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Disappearing buttons, Word2007
Hi everyone. This is my first time here, so I hope I'm asking this
right. We are in a panic. We have a nice "add in file" someone made for us long ago that we've used for years. It used to put 6 special buttons on the toobar, and each button did a pretty big set of important steps, fast. He said they were macros. We used them on about 20 or 30 documents, twice a day. They were a great time saver, becauuse before we got these buttons it used to take us all day to do this. They told us our buttons would still work in Word2007, so we paid for the up grade last week. But we dont see them anywhre now. Where are they? We need to keep using them. I'm having to drive files home twice a day to my own computer, just to run the procedures on time. Help?????? Gina |
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That's not possible to answer because we don't know how the developers added
the buttons. They have created the macros, saved them to a template file which is loaded from the Word Start-up. The command buttons should have been coded to a new Ribbon Tab or they may have taken an easy way and added them to the QAT. You need to ask them for support. They wrote it and sold it, so they should support it. -- Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP wrote in message oups.com... Hi everyone. This is my first time here, so I hope I'm asking this right. We are in a panic. We have a nice "add in file" someone made for us long ago that we've used for years. It used to put 6 special buttons on the toobar, and each button did a pretty big set of important steps, fast. He said they were macros. We used them on about 20 or 30 documents, twice a day. They were a great time saver, becauuse before we got these buttons it used to take us all day to do this. They told us our buttons would still work in Word2007, so we paid for the up grade last week. But we dont see them anywhre now. Where are they? We need to keep using them. I'm having to drive files home twice a day to my own computer, just to run the procedures on time. Help?????? Gina |
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What was their "add-in" file? A template? If so then is the template in your
Office\Startup folder or Word Startup folder? Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ wrote in message oups.com... Hi everyone. This is my first time here, so I hope I'm asking this right. We are in a panic. We have a nice "add in file" someone made for us long ago that we've used for years. It used to put 6 special buttons on the toobar, and each button did a pretty big set of important steps, fast. He said they were macros. We used them on about 20 or 30 documents, twice a day. They were a great time saver, becauuse before we got these buttons it used to take us all day to do this. They told us our buttons would still work in Word2007, so we paid for the up grade last week. But we dont see them anywhre now. Where are they? We need to keep using them. I'm having to drive files home twice a day to my own computer, just to run the procedures on time. Help?????? Gina |
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On Sep 12, 8:12 am, "Terry Farrell" wrote:
That's not possible to answer because we don't know how the developers added the buttons. They have created the macros, saved them to a template file which is loaded from the Word Start-up. The command buttons should have been coded to a new Ribbon Tab or they may have taken an easy way and added them to the QAT. You need to ask them for support. They wrote it and sold it, so they should support it. -- Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP wrote in message oups.com... Hi everyone. This is my first time here, so I hope I'm asking this right. We are in a panic. We have a nice "add in file" someone made for us long ago that we've used for years. It used to put 6 special buttons on the toobar, and each button did a pretty big set of important steps, fast. He said they were macros. We used them on about 20 or 30 documents, twice a day. They were a great time saver, becauuse before we got these buttons it used to take us all day to do this. They told us our buttons would still work in Word2007, so we paid for the up grade last week. But we dont see them anywhre now. Where are they? We need to keep using them. I'm having to drive files home twice a day to my own computer, just to run the procedures on time. Help?????? Gina- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Hello, I'm sorry this took so long. I couldn't figureout how to get back to where I sent the msesage. It was a present, we didn't pay anything for it, and we can't call the man who gave it to us, he moved away several years ago and we understand he was killed in a car accident at some point. ;( But once he did explain to me, or try to explain, how it worked. It "builds" buttons on the toolbar, we saw them just appear each time we started up Word. He showed me the "code" oncebut of course i just glazed over. All I remember is it had to do with "command bars." but it wasn't a new "bar" just some buttons on the old one. he did talk about a "startup" but I thought that was just slang, is it a foldere on the computer?. The name of the file ends in dot instead of doc, he said that was important. Anyway It worked fine in Word2000 and again in Word2003, so this has us upset that we can't see the buttons anymore. sorry if i sound dense........ i guess i am. thanks, Gina |
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On Sep 12, 10:29 pm, "Graham Mayor" wrote:
http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htmshould help explain how old toolbars are used and made available. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web sitewww.gmayor.com Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org wrote: Hi everyone. This is my first time here, so I hope I'm asking this right. We are in a panic. We have a nice "add in file" someone made for us long ago that we've used for years. It used to put 6 special buttons on the toobar, and each button did a pretty big set of important steps, fast. He said they were macros. We used them on about 20 or 30 documents, twice a day. They were a great time saver, becauuse before we got these buttons it used to take us all day to do this. They told us our buttons would still work in Word2007, so we paid for the up grade last week. But we dont see them anywhre now. Where are they? We need to keep using them. I'm having to drive files home twice a day to my own computer, just to run the procedures on time. Help?????? Gina- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - oH, wow. This looks like it could help. I'll have to sit down and read it through, but it sounds like other peole have had the same problem. thank you sir (in advance I guess) Gina. |
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Morever... rather than relying on the old toolbar buttons, you also have the
