Customized sub-menus do not "stick"

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TFTAJLLYMXZP@spammotel.com - 01 Nov 2005 00:37 GMT

Here's a strange one.

I have a custom toolbar stored in a global template that's loaded at
startup that I'll call Toolbar A. Two of the buttons on Toolbar A
themselves open custom toolbars which I'll call Toolbar B and Toolbar
C. Any changes to Toolbar B or C are therefore changes to Toolbar A.

After making some modifications to Toolbars B and C I've noticed a very
strange thing: the updated versions of Toolbars B and C will appear if
the global template is loaded normally at startup, but if I open the
global template using File -> Open the older versions of Toolbars B and
C appear; the new version of Toolbar A appears in either case.

Can someone tell me where these older versions might be lurking so I
can remove them once and for all?

I run Word 2000 (SP 3) on a W2K SP4 system.

Thanks,

Terry

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Charles Kenyon - 01 Nov 2005 07:03 GMT

They might be in normal.dot or any other loaded global template. You could
look for them using the Organizer and closing and opening various templates.

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TFTAJLLYMXZP@spammotel.com - 03 Nov 2005 19:10 GMT

Sorry for the tardy response.

I had checked for duplicate command bars in all my global templates
prior to posting, but neglected to include that info. Again, my
apologies.

Terry

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Tony Jollans - 01 Nov 2005 10:23 GMT

I'm not entirely sure I follow all of what you say, but it rather sounds
like you have document_open (or autoopen) code in your global template which
applies the original versions of Toolbars B and C - thus overwriting the
saved changes when it is opened as a document.

As you haven't said anything about changes to Toolbar A (changes to toolbars
B and C are not, themselves, changes to Toolbar A) I don't know what you
mean about old and new versions of it.

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Tony

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TFTAJLLYMXZP@spammotel.com - 03 Nov 2005 19:35 GMT

I would have thought so too, but there is definitely no automatic code
in the ThisDocument area of the global template project.

My original post was pretty sketchy, and should not have referred to
Toolbar B and Toolbar C. These are actually custom menus that drop
down from the custom toolbar I referred to as Toolbar A.

When Word first opens Toolbar A displays a single button. When this
button is clicked, the global template code displays the remainder of
the buttons, including the two custom menus, and shows a userform.
Somewhere along the way, then, Word has stored two versions of each of
these custom menus.

Any further suggestions on where to locate these menu definitions would
be appreciated.

Thanks,
Terry

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