New Menu In Template (Word2000)

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Ole Weigelt - 17 Dec 2004 22:23 GMT

Hello Everybody,

I have the following problem:

- I have created a new template BK.DOT
- The template has a macro that should be started from a menu entry
- I have added the menu and an entry. Within the template, the macro works
fine.

- When I create new documents from that template, it takes a few seconds to
open the new document. When the document is open, the menu I added to the
template, has disappeared.

Can anybody tell me what I have done wrong?

Thanks for your help

Ole

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Word Heretic - 17 Dec 2004 22:36 GMT

G'day "Ole Weigelt" <o.weigelt@officeworks.de>,

When you added the menu, were changes being saved to that template? If
they were, open that template explicitly and turn the menu on using
tools > customize, set the context to the correct template and view
the toolbar. Then 'dirty' the template (space, backspace) and save it.

If you didn't save it to the right template or aren't sure, use Tools

> Organizer to locate / copy it. It may be in Normal or another

template.

Steve Hudson - Word Heretic

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Ole Weigelt reckoned:

>Hello Everybody,
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Ole Weigelt - 17 Dec 2004 22:51 GMT

Thanks for the immediate help!!

I have looked for the macros and found out that the macros aren't accessable
from the new document.

I have checked the template and I am sure that the macros and menus are
stored in that template and that it has been saved. But when I open a new
document and go to extras|macros, no macros are displayed for my template.

What did I miss?

Thanks again

> G'day "Ole Weigelt" <o.weigelt@officeworks.de>,
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Charles Kenyon - 17 Dec 2004 23:13 GMT

Do you have your macro security set to "high?"

In macro security, try checking the option to trust templates in the
templates folder and in the startup folder.

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Jezebel - 18 Dec 2004 00:35 GMT

> I have looked for the macros and found out that the macros aren't accessable
> from the new document.
>
> I have checked the template and I am sure that the macros and menus are
> stored in that template and that it has been saved.

These statements are inconsistent. Open or create a document from the
template. Press Alt-F11. You'll see both the document and its template
listed in the project explorer on the left. Expand the entry for the
template: are your macros in a module attached to the template? If no, then
they are not, in fact, stored in the template.

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Ole Weigelt - 18 Dec 2004 11:56 GMT

Thanks Charles and Jezebel!

Charles, I have checked taht and I had set it to 'low'

> > I have looked for the macros and found out that the macros aren't
> accessable
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> These statements are inconsistent.

That was my feeling, too. So I looked into my folders more deeply and found
out that I had a .DOT having the same name in a std template folder. Even
though I double-clicked the new one, Word must have mixed the two templates.
I renamed one of them and everything worked fine.

Thanks for your suggestions, they took me on the right path!!!

cu

Ole

>Open or create a document from the
> template. Press Alt-F11. You'll see both the document and its template
> listed in the project explorer on the left. Expand the entry for the
> template: are your macros in a module attached to the template? If no, then
> they are not, in fact, stored in the template.

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