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Customised toolbar disappearing
I have a similar problem: My cusomized toolbars do stick - indeed. Until I
for some/any/whatever reason lose my Normal.dot file. Not a total disaster: I've learned to back up my macros, my VBA projects and such. However - any customized/created Toolbar I've have running - disapear. I have to create new ones. This is annoying - indeed. Any way to backup my toolbars? "asif" skrev: I use Windows XP Pro, Office 2003 in a domain enviornment. I create a customized toolbar of my choice for my daily work. When I shut down my machine and come back next day, that toolbar setting is all gone. And I have to recreate the tool bar everyday.. How Can I keep the toolbar settings of my choice. TIA |
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You have answered your own question. The toolbars are saved in normal.dot -
backup that file. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Vincent wrote: I have a similar problem: My cusomized toolbars do stick - indeed. Until I for some/any/whatever reason lose my Normal.dot file. Not a total disaster: I've learned to back up my macros, my VBA projects and such. However - any customized/created Toolbar I've have running - disapear. I have to create new ones. This is annoying - indeed. Any way to backup my toolbars? "asif" skrev: I use Windows XP Pro, Office 2003 in a domain enviornment. I create a customized toolbar of my choice for my daily work. When I shut down my machine and come back next day, that toolbar setting is all gone. And I have to recreate the tool bar everyday.. How Can I keep the toolbar settings of my choice. TIA |
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Ah if that were the case - so easy things would be. However - in the real
world, things aren't. They don't stick in normal.dot. No matter how many times I backup this file - they just dont. Nor do some other customizations: like all the macros I've implemented. But that is OK, you can backup these - one by one if so desired. Other things like Autotext n such - I don't know so much about, I never use them, but then again - there are tools built in the program to backup/transpose these settings... Toolbars - alas. Remain unbackable. "Graham Mayor" skrev: You have answered your own question. The toolbars are saved in normal.dot - backup that file. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Vincent wrote: I have a similar problem: My cusomized toolbars do stick - indeed. Until I for some/any/whatever reason lose my Normal.dot file. Not a total disaster: I've learned to back up my macros, my VBA projects and such. However - any customized/created Toolbar I've have running - disapear. I have to create new ones. This is annoying - indeed. Any way to backup my toolbars? "asif" skrev: I use Windows XP Pro, Office 2003 in a domain enviornment. I create a customized toolbar of my choice for my daily work. When I shut down my machine and come back next day, that toolbar setting is all gone. And I have to recreate the tool bar everyday.. How Can I keep the toolbar settings of my choice. TIA |
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Custom toolbars are stored in templates and documents - by default they are
stored in normal.dot. You indicated in your original post that if you lose your normal.dot file that the toolbars are lost. This would suggest that yours are stored in the default place. If normal.dot is deleted or removed for whatever reason, Word will build a new default normal.dot without the personalisations. You would need to replace this with your customised copy. The standard toolbars are stored in the registry. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Vincent wrote: Ah if that were the case - so easy things would be. However - in the real world, things aren't. They don't stick in normal.dot. No matter how many times I backup this file - they just don't. Nor do some other customizations: like all the macros I've implemented. But that is OK, you can backup these - one by one if so desired. Other things like Autotext n such - I don't know so much about, I never use them, but then again - there are tools built in the program to backup/transpose these settings... Toolbars - alas. Remain unbackable. "Graham Mayor" skrev: You have answered your own question. The toolbars are saved in normal.dot - backup that file. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Vincent wrote: I have a similar problem: My cusomized toolbars do stick - indeed. Until I for some/any/whatever reason lose my Normal.dot file. Not a total disaster: I've learned to back up my macros, my VBA projects and such. However - any customized/created Toolbar I've have running - disappear. I have to create new ones. This is annoying - indeed. Any way to backup my toolbars? "asif" skrev: I use Windows XP Pro, Office 2003 in a domain enviornment. I create a customized toolbar of my choice for my daily work. When I shut down my machine and come back next day, that toolbar setting is all gone. And I have to recreate the tool bar everyday.. How Can I keep the toolbar settings of my choice. TIA |
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Ok Ill try to explain myself once again.
