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Saving Word Menu Customizations to a User-Defined Template

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Larry E. Lutz - 14 Mar 2005 16:29 GMT
In Word 2000, is there any way to save a menu customization to a
user-defined template? Here, I'm talking about the menu bar that includes
File, Edit, View, Insert, ans so forth. I know you can save user-created
toolbars to a template, but I can't seem to find a way to do the same thing
with menu customizations.

Is there a way to make a user-defined toolbar, saved to a template other
than Normal.dot, always appear docked in a specific place. (This is actually
my fall-back position if the the answer to my first question is "No.") When
I create a new toolbar in a template, dock it where I want it, and save the
template, then create a new document from the template, the toolbar always
appears floating, rather than docked where I put it. Since I have some users
who are less than computer literate, the appearance of the toolbar floating
on top of the text is cumbersome and, to me, highly annoying.

Larry
Charles Kenyon - 14 Mar 2005 18:53 GMT
Responding to your first question, yes, you can save menu customizations in
a different template. My preference is to build the customizations in a
custom toolbar and then copy them to the built-in toolbar, keeping the
customization context the template.

I've added things to the menu bar itself in a separate template as well as
added and subtracted items from built-in menus and toolbars, all within the
context of the separate template. That way, when the template is loaded, my
customizations are present; when it is not, they are not.

As to your second question, you can specify the location for toolbars but
other Add-Ins may bump you around. It is easiest if you disable the feature
to show most frequently uesd items on the menus.
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