[martin]

I've created a Macro in Word 2007 and assigned a button to it. The macro
works fine until I close Word and reopen. After doing that, the button is
still visible but the macro behind it is no longer in the application. It's
not listed in the macro list either. Where did it go?

[Graham Mayor]

By default it would have been stored in the normal template. For some reason
that template has not been saved - probably through interaction with a
poorly written add-in. Had this not been Word 2007, I would have said the
Acrobat 7 add-in, but that is not compatible with 2007..

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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



Martin wrote:
I've created a Macro in Word 2007 and assigned a button to it. The
macro works fine until I close Word and reopen. After doing that,
the button is still visible but the macro behind it is no longer in
the application. It's not listed in the macro list either. Where
did it go?

[martin]

Then how do I get it to save? Should I do a Save As to the Normal.dot?

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

By default it would have been stored in the normal template. For some reason
that template has not been saved - probably through interaction with a
poorly written add-in. Had this not been Word 2007, I would have said the
Acrobat 7 add-in, but that is not compatible with 2007..

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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



Martin wrote:
I've created a Macro in Word 2007 and assigned a button to it. The
macro works fine until I close Word and reopen. After doing that,
the button is still visible but the macro behind it is no longer in
the application. It's not listed in the macro list either. Where
did it go?

[Graham Mayor]

The obvious answer to that is to identify the errant add-in and update or
remove it to allow Word to save the norma template as required.
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...sInstalled.htm

Word 2007 does not use normal.dot, but normal.dotm which only Word can
create. You can open this file in Word, make changes and save it, which
should do the trick. In ordser to save it it would need something adding
that Word sees as a change. Adding a character to the text space and
deleting it should suffice.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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



Martin wrote:
Then how do I get it to save? Should I do a Save As to the
Normal.dot?

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

By default it would have been stored in the normal template. For
some reason that template has not been saved - probably through
interaction with a poorly written add-in. Had this not been Word
2007, I would have said the Acrobat 7 add-in, but that is not
compatible with 2007..

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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



Martin wrote:
I've created a Macro in Word 2007 and assigned a button to it. The
macro works fine until I close Word and reopen. After doing that,
the button is still visible but the macro behind it is no longer in
the application. It's not listed in the macro list either. Where
did it go?