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MS Office Forum / Word / Menus and Toolbars / September 2005Creating a 'tear-off' drop down menu item
Hi all, I'm using Word 2000 and I'm wondering if it's possible to customize a toolbar to make a 'tear-off' drop down menu that works in a similar way the Font Colour and Border buttons. It would be very useful to be able to do this with our dropdown that contains frequently used autotexts. Cheers, Caroline. You can make a floating AutoText toolbar, if that's what you're asking. In fact, there is an AutoText toolbar built into Word, and I think it floats by default.  SignatureSuzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > Hi all, > I'm using Word 2000 and I'm wondering if it's possible to customize a [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Cheers, > Caroline. Hi Suzanne, Actually, this is a customized toolbar containing a large amount of autotexts in seperate menus. The problem with it is, if you click the dropdown arrow to insert an autotext, then the dropdown disappears and if you want to add another autotext you have to click the dropdown again. This can be tedious especially with more than one level of menus. Some of the default Word menus (like the ones I mentioned in my first post, and also some of the items on the Drawing toolbar) have a grey bar at the top of the dropdown. If you click and drag this, it makes the menu into a floating toolbar. This would be incredible handy for autotexts, expecially when we are adding many dictionary definitions/clauses to a document. Does this make any sense? Can it be done? Cheers, Caroline. > You can make a floating AutoText toolbar, if that's what you're asking. In > fact, there is an AutoText toolbar built into Word, and I think it floats by [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Cheers, > > Caroline. If you name the autotexts logically you could type the autotext name and press F3 to insert it without having to mess with menus. Or you could use autocorrect instead, which doesn't use menus eg #c1 could enter clause 1 automatically. Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> > Hi Suzanne, > [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] >>> Cheers, >>> Caroline. Thanks Graham Yes, we also do this (and it's good to see someone else uses autocorrect to insert formatted text the way I've been doing :-) I was just hoping for a way that would prevent having to remember all those autotexts. Point and click is really much easier as the clauses don't have a particular number associated with them until you insert them in a document. Oh well, if we have to put up with extra clicks, that's the way it goes. Cheers, Caroline. > If you name the autotexts logically you could type the autotext name and > press F3 to insert it without having to mess with menus. Or you could use [quoted text clipped - 44 lines] > >>> Cheers, > >>> Caroline. You may be interested in a product called GhostTyper - http://www.ghosttyper.com/ which takes the concept of autotext a stage further and works in all applications. I use it to store URLs for posting in these newsgroups. It is very powerful and works on a right button click from a system try icon (or directly as autocorrect). You can have multiple data files and use the same shortcut more than once. I love it :) Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> > Thanks Graham > Yes, we also do this (and it's good to see someone else uses [quoted text clipped - 66 lines] >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> Caroline. Thanks Graham, I'll have to have a close look at this. Cheers, Caroline. > You may be interested in a product called GhostTyper - > http://www.ghosttyper.com/ which takes the concept of autotext a stage [quoted text clipped - 73 lines] > >>>>> Cheers, > >>>>> Caroline. |
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