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MS Office Forum / Word / Programming / September 2005Set order startup templates are loaded?
I have a few startup templates (e.g. Blogger) which add useful functionality but take up too much space on the screen by adding a toolbar. I moved the toolbar items into menus out the way. Then I created an AutoExec macro in another template which closes the toolbars I don't want. All these templates are in the startup folder. The problem is, my template is loaded and the macro executed before the others, so the toolbars I want to close do not yet exist. Can this order be mandated at all? >I have a few startup templates (e.g. Blogger) which add useful >functionality but take up too much space on the screen by adding a toolbar. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > others, so the toolbars I want to close do not yet exist. Can this order > be mandated at all? Not that I'm aware of. But what you could do is have the AutoExec macro of your add-in trigger another macro after a delay, by using the OnTime method. Set the macro to run after a few seconds to give time for the other add-ins to load. The macro can then hide the toolbars.  SignatureRegards Jonathan West - Word MVP www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk Please reply to the newsgroup Keep your VBA code safe, sign the ClassicVB petition www.classicvb.org I have one startup template in my Startup folder. It loads 17 others in the order I want as part of its AutoExec macro. SignatureCharles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. >I have a few startup templates (e.g. Blogger) which add useful >functionality but take up too much space on the screen by adding a toolbar. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > others, so the toolbars I want to close do not yet exist. Can this order > be mandated at all? You might also make use of the fact that global templates are loaded in reverse alphabetical order. So customizations in one whose name starts with "A" override those whose names start with "B"... Normal.dot loads after the global templates. So if some global template shows a toolbar or button or menu item, you can remove it in Normal.dot. If your documents have attached templates, those can even override Normal.dot, so you can make the toolbars specific to your documents. You don't really need an AutoExec or OnTime. I don't like those much because users should be able to customize Word the way *they* want. If I hide the toolbar of some global template or add-in, I have my reasons, and don't appreciate it one bit if the template/add-in forces its customizations on me again every time I start Word. Regards, Klaus >I have a few startup templates (e.g. Blogger) which add useful >functionality but take up too much space on the screen by adding a toolbar. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > others, so the toolbars I want to close do not yet exist. Can this order > be mandated at all? > You might also make use of the fact that global templates are loaded in > reverse alphabetical order. > So customizations in one whose name starts with "A" override those whose > names start with "B"... This worked. Thanks very much. I had tried making my template the last alphabetically, thinking that might be the order used. > Normal.dot loads after the global templates. So if some global template > shows a toolbar or button or menu item, you can remove it in Normal.dot. For me, the startup templates are being loaded after normal.dot. Closing the toolbar in normal.dot generates an error becasue there is no such toolbar. > If your documents have attached templates, those can even override > Normal.dot, so you can make the toolbars specific to your documents. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > appreciate it one bit if the template/add-in forces its customizations on me > again every time I start Word. Exactly! > Regards, > Klaus Further to cloud the issue, Acrobat 6 *resets* the main toolbar before adding its own menu options, cheerfully discarding any options that other add-ins might have loaded. >> You might also make use of the fact that global templates are loaded in >> reverse alphabetical order. [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] >> Regards, >> Klaus I've seen the Acrobat add-in casue so many problems on so many machines I never install it, and tell people to print to the PDF driver instead. Where people insist on using it, I've seen it disappear inexplixably and has had to be copied into the startup folder again. I would rather Word could save the PDF format itself and take Acrobat out of the equation to save the hassle! SignatureBMC Delete delete and remove remove to email > Further to cloud the issue, Acrobat 6 *resets* the main toolbar before > adding its own menu options, cheerfully discarding any options that other > add-ins might have loaded. G'day BMC <newsdeletegroup@inselremoveaffe.co.uk>, My solution is to install the Acrobat add-in, then immediately move PDFMaker* files to a standby directory, ready to copy back when needed. Steve Hudson - Word Heretic steve from wordheretic.com (Email replies require payment) Without prejudice BMC reckoned: >I've seen the Acrobat add-in casue so many problems on so many machines I >never install it, and tell people to print to the PDF driver instead. >Where people insist on using it, I've seen it disappear inexplixably and has >had to be copied into the startup folder again. >I would rather Word could save the PDF format itself and take Acrobat out of >the equation to save the hassle! |
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