How to transfer a custom toolbar to another word install?

[kiln]

I have a bunch of vba routines linked to a custom commandbar and it's
buttons. I've moved the .dot file that the new docs are based on to a
new computer, and was a bit surprised to see that the custom commandbar
didn't make the trip (word 2000). In Access commandbars go with the mdb
file; are word command bars only in the registry or something? Or did I
miss something, and it is there somewhere?

 

[DA]

The bars are saved in the template. You'll probably find
though that your command bar was saved in "Normal.dot".

Remove your custom .dot template from startup and run
Word. If the bar is still there, then you most likely
saved it in Normal.dot

Hope that helps,
Dennis

 

[kiln]

Thanks. I later realized that the doc that I thought was missing the
toolbar and VBA had been created via a routine that (rightly) used a
plain jane template. The docs that were created by a different routine
that uses the special dot as the doc basis *do* show the toolbar as
expected. **Whew**

 

[kiln]

Hmm I still don't understand I guess.

On a machine that does not have the dot that contains the custom
toolbar, the toolbar is not available. I expected the dot file
attributes to be embedded in docs that were created based on the custom
dot that contains the toolbar. Does this mean that I have to distribute
the dot file to any user that needs access to the toolbar? Seems
incredibly strange if true, as everyone's normal.dot could be different,
and thus all sorts of formatting could shift depending on the machine a
doc is viewed on.