Is the Open Document a Template

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Michael Tissington - 16 Feb 2007 19:39 GMT

I need to display a custom ribbon only if the user is creating a template.

How do I know if the Active Document is a template (need to know for Word
2003 and 2007) ?

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Jay Freedman - 16 Feb 2007 22:04 GMT

> I need to display a custom ribbon only if the user is creating a
> template.
> How do I know if the Active Document is a template (need to know for
> Word 2003 and 2007) ?

In VBA -- definitely in Word 2003, and probably also in 2007 although I
won't be able to check for a few hours -- you can look at the value of
ActiveDocument.Type. It could have values of wdTypeDocument (a constant
equal to 0) or wdTypeTemplate ( = 1) or wdTypeFrameset ( = 2).

I don't know whether there's some "native" way of doing this in RibbonX, or
if you'll have to write a callback procedure in VBA. Look at
http://www.pschmid.net/office2007/ribbonx/index.php for help with this.

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Michael Tissington - 19 Feb 2007 09:16 GMT

Thanks, just what I was looking for.

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