option of putting buttons for those macros onto the Quick Access Toolbar. That way, they would be available all the time, not just when the Add-ins tab is visible. Word 2007 doesn't provide a built-in way to edit buttons, but there's a pretty decent selection of built-in icons you can use. To get you started... right-click the Quick Access Toolbar, and choose Customize QAT. Set Choose commands from: to Macros. Select the macro(s) you want in the left pane, then click Add to put them onto the QAT. Use the Modify button to choose the symbol to use for the button. You can use Display Name to change the text you see when the mouse pointer hovers over the tool button in the QAT. Click OK when done. Use the Move Up/Move Down buttons to put them where you want, as desired. Then click OK. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com wrote in message ups.com... On Sep 12, 10:29 pm, "Graham Mayor" wrote: http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htmshould help explain how old toolbars are used and made available. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web sitewww.gmayor.com Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org wrote: Hi everyone. This is my first time here, so I hope I'm asking this right. We are in a panic. We have a nice "add in file" someone made for us long ago that we've used for years. It used to put 6 special buttons on the toobar, and each button did a pretty big set of important steps, fast. He said they were macros. We used them on about 20 or 30 documents, twice a day. They were a great time saver, becauuse before we got these buttons it used to take us all day to do this. They told us our buttons would still work in Word2007, so we paid for the up grade last week. But we dont see them anywhre now. Where are they? We need to keep using them. I'm having to drive files home twice a day to my own computer, just to run the procedures on time. Help?????? Gina- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - oH, wow. This looks like it could help. I'll have to sit down and read it through, but it sounds like other peole have had the same problem. thank you sir (in advance I guess) Gina. |
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Disappearing buttons, Word2007
Of course you can do that - but the Add-ins toolbar does give you more real
estate for buttons and you can use the original button images. Neither is really an ideal solution. Next step is to consider http://ribboncustomizer.com/ but that would need the add-in application re-developing -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Herb Tyson [MVP] wrote: Morever... rather than relying on the old toolbar buttons, you also have the option of putting buttons for those macros onto the Quick Access Toolbar. That way, they would be available all the time, not just when the Add-ins tab is visible. Word 2007 doesn't provide a built-in way to edit buttons, but there's a pretty decent selection of built-in icons you can use. To get you started... right-click the Quick Access Toolbar, and choose Customize QAT. Set Choose commands from: to Macros. Select the macro(s) you want in the left pane, then click Add to put them onto the QAT. Use the Modify button to choose the symbol to use for the button. You can use Display Name to change the text you see when the mouse pointer hovers over the tool button in the QAT. Click OK when done. Use the Move Up/Move Down buttons to put them where you want, as desired. Then click OK. wrote in message ups.com... On Sep 12, 10:29 pm, "Graham Mayor" wrote: http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htmshould help explain how old toolbars are used and made available. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web sitewww.gmayor.com Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org wrote: Hi everyone. This is my first time here, so I hope I'm asking this right. We are in a panic. We have a nice "add in file" someone made for us long ago that we've used for years. It used to put 6 special buttons on the toobar, and each button did a pretty big set of important steps, fast. He said they were macros. We used them on about 20 or 30 documents, twice a day. They were a great time saver, becauuse before we got these buttons it used to take us all day to do this. They told us our buttons would still work in Word2007, so we paid for the up grade last week. But we dont see them anywhre now. Where are they? We need to keep using them. I'm having to drive files home twice a day to my own computer, just to run the procedures on time. Help?????? Gina- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - oH, wow. This looks like it could help. I'll have to sit down and read it through, but it sounds like other peole have had the same problem. thank you sir (in advance I guess) Gina. |
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When it was given to you what were the instructions for use? IOW, were you
told it needed to be in a specific folder? Did it have an installation program? If you can help us with these questions then we should be able to help you get it working again. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ wrote in message oups.com... Hello, I'm sorry this took so long. I couldn't figureout how to get back to where I sent the msesage. It was a present, we didn't pay anything for it, and we can't call the man who gave it to us, he moved away several years ago and we understand he was killed in a car accident at some point. ;( But once he did explain to me, or try to explain, how it worked. It "builds" buttons on the toolbar, we saw them just appear each time we started up Word. He showed me the "code" oncebut of course i just glazed over. All I remember is it had to do with "command bars." but it wasn't a new "bar" just some buttons on the old one. he did talk about a "startup" but I thought that was just slang, is it a foldere on the computer?. The name of the file ends in dot instead of doc, he said that was important. Anyway It worked fine in Word2000 and again in Word2003, so this has us upset that we can't see the buttons anymore. sorry if i sound dense........ i guess i am. |
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I suspect it was an add-in that needs to be stored in Word's Startup folder.
You can find the path for that in whatever the current equivalent is of the File Locations tab of Tools | Options in earlier versions (start with Office Button | Word Options, then probably Advanced). -- 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. "Beth Melton" wrote in message ... When it was given to you what were the instructions for use? IOW, were you told it needed to be in a specific folder? Did it have an installation program? If you can help us with these questions then we should be able to help you get it working again. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ wrote in message oups.com... Hello, I'm sorry this took so long. I couldn't figureout how to get back to where I sent the msesage. It was a present, we didn't pay anything for it, and we can't call the man who gave it to us, he moved away several years ago and we understand he was killed in a car accident at some point. ;( But once he did explain to me, or try to explain, how it worked. It "builds" buttons on the toolbar, we saw them just appear each time we started up Word. He showed me the "code" oncebut of course i just glazed over. All I remember is it had to do with "command bars." but it wasn't a new "bar" just some buttons on the old one. he did talk about a "startup" but I thought that was just slang, is it a foldere on the computer?. The name of the file ends in dot instead of doc, he said that was important. Anyway It worked fine in Word2000 and again in Word2003, so this has us upset that we can't see the buttons anymore. sorry if i sound dense........ i guess i am. |
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