I'm having a problem saving a simple macro I created to my toolbar. Each time
I open a Word document, create the macro and drag and drop it to my toolbar,
it disappears when I reopen a new Word doc. Even when I save the document
with the supposed macro I created, the macro has disappeared from the
toolbar. Has this issue anything to do with the fact that I recently
installed Adobe v. 7?

Yes. Acrobat resets the menus when it loads.


"Frustrated macro creater" Frustrated macro
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I'm having a problem saving a simple macro I created to my toolbar. Each
time
I open a Word document, create the macro and drag and drop it to my
toolbar,
it disappears when I reopen a new Word doc. Even when I save the document
with the supposed macro I created, the macro has disappeared from the
toolbar. Has this issue anything to do with the fact that I recently
installed Adobe v. 7?

Thanks for replying. How do I reset Acrobat so that I can restore macros in
my toolbar? How do I correct this problem?


"Jezebel" wrote:

Yes. Acrobat resets the menus when it loads.


"Frustrated macro creater" Frustrated macro
wrote in message
...
I'm having a problem saving a simple macro I created to my toolbar. Each
time
I open a Word document, create the macro and drag and drop it to my
toolbar,
it disappears when I reopen a new Word doc. Even when I save the document
with the supposed macro I created, the macro has disappeared from the
toolbar. Has this issue anything to do with the fact that I recently
installed Adobe v. 7?

Not quite. Acrobat sets the Saved property of Normal.dot to True so that
changes are not saved when you exit Word. But you can force a save of
Normal.dot by pressing Shift while clicking File on the menu, then selecting
Save All.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Jezebel" wrote in message
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Yes. Acrobat resets the menus when it loads.


"Frustrated macro creater" Frustrated macro
wrote in message
...
I'm having a problem saving a simple macro I created to my toolbar. Each
time
I open a Word document, create the macro and drag and drop it to my
toolbar,
it disappears when I reopen a new Word doc. Even when I save the
document
with the supposed macro I created, the macro has disappeared from the
toolbar. Has this issue anything to do with the fact that I recently
installed Adobe v. 7?

Thank you. I followed your steps below and restored the macro to my toolbar


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Not quite. Acrobat sets the Saved property of Normal.dot to True so that
changes are not saved when you exit Word. But you can force a save of
Normal.dot by pressing Shift while clicking File on the menu, then selecting
Save All.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Jezebel" wrote in message
...
Yes. Acrobat resets the menus when it loads.


"Frustrated macro creater" Frustrated macro
wrote in message
...
I'm having a problem saving a simple macro I created to my toolbar. Each
time
I open a Word document, create the macro and drag and drop it to my
toolbar,
it disappears when I reopen a new Word doc. Even when I save the
document
with the supposed macro I created, the macro has disappeared from the
toolbar. Has this issue anything to do with the fact that I recently
installed Adobe v. 7?

There's a little more to it, although perhaps not relevant to changes saved
directly to normal.dot. If you have an add-in with built-in menu changes
that loads before Acrobat, PDFMaker clears those changes when it loads. (You
can watch it happening by slowing the load sequence down to nothing and
stepping through it.) Perhaps this has been fixed with Acrobat 7?




"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
Not quite. Acrobat sets the Saved property of Normal.dot to True so that
changes are not saved when you exit Word. But you can force a save of
Normal.dot by pressing Shift while clicking File on the menu, then
selecting
Save All.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

"Jezebel" wrote in message
...
Yes. Acrobat resets the menus when it loads.


"Frustrated macro creater" Frustrated macro
wrote in message
...
I'm having a problem saving a simple macro I created to my toolbar.
Each
time
I open a Word document, create the macro and drag and drop it to my
toolbar,
it disappears when I reopen a new Word doc. Even when I save the
document
with the supposed macro I created, the macro has disappeared from the
toolbar. Has this issue anything to do with the fact that I recently
installed Adobe v. 7?

Unfortunately not - Acrobat 7 makes things worse by using a COM add-in with
a flag set to show normal.dot as saved, so changes cannot be made to
normal.dot by the conventional methods - see
http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adob...at_toolbar.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




Jezebel wrote:
There's a little more to it, although perhaps not relevant to changes
saved directly to normal.dot. If you have an add-in with built-in
menu changes that loads before Acrobat, PDFMaker clears those changes
when it loads. (You can watch it happening by slowing the load
sequence down to nothing and stepping through it.) Perhaps this has
been fixed with Acrobat 7?




"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
Not quite. Acrobat sets the Saved property of Normal.dot to True so
that changes are not saved when you exit Word. But you can force a
save of Normal.dot by pressing Shift while clicking File on the
menu, then selecting
Save All.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Jezebel" wrote in message
...
Yes. Acrobat resets the menus when it loads.


"Frustrated macro creater" Frustrated macro
wrote in message
...
I'm having a problem saving a simple macro I created to my toolbar.
Each
time
I open a Word document, create the macro and drag and drop it to my
toolbar,
it disappears when I reopen a new Word doc. Even when I save the
document with the supposed macro I created, the macro has
disappeared from the toolbar. Has this issue anything to do with
the fact that I recently installed Adobe v. 7?