of a specific long document I've created a template in Word 2003 with a customized toolbar that includes buttons for a number of simple macros eg. applying a specific style; insertign a table with specific formatting; inserting often-used "boilerplate" text as AutoText, etc. Management has now requested that I make this template available to the rest of the department on our sharedrive. But whenever I try to use this template on computer other than my own the new buttons do not work. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. |
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