1. I have no problem with the concept of normal.dot, nor using backing it up for that matter. 2. I never have any template stored in its default place. Not even at my homebased computer would I do that. Computers crash all the time. At work the network-OP (guess what not from Microsoft) derives me of my settings from time to time this gives me 45 minutes work to restore. 3. I know of Normal.Dot, what it does, what its supposed to do and what it doesnt do¦ 4. Not only do my own toolbars cease to exist, my own customized shortcuts vanish as well. 5. Replacing the new normal.dot with an old fully functioning one does solve the problem at times. But this remains being a workaround, not something I can show to other users. Not something to implement in an organisation. There seems to be no solution to this, guess ill just have to grin and bear it "Graham Mayor" skrev: Custom toolbars are stored in templates and documents - by default they are stored in normal.dot. You indicated in your original post that if you lose your normal.dot file that the toolbars are lost. This would suggest that yours are stored in the default place. If normal.dot is deleted or removed for whatever reason, Word will build a new default normal.dot without the personalisations. You would need to replace this with your customised copy. The standard toolbars are stored in the registry. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Vincent wrote: Ah if that were the case - so easy things would be. However - in the real world, things aren't. They don't stick in normal.dot. No matter how many times I backup this file - they just don't. Nor do some other customizations: like all the macros I've implemented. But that is OK, you can backup these - one by one if so desired. Other things like Autotext n such - I don't know so much about, I never use them, but then again - there are tools built in the program to backup/transpose these settings... Toolbars - alas. Remain unbackable. "Graham Mayor" skrev: You have answered your own question. The toolbars are saved in normal.dot - backup that file. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Vincent wrote: I have a similar problem: My cusomized toolbars do stick - indeed. Until I for some/any/whatever reason lose my Normal.dot file. Not a total disaster: I've learned to back up my macros, my VBA projects and such. However - any customized/created Toolbar I've have running - disappear. I have to create new ones. This is annoying - indeed. Any way to backup my toolbars? "asif" skrev: I use Windows XP Pro, Office 2003 in a domain enviornment. I create a customized toolbar of my choice for my daily work. When I shut down my machine and come back next day, that toolbar setting is all gone. And I have to recreate the tool bar everyday.. How Can I keep the toolbar settings of my choice. TIA |
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If your network configuration causes the normal.dot file to be replaced,
then you need to change the network setting that causes this. It may be better if you moved your personal toolbars etc to a global add-in - see http://www.gmayor.com/Template_Locations.htm. See also http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/FilesToBackup.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Vincent wrote: Ok - I'll try to explain myself once again. 1. I have no problem with the concept of normal.dot, nor using backing it up for that matter. 2. I never have any template stored in its default place. Not even at my homebased computer would I do that. Computers crash - all the time. At work the network-OP (guess what - not from Microsoft) derives me of my settings from time to time - this gives me 45 minutes work to restore. 3. I know of Normal.Dot, what it does, what its supposed to do and what it doesn't do. 4. Not only do "my own" toolbars cease to exist, my own customized shortcuts vanish as well. 5. Replacing the new normal.dot with an old fully functioning one does solve the problem - at times. But this remains being a workaround, not something I can show to other users. Not something to implement in an organisation. There seems to be no solution to this, guess ill just have to "grin and bear it" "Graham Mayor" skrev: Custom toolbars are stored in templates and documents - by default they are stored in normal.dot. You indicated in your original post that if you lose your normal.dot file that the toolbars are lost. This would suggest that yours are stored in the default place. If normal.dot is deleted or removed for whatever reason, Word will build a new default normal.dot without the personalisations. You would need to replace this with your customised copy. The standard toolbars are stored in the registry. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Vincent wrote: Ah if that were the case - so easy things would be. However - in the real world, things aren't. They don't stick in normal.dot. No matter how many times I backup this file - they just don't. Nor do some other customizations: like all the macros I've implemented. But that is OK, you can backup these - one by one if so desired. Other things like Autotext n such - I don't know so much about, I never use them, but then again - there are tools built in the program to backup/transpose these settings... Toolbars - alas. Remain unbackable. "Graham Mayor" skrev: You have answered your own question. The toolbars are saved in normal.dot - backup that file. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Vincent wrote: I have a similar problem: My cusomized toolbars do stick - indeed. Until I for some/any/whatever reason lose my Normal.dot file. Not a total disaster: I've learned to back up my macros, my VBA projects and such. However - any customized/created Toolbar I've have running - disappear. I have to create new ones. This is annoying - indeed. Any way to backup my toolbars? "asif" skrev: I use Windows XP Pro, Office 2003 in a domain enviornment. I create a customized toolbar of my choice for my daily work. When I shut down my machine and come back next day, that toolbar setting is all gone. And I have to recreate the tool bar everyday.. How Can I keep the toolbar settings of my choice. TIA |
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See this is what I what I looked/asked for from the beginning. Only I
