Word 2002 Global Template

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Rudy Madsen

We have a global template in the startup folder for Word.
The template contains a menu item with several submenu
items, each item starts a new document based on a
template. All these templates are in a shared folder on
the server.
My problem is that the menu item does not show as it is
supposed to do when I start a new document.

Any proposal for a solution?
 
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Graham Mayor

Is this somehow better than using the Workgroup folder(s)? It sounds like
you are trying to re-invent the wheel here. See
http://www.gmayor.com/Template_Locations.htm
Menus can be inhibited by the actions of add-ins when used like this. In
particular Adobe Acrobat's add-in can play havoc with menu placements.

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Rudy

No, Graham, - you se, I want the menu items to constant in top of screen, because you shall always be able to use the items. Therefore the global template in the startup folder. If I save the template in the workgroup folder, it won't show - or will it?

/Rudy

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Is this somehow better than using the Workgroup folder(s)? It sounds like
you are trying to re-invent the wheel here. See
http://www.gmayor.com/Template_Locations.htm
Menus can be inhibited by the actions of add-ins when used like this. In
particular Adobe Acrobat's add-in can play havoc with menu placements.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP
E-mail [email protected]
Web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word
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Word Heretic

G'day "Rudy" <[email protected]>,

No it wont. Workgroup folders ONLY show up in File > New. My Word VBA
Spellbook goes into considerable detail on setting up and using global
templates.

Steve Hudson
Word Heretic Sydney Australia
Tricky stuff with Word or words

Email: WordHeretic at tpg.com.au


Rudy was spinning this yarn:
 
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Rudy Madsen

I'm so sorry! You misunderstand me.

I have a new menu item in a template. This item contains several sub-menu items. I store these items in the template. The template I save in my Startup folder in .../Office/Word/Start - , which make it to a global template. Then I expect to see the menu items in any new document, because my Word-help tells me, that the Normal.dot inherit any objects or element from all global templates. My problem is, that it dosn't work ;-)

Why?
 
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Peter Hewett

Hi

You state in your message ".../Office/Word/Start" but I'm assuming you
actually mean ".../Office/Word/Startup". Make sure that the template actually
has a file type of ".dot". Finally check that the Global template is being
loaded when Word starts. Check the Tools/Templates and Add-ins dialog now see
if your template is listed and checked in the "Global Templates and Add-ins"
listbox.

You can also load an Add-in from a location other than
".../Office/Word/Startup", this is just a default location. You can specify
you own location using Tools/Options/File Locations/Statup and then click on
the Modify button and browse to the required folder.

Cheers - Peter
 
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Charles Kenyon

What Graham is suggesting is that your users use File => New instead of your
custom menu.

What you are constructing is an Add-In. You are constructing your menus the
way I do in my Add-Ins. Sometimes, Add-Ins can interfere with each other on
things like this.

Are you sure that your modifications are stored in your Add-In and not in
your normal.dot?

You could create a custom toolbar and put your menus on that. You could put
a procedure to make your toolbar visible in the a pseudoAutoNew procedure of
the MyDocument object of your template. A custom toolbar is desirable even
if you are adding the menus to built-in menus since you can't copy
modifications to built-in menus but can copy custom toolbars.

See <URL: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/PseudoAutoMacros.htm>.

Another, non-vba, workaround is to create a folder in your user's Start menu
that has shortcuts to your templates. Use that instead of modifying the Word
menus. Have the user login scripts check for updates which can be copied to
the Start menu.
Hope this helps,
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Charles Kenyon

See also the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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Rudy said:
No, Graham, - you se, I want the menu items to constant in top of screen,
Click to expand...
because you shall always be able to use the items. Therefore the global
template in the startup folder. If I save the template in the workgroup
folder, it won't show - or will it?
 
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