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Control Buttons in a Template
I have a form called Master.doc. that has been used for months. The form
has several control buttons for printing and was saved as a Template for others to use and access. I recently made some minor changes to the Master form. When I again saved the form as a Template, all functions of the control buttons no longer work when the Template is opened. No matter how or where I try to save this form as a Template, all control button functions are lost. All functions of the Master.doc work fine. Any ideas? |
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I may not understand your description correctly.
You say: When I again saved the form as a Template and, at the same time, you refer to the Master.doc and when the Template is opened. When you edited the form, what did you actually do? Did you create a new document (.doc) based on a template (.dot)? In that case, did you then afterwards save the .doc as a .dot file? If that is the case, your macros are found in your original template (the original .dot file) and not in the new template (the .dot file created by saving a .doc file as a .dot file). As long as the new .doc file is still attached to the template (.dot), it has access to the macros in that template, but when you save the .doc file as a .dot file, the connection to the original template is gone. However, you can copy the macros from the old template to the new template (e.g. via the Tools Templates and Add-ins Organizer). -- Regards Lene Fredborg DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "critter" wrote: I have a form called Master.doc. that has been used for months. The form has several control buttons for printing and was saved as a Template for others to use and access. I recently made some minor changes to the Master form. When I again saved the form as a Template, all functions of the control buttons no longer work when the Template is opened. No matter how or where I try to save this form as a Template, all control button functions are lost. All functions of the Master.doc work fine. Any ideas? |
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I created the Template based on the Master.doc. I edited Master.doc and
Saved As a Template. I did manage to work around this by modifying the old Template: FileOpen, and searched for the template in Docs & Settings...Application Data/Microsoft/Templates. Then did a save as. I still don't quite understand why I cannot make a totally new Template from an existing document and have all the functions work properly. "Lene Fredborg" wrote: I may not understand your description correctly. You say: When I again saved the form as a Template and, at the same time, you refer to the Master.doc and when the Template is opened. When you edited the form, what did you actually do? Did you create a new document (.doc) based on a template (.dot)? In that case, did you then afterwards save the .doc as a .dot file? If that is the case, your macros are found in your original template (the original .dot file) and not in the new template (the .dot file created by saving a .doc file as a .dot file). As long as the new .doc file is still attached to the template (.dot), it has access to the macros in that template, but when you save the .doc file as a .dot file, the connection to the original template is gone. However, you can copy the macros from the old template to the new template (e.g. via the Tools Templates and Add-ins Organizer). -- Regards Lene Fredborg DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "critter" wrote: I have a form called Master.doc. that has been used for months. The form has several control buttons for printing and was saved as a Template for others to use and access. I recently made some minor changes to the Master form. When I again saved the form as a Template, all functions of the control buttons no longer work when the Template is opened. No matter how or where I try to save this form as a Template, all control button functions are lost. All functions of the Master.doc work fine. Any ideas? |
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You may find the following article helpful:
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/temp...ons/index.html -- Regards Lene Fredborg DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "critter" wrote: I created the Template based on the Master.doc. I edited Master.doc and Saved As a Template. I did manage to work around this by modifying the old Template: FileOpen, and searched for the template in Docs & Settings...Application Data/Microsoft/Templates. Then did a save as. I still don't quite understand why I cannot make a totally new Template from an existing document and have all the functions work properly. "Lene Fredborg" wrote: I may not understand your description correctly. You say: When I again saved the form as a Template and, at the same time, you refer to the Master.doc and when the Template is opened. When you edited the form, what did you actually do? Did you create a new document (.doc) based on a template (.dot)? In that case, did you then afterwards save the .doc as a .dot file? If that is the case, your macros are found in your original template (the original .dot file) and not in the new template (the .dot file created by saving a .doc file as a .dot file). As long as the new .doc file is still attached to the template (.dot), it has access to the macros in that template, but when you save the .doc file as a .dot file, the connection to the original template is gone. However, you can copy the macros from the old template to the new template (e.g. via the Tools Templates and Add-ins Organizer). -- Regards Lene Fredborg DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "critter" wrote: I have a form called Master.doc. that has been used for months. The form has several control buttons for printing and was saved as a Template for others to use and access. I recently made some minor changes to the Master form. When I again saved the form as a Template, all functions of the control buttons no longer work when the Template is opened. No matter how or where I try to save this form as a Template, all control button functions are lost. All functions of the Master.doc work fine. Any ideas? |
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Another useful article is
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...latesStore.htm. The important thing to note is that Word behaves different wrt macros, AutoText and the like depending on whether you create a template to begin with (choosing Template in the New dialog) or create a document and save it as a template. -- 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. "Lene Fredborg" wrote in message ... You may find the following article helpful: http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/temp...ons/index.html -- Regards Lene Fredborg DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "critter" wrote: I created the Template based on the Master.doc. I edited Master.doc and Saved As a Template. I did manage to work around this by modifying the old Template: FileOpen, and searched for the template in Docs & Settings...Application Data/Microsoft/Templates. Then did a save as. I still don't quite understand why I cannot make a totally new Template from an existing document and have all the functions work properly. "Lene Fredborg" wrote: I may not understand your description correctly. You say: When I again saved the form as a Template and, at the same time, you refer to the Master.doc and when the Template is opened. When you edited the form, what did you actually do? Did you create a new document (.doc) based on a template (.dot)? In that case, did you then afterwards save the .doc as a .dot file? If that is the case, your macros are found in your original template (the original .dot file) and not in the new template (the .dot file created by saving a .doc file as a .dot file). As long as the new .doc file is still attached to the template (.dot), it has access to the macros in that template, but when you save the .doc file as a .dot file, the connection to the original template is gone. However, you can copy the macros from the old template to the new template (e.g. via the Tools Templates and Add-ins Organizer). -- Regards Lene Fredborg DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "critter" wrote: I have a form called Master.doc. that has been used for months. The form has several control buttons for printing and was saved as a Template for others to use and access. I recently made some minor changes to the Master form. When I again saved the form as a Template, all functions of the control buttons no longer work when the Template is opened. No matter how or where I try to save this form as a Template, all control button functions are lost. All functions of the Master.doc work fine. Any ideas? |
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