Hi Marie,

Honestly, to do what you want for your managers for 5% of the time is really
not worth it. Lots of code to write and maintain (new documents, name
changes, folder changes...), toolbar and menus to maintain, also, the
managers can easily screw things up...

Excel and PowerPoint are very easy to configure so that the documents they
need are easily accessible form File > New. Those programs are very easy to
start from the Start button, the Quicklaunch bar or the Office manager.

Trust me, it not worth going through the hassle of writing, implementing and
maintaining code that will be used just to generate files from templates in
other applications, for a 5% chance that it will be needed. The only way I
would see it as a must and worth the effort for a 5% situation like yours is
if I wanted to transfer data from the currently opened document in Word to
another document in Excel or PowerPoint.

As a final thought, let's say that a manager has just closed Word, thinking,
"I'm done!", then she remembers she has a little thing to adjust in an Excel
worksheet... She would have to start Word to get to Excel? Starting 2
applications to actually use only one is not very efficient and it is
slower.

Hi Jean-Guy,

Thanks for your reply. Just to make it cleaner. Our
account managers do 95% of their work in Word. Most of
them are not very computer literate, so to make it easy
for them, I have put everything they need on a dropdown
menu. Whatever report or request they need to make is all
under that one menu item. They don't need to know anything
about folders, etc. To make the most of automation, I
would really like to have them click on a menu item and
pronto they are in any document they might need. Hope that
helps with understanding what I want to do.

Marie

presentations from

templates in an

it on the desktop or

template to create the

make references to

that, I thought it

dans le message de

Word

of

form "open"

the

Presently, I

a

made