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MS Office Forum / Word / Programming / March 2008Distributing Macros
Hi I am new to all this and thoroughly confused. I have a macro with accompanying buttons on the toolbar. I have saved this to my normal.dot so that when ever I open a new word doc the buttons and macro are available. I had tried saving as a template to the word start-up folder but the macros/buttons didn't show up when creating a new word doc. I want to make these available to others in the same way but the advice I have seen on the forum i.e. create a template to distribute is not going to work as it didn't for me, so the only way would be to change others normal.dot but I see this is not recommended. Can anyone tell me where I may be going wrong. Thanks Ross Open a blank document. Use the Organizer to copy your toolbar and associated macros to the blank document. If you wish, delete the macros and toolbar from normal.dot Save the blank document as a template *.dot. New documents created on that template will display your toolbar and have the macros available. If you want the toolbar and macros available to all documents, move that template into the Word startup folder. It then becomes a global template.  Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> > Hi I am new to all this and thoroughly confused. I have a macro with > accompanying buttons on the toolbar. I have saved this to my [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > Thanks > Ross Thanks Graham. Following your advice I have tried the organizer i.e. Tools/Templates & Add-Ins/Templates/Organiser/Toolbars - There is nothing displayed? When I say toolbars I mean I have add 2 buttons to the existing toolbar alongside -Tools/Edit/View/Insert etc. > Open a blank document. > [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > Thanks > > Ross What does "I had tried saving as a template" actually mean? You tried saving....what? In any case, make a NEW template and put your procedures in there - I am guessing you have them in normal.dot. Do not do this. Put youtr button on the toolbar in THAT new template. Now that template has both the procedures and their buttons. Now you can put that template in startup. >Thanks Graham. > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >> > Thanks >> > Ross It's ok I've got it now, thanks both for your help, much appreciated! > What does "I had tried saving as a template" actually mean? > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > >> > Thanks > >> > Ross
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