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Andrew Staley - 08 Nov 2007 08:59 GMT

I have a Word macro that I need to publish to 80+ PC's, without overiding
the Normal.dot file. Is there a way of doing this via Server 2003 that
dosn't require me to go around to each machine?

Currently using;
Windows XP Pro(SP2)
Server 2003 R2 (SP2)
Word 2003 (SP3).

Thanks, Andrew.

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Jay Freedman - 08 Nov 2007 14:54 GMT

> I have a Word macro that I need to publish to 80+ PC's, without
> overiding the Normal.dot file. Is there a way of doing this via
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> Thanks, Andrew.

To give others a macro without touching Normal.dot, you put the macro in
another template that gets stored in each user's Startup folder -- that
causes Word to load this "global template" every time it starts.

Typically, the distribution is done by writing or adding to a login script
on the server, which copies the template from a share on the server to each
user's Startup folder.

Some details are at
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/DistributeMacros.htm.

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