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Barbara White - 29 Aug 2003 15:42 GMT

Using Word 2000 on Windows 2000.

I am creating a template with customized toolbars and have two questions:

1. How can I get the toolbar to display with other toolbars (not as a
floating toolbar)? When I drag it to the toolbars menu and then do a
file/new on that template file, it sometimes appears in the toolbars
area and it sometimes floats.

2. I want to customize the toolbars to display only these items:
Standard, Formatting, My Customized Toolbar. However, each time I open
the template, I see the "Web" toolbar also. I have done a
tools/customize/toolbars and then saved the template to a new template
file, but the toolbars seem to revert to some preset default. How can I
fix this?

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Charles Kenyon - 29 Aug 2003 23:25 GMT

From FAQ:
11. How can I get rid of that ^$#*@& web toolbar?
<URL: http://addbalance.com/word/webtoolbar.htm>

Assuming your template is loaded as an Add-In, you can use an AutoExec macro
in your template to position your toolbars. Try opening the template and
recording such a macro and then edit what is recorded. Make sure that your
customization context is set to your template and that when the macro
finishes the saved status of your template is set to true.

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See <URL: http://addbalance.com/word/movetotemplate.htm> for step-by-step
instructions on moving / sharing / copying customizations including
AutoText, AutoCorrect, keyboard assignments, macros, etc.

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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
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See also the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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> Using Word 2000 on Windows 2000.
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> file, but the toolbars seem to revert to some preset default. How can I
> fix this?

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Graham Mayor - 30 Aug 2003 08:43 GMT

It should stay where you place it - if normal.dot or the template or
document that contains it is saved on exit.
Open normal.dot for editing. Place the toolbar where you want it. Type a
character in the text space then delete it, so that Word sees a change to
the file, then save normal.dot.

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> Using Word 2000 on Windows 2000.
>
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> file, but the toolbars seem to revert to some preset default. How can
> I fix this?

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