have yet to learn to formulate i.e. pinpoint the problem. Without even reading the links provided! Im quite sure I've come to solution. Thanks "Graham Mayor" skrev: If your network configuration causes the normal.dot file to be replaced, then you need to change the network setting that causes this. It may be better if you moved your personal toolbars etc to a global add-in - see http://www.gmayor.com/Template_Locations.htm. See also http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/FilesToBackup.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Vincent wrote: Ok - I'll try to explain myself once again. 1. I have no problem with the concept of normal.dot, nor using backing it up for that matter. 2. I never have any template stored in its default place. Not even at my homebased computer would I do that. Computers crash - all the time. At work the network-OP (guess what - not from Microsoft) derives me of my settings from time to time - this gives me 45 minutes work to restore. 3. I know of Normal.Dot, what it does, what its supposed to do and what it doesn't do. 4. Not only do "my own" toolbars cease to exist, my own customized shortcuts vanish as well. 5. Replacing the new normal.dot with an old fully functioning one does solve the problem - at times. But this remains being a workaround, not something I can show to other users. Not something to implement in an organisation. There seems to be no solution to this, guess ill just have to "grin and bear it" "Graham Mayor" skrev: Custom toolbars are stored in templates and documents - by default they are stored in normal.dot. You indicated in your original post that if you lose your normal.dot file that the toolbars are lost. This would suggest that yours are stored in the default place. If normal.dot is deleted or removed for whatever reason, Word will build a new default normal.dot without the personalisations. You would need to replace this with your customised copy. The standard toolbars are stored in the registry. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Vincent wrote: Ah if that were the case - so easy things would be. However - in the real world, things aren't. They don't stick in normal.dot. No matter how many times I backup this file - they just don't. Nor do some other customizations: like all the macros I've implemented. But that is OK, you can backup these - one by one if so desired. Other things like Autotext n such - I don't know so much about, I never use them, but then again - there are tools built in the program to backup/transpose these settings... Toolbars - alas. Remain unbackable. "Graham Mayor" skrev: You have answered your own question. The toolbars are saved in normal.dot - backup that file. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Vincent wrote: I have a similar problem: My cusomized toolbars do stick - indeed. Until I for some/any/whatever reason lose my Normal.dot file. Not a total disaster: I've learned to back up my macros, my VBA projects and such. However - any customized/created Toolbar I've have running - disappear. I have to create new ones. This is annoying - indeed. Any way to backup my toolbars? "asif" skrev: I use Windows XP Pro, Office 2003 in a domain enviornment. I create a customized toolbar of my choice for my daily work. When I shut down my machine and come back next day, that toolbar setting is all gone. And I have to recreate the tool bar everyday.. How Can I keep the toolbar settings of my choice. TIA |
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See http://addbalance.com/word/movetotemplate.htm for step-by-step
instructions on moving / sharing / copying / backing-up customizations including AutoText, AutoCorrect, keyboard assignments, toolbars, macros, etc. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Vincent" wrote in message ... See - this is what I what I looked/asked for from the beginning. Only - I have yet to learn to formulate i.e. pinpoint "the problem". Without even reading the links provided! I'm quite sure I've come to solution. Thanks "Graham Mayor" skrev: If your network configuration causes the normal.dot file to be replaced, then you need to change the network setting that causes this. It may be better if you moved your personal toolbars etc to a global add-in - see http://www.gmayor.com/Template_Locations.htm. See also http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/FilesToBackup.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Vincent wrote: Ok - I'll try to explain myself once again. 1. I have no problem with the concept of normal.dot, nor using backing it up for that matter. 2. I never have any template stored in its default place. Not even at my homebased computer would I do that. Computers crash - all the time. At work the network-OP (guess what - not from Microsoft) derives me of my settings from time to time - this gives me 45 minutes work to restore. 3. I know of Normal.Dot, what it does, what its supposed to do and what it doesn't do. 4. Not only do "my own" toolbars cease to exist, my own customized shortcuts vanish as well. 5. Replacing the new normal.dot with an old fully functioning one does solve the problem - at times. But this remains being a workaround, not something I can show to other users. Not something to implement in an organisation. There seems to be no solution to this, guess ill just have to "grin and bear it" "Graham Mayor" skrev: Custom toolbars are stored in templates and documents - by default they are stored in normal.dot. You indicated in your original post that if you lose your normal.dot file that the toolbars are lost. This would suggest that yours are stored in the default place. If normal.dot is deleted or removed for whatever reason, Word will build a new default normal.dot without the personalisations. You would need to replace this with your customised copy. The standard toolbars are stored in the registry. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Vincent wrote: Ah if that were the case - so easy things would be. However - in the real world, things aren't. They don't stick in normal.dot. No matter how many times I backup this file - they just don't. Nor do some other customizations: like all the macros I've implemented. But that is OK, you can backup these - one by one if so desired. Other things like Autotext n such - I don't know so much about, I never use them, but then again - there are tools built in the program to backup/transpose these settings... Toolbars - alas. Remain unbackable. "Graham Mayor" skrev: You have answered your own question. The toolbars are saved in normal.dot - backup that file. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Vincent wrote: I have a similar problem: My cusomized toolbars do stick - indeed. Until I for some/any/whatever reason lose my Normal.dot file. Not a total disaster: I've learned to back up my macros, my VBA projects and such. However - any customized/created Toolbar I've have running - disappear. I have to create new ones. This is annoying - indeed. Any way to backup my toolbars? "asif" skrev: I use Windows XP Pro, Office 2003 in a domain enviornment. I create a customized toolbar of my choice for my daily work. When I shut down my machine and come back next day, that toolbar setting is all gone. And I have to recreate the tool bar everyday.. How Can I keep the toolbar settings of my choice. TIA |
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I have a similar problem with Asif's.
Fortunately, I do not have to re-customize everytime I start up. I am puzzled that after a lapse of perhaps several months, my toolbar settings are suddenly restored to default. What could have possibly trigger the restoration? And is there anyway I could save my customized setting (make it default?) so that I may retrive it? EV "asif" wrote: I use Windows XP Pro, Office 2003 in a domain enviornment. I create a customized toolbar of my choice for my daily work. When I shut down my machine and come back next day, that toolbar setting is all gone. And I have to recreate the tool bar everyday.. How Can I keep the toolbar settings of my choice. TIA |
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