Importing Macros from Word 2003 to Word 2007

[Cliftyman]

We have a administrative person who has quite a few custom macros. I
installed Office 2007 SBE on her machine. The installation moved the old
normal.dot file to the user\application data\microsoft\templates folder on
her machine and renamed it to office11.dot.

This was nice and it gave me access to those macros (which work fine), but I
want them to be part of the normal.dotm template, or at least load up
everytime Word starts. Right now if I don't go to templates and add-ins and
checkmark "normal11.dot" the macros won't work and they give me a security
error (this is with enable all macros checked, btw). If I checkmark
normall11.dot under addins they work fine. But as I said I need them to be
available every time word is started. What is the best practice for doing
this? Do I need to just save normal11.dot as a dotm and move it to the
startup folder or something?

How do all the different folders work in Word and is there a white paper on
best practices for working with templates, add-ins and macros out there?

 

[Susan Ramlet]

Hi, Cliftyman,

With credit to Patrick Schmid:

"In terms of upgrading your macros. You should find the file normal.dotm
and delete it. Then make sure that your old normal.dot is in the
directory where you found normal.dotm and open Word again. That should
upgrade your macros. Normal.dotm is the successor of normal.dot for Word
2007. You prob. will have to look at each of your macros individually to
check keyboard shortcuts in 2007. In the Office button menu, click Word
options, Personalize tab, and check the box next to the Developer tab
option. Then you have the Developer tab in your ribbon where you can get
to your macros easily. Keyboard shortcuts for Word are controlled via
Word Options, Customization, Keyboard shortcuts. "

If this doesn't meet your needs, I'd suggest that you post this to one of
the Word groups (if you haven't already). There are some really good macro
gurus who hang out there, rather than in the setup group.

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Susan Ramlet
MVP - Office

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