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MS Office Forum / Word / Menus and Toolbars / May 2008Custom ToolBar questions
I want to make a custom toolbar for a template. I want to copy an existing toolbar from a different template, rename it, and then edit it. I don't want the edits to affect the preexisting toolbar. How can I do that in Word XP? Lady Dungeness Crabby, but Great Legs! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > I want to make a custom toolbar for a template. I want to copy an existing toolbar from a different template, rename >it, and then edit it. I don't want the edits to affect the preexisting toolbar. How can I do that in Word XP? > >Lady Dungeness >Crabby, but Great Legs! >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If the original toolbar is a custom (not built-in but modified) toolbar: - Open the Tools > Templates & Add-Ins dialog and click the Organizer button in the lower left corner. - Click the Toolbars tab of the Organizer dialog. - Click the Close File button on one side and, when it becomes the Open File button, click it again. Navigate to the appropriate folder and select the template that contains the original toolbar. - Repeat the Close File / Open File on the other side of the Organizer and choose the template that will receive the copy. - Select the original toolbar and click the Copy button in the middle of the dialog. - Click the Close button in the bottom right corner to close the dialog. You'll be asked whether to save changes in the second template; say yes. - Now you can open the second template and change the toolbar as you like. It won't have any effect on the original toolbar. There is no such procedure for custom buttons that were added to built-in toolbars. Those buttons would have to be recreated in a second template, one by one. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Let me see if I understand: By using Organizer to copy a toolbar from Template A to Template B, ... then if I change the toolbar in Template B, the one in Template A will not bge affected? Is that right? If so, good. I would need only to put some kind of a marker on the toolbar to make it obvious which template I'm using. Like a useless command with a custom button -- yellow for language work, blue for legal, red for love letters, etc. To help me keep it straight which template is being used. Another idea would be to have a background color or image on the document, as long as it wouldn't affect printing. I'm not finding a way to make that stick in a template, however. Lady Dungeness Out of Danger until September ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ >> I want to make a custom toolbar for a template. I want to copy an existing toolbar from a different template, rename >>it, and then edit it. I don't want the edits to affect the preexisting toolbar. How can I do that in Word XP? [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] >toolbars. Those buttons would have to be recreated in a second template, one by >one. > Let me see if I understand: > > By using Organizer to copy a toolbar from Template A to Template B, > ... then if I change the toolbar in Template B, the one in Template A > will not bge affected? Is that right? Yes > If so, good. I would need only to put some kind of a marker on the > toolbar to make it obvious which template I'm using. Like a useless > command with a custom button -- yellow for language work, blue for > legal, red for love letters, etc. To help me keep it straight which > template is being used. I am not sure I see the point of this. If you must have a record of the template attached to the current document, then add the following lines to an autoopen macro in normal.dot Dim sName As String With ActiveDocument sName = "Template = " & .AttachedTemplate & " " & .FullName End With which will show the template and full path of the document in the Word title bar. http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm  Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Oops - missed a line. It should have read Dim sName As String With ActiveDocument sName = "Template = " & .AttachedTemplate & " " & .FullName End With ActiveWindow.Caption = sName Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> >> Let me see if I understand: >> [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm Thank you Graham. I've found in the past, when I try to make custom toolbars, that I might be working for a while in, say, a Greek document, and I'll delete some of the commands I don't need in order to add ones I do. Then when I go back and open up a legal document, I'm missing some of my commands. I seem to forget which template I'm working from. What I've done is put the Customize Toolbar icon on each toolbar. I've edited the icon for color-coding. Yellow for general documents, blue for legal documents, green for greek, pink for Japanese ... I'm sure I'll get the hang of this after a while and won't need the little reminders. Do you think I'm crazy? Lady Dungeness Out of Danger until September ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ >> Let me see if I understand: >> [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > >http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm
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