Organizing Templates for Office Use

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Ridge Kennedy - 26 Apr 2006 21:20 GMT

I'm planning to distribute some word automation tools to our network users
(Office 2003, XP workstations & Server 2003) via login scripts, copying the
files to users' Word>Startup directories. We will have some Autotext
entries, some autocorrect entries and some Toolbars that run macro code.

Is it bettter to have one big Add-Ins template, or to separate the functions
and have different templates for each. Latter seems better and and easier
to maintain. Is there a big hit on the resource usage, or other reasons to
consolidate into fewer or just one template?

Thanks,

Ridge

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Charles Kenyon - 26 Apr 2006 22:19 GMT

I use separate, modular templates. Note, though, that you want to have any
macros/styles/AutoText that you put in a menu to be in the same template as
the menu. I have eighteen Add-Ins loaded and haven't noticed a drain on
resources. (Word startup is delayed noticeably, though, as they load.)

See http://addbalance.com/word/movetotemplate.htm for step-by-step
instructions on moving / sharing / copying / backing-up customizations
including AutoText, AutoCorrect, keyboard assignments, toolbars, macros,
etc.

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Ridge Kennedy - 27 Apr 2006 18:59 GMT

Thank you, sir. R.

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