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merged document does not contain menu item from original document
Greetings,
Is it possible for a merged document to inherit the customised menus from the parent document or template? My 'master' document contains autotext entries which I select from a menu item which I have created, but when I do a mail merge to create a new document the menu is not carried over to the new document. |
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merged document does not contain menu item from original document
You cannot store autotext entries in a document, only in a template. For the
entries will be available to a document they must be in the template the document was created from (which must be present), in an add-in template or in the normal template. For a menu to be inherited it too must be in the template and not in the document. Mail merge by default bases new documents on the normal template. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org grf wrote: Greetings, Is it possible for a merged document to inherit the customised menus from the parent document or template? My 'master' document contains autotext entries which I select from a menu item which I have created, but when I do a mail merge to create a new document the menu is not carried over to the new document. |
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merged document does not contain menu item from original docum
Thanks for your reply,
From what you have said, I now understand that for a merged document to have access to an existing 'custom' menu, that menu must be present in normal.dot, as this is the template which mailmerge uses by default when creating a new document. Is this correct? Is there any way to tell mailmerge to use a different template when creating a new document? "Graham Mayor" wrote: You cannot store autotext entries in a document, only in a template. For the entries will be available to a document they must be in the template the document was created from (which must be present), in an add-in template or in the normal template. For a menu to be inherited it too must be in the template and not in the document. Mail merge by default bases new documents on the normal template. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org grf wrote: Greetings, Is it possible for a merged document to inherit the customised menus from the parent document or template? My 'master' document contains autotext entries which I select from a menu item which I have created, but when I do a mail merge to create a new document the menu is not carried over to the new document. |
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merged document does not contain menu item from original docum
Essentially you have the gist of it. You can attach the required template
after running the merge which should restore the macros and toolbars to your merged document. eg by macro With ActiveDocument .UpdateStylesOnOpen = True .AttachedTemplate = "D:\Word Templates\Template Name.dot" End With Change the path as required or from the Word dialogs -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org grf wrote: Thanks for your reply, From what you have said, I now understand that for a merged document to have access to an existing 'custom' menu, that menu must be present in normal.dot, as this is the template which mailmerge uses by default when creating a new document. Is this correct? Is there any way to tell mailmerge to use a different template when creating a new document? "Graham Mayor" wrote: You cannot store autotext entries in a document, only in a template. For the entries will be available to a document they must be in the template the document was created from (which must be present), in an add-in template or in the normal template. For a menu to be inherited it too must be in the template and not in the document. Mail merge by default bases new documents on the normal template. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org grf wrote: Greetings, Is it possible for a merged document to inherit the customised menus from the parent document or template? My 'master' document contains autotext entries which I select from a menu item which I have created, but when I do a mail merge to create a new document the menu is not carried over to the new document. |
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merged document does not contain menu item from original docum
Thanks very much Graham, you've been very helpful.
"Graham Mayor" wrote: Essentially you have the gist of it. You can attach the required template after running the merge which should restore the macros and toolbars to your merged document. eg by macro With ActiveDocument .UpdateStylesOnOpen = True .AttachedTemplate = "D:\Word Templates\Template Name.dot" End With Change the path as required or from the Word dialogs -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org grf wrote: Thanks for your reply, From what you have said, I now understand that for a merged document to have access to an existing 'custom' menu, that menu must be present in normal.dot, as this is the template which mailmerge uses by default when creating a new document. Is this correct? Is there any way to tell mailmerge to use a different template when creating a new document? "Graham Mayor" wrote: You cannot store autotext entries in a document, only in a template. For the entries will be available to a document they must be in the template the document was created from (which must be present), in an add-in template or in the normal template. For a menu to be inherited it too must be in the template and not in the document. Mail merge by default bases new documents on the normal template. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org grf wrote: Greetings, Is it possible for a merged document to inherit the customised menus from the parent document or template? My 'master' document contains autotext entries which I select from a menu item which I have created, but when I do a mail merge to create a new document the menu is not carried over to the new document. |
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