[Larry]

This branches off from my discussion with Bob Buckland under the subject
line "Custom toolbars and menus in 2007."

Two questions:

1. Let's say I've created macros in 2007. How do I put them in a menu in
the so-called Quick Access Toolbar? I've created "Custom menu" in the QAT,
but don't see how to add anything to it.

2. In Word 97 in a friend's older computer there is a custom menu on the
menu bar with several macros on that menu The macros are in the Normal
template. I've been cracking my head trying to figure how to transfer this
menu with its macros to the QAT in Word 2007 on my friend's new computer.
Could
someone spell out for me the step by step procedure for doing this? Thanks.

As an example of the difficulties I'm running into, Bob Buckland said I
should save Normal.dot under another name and put it in Word 2007. But when
you save a template with a new name, or copy a template and rename the copy,
the project name changes (doesn't it?), in which case the buttons on the
menu will no longer point to the macros in that project, and so the buttons
will not run the macros.










Hi Larry,

The Ribbon collapses if you use Ctrl+F1. You can, using the links in the
previous method, to use RibbonX to customize the ribbon to
remove or replace entire chunks (groups) within the ribbon tabs and to add
new tabs.

Customizations of older Word version built in Word menus and toolbars
usually don't come over in Word 2007.

Custom toolbars and menus of your own can and by default work from the
'Add-in' tabs. You can create 'clones' of the older version
drop down menus or toolbars (hold ctrl key while working in the older
version to create a duplicate of the built in menus, but with
a slightly modified menu or toolbar name, for example File, as File97)

Word 2007 usually retains the button images from the prior edition, but the
button editing/pasting capability of prior versions is
not in the apps in 2007.

Rather than replacing Normal.dotm save a copy of your old Normal.dot under a
new file name and then open it in Word 2007.

The Custom toolbar and Custom menu choices are placeholders on the QAT.
They 'fill' with the contents of the Add-Ins tab when it's
populated, but revert to blank placeholders again if the other document
(Add-In tab content) is taken away.

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"Larry" wrote in message
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Bob,

I don't have 2007 in front of me now, but here's what I'm trying to figure
out:

In my Normal template in Word 97, I have my own custom menus, two of them
are on the regular Menu bar which also includes the usual menus. But also
the built-in menus are highly customized by me, with my own macros stuck in
those menus. For example, I have special macros of my own on the File menu,
the Tools menu, the Window menu, and so on.

The other custom menu (called Extra) is on its own custom toolbar called
Extra which I only display when I need it.

I also have a customized toolbar that I use in place of the Standard and
Formatting toolbars, so that I normally have only one toolbar displayed.

Now, getting back to Word 2007, let's say I replaced the Normal template in
Word 2007 with my own Normal template from Word 97. I click my custom
toolbar in Add-ins and that adds it to the so-called Quick Access toolbar.
Does that mean the custom toolbar is displayed permanently as a toolbar?
How does a toolbar display ON a toolbar? I'll have to check this out. And
how would the button images from Word 97 translate into the Word 2007
environment?

And what about my custom menus that are on the regular menu bar? Since a
menu does not exist by itself--it has to be part of the Menu bar or part of
a toolbar, how can a menu by by itself be loaded in Word 2007?

Suppose I wanted to keep access to all my existing menus, both my custom
menus and the regular menus to which I've added my own macros. How would I
do that? I suppose I'd have to create a new custom toolbar, and copy move
all the menus (regular and custom) from the regular Word 97 Menu bar to that
custom toolbar, and then add that toolbar to Word 2007. Is this possible?
And then I would have my own complete menu bar as a permanent part of Word
2007?



Larry
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Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

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