Re: Custom Toolbars Fail to Appear

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User Templates and Workgroup Templates should be different folders. 
Workgroup templates should point to a folder, the contents of which are 
shared. User Templates is the location for normal.dot and should _not_ be 
shared. The Startup folder should be yet another folder (outside either of 
the templates folders). For more on the different kinds of templates, tabs 
on the file new dialog, and locations of templates folders see 
http://addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm.

Are you sure that your macros and toolbars are being saved in your template 
rather than in normal.dot? 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.
-- 

Charles 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://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"GRobertson via OfficeKB.com" <u18150@uwe> wrote in message 
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> Thank you for the reply on this.
>
> I did try opening the template and the 3 toolbars are on.  When I open a
> document with the template the toolbars still fail to appear.  When 
> opening
> documents created using that template they also have the issue of no 
> toolbars
> appearing. (which makes me think something happened to the template itself 
> or
> how it is accessed)
>
> I thought that the template was only stored in my templates folder.  My
> startup folder (C:\Documents and Settings\[user name]\Application Data\
> Microsoft\Word\Startup) has no files at all.  when I go to 
> Tools>Options>File
> Locations I do not see a listing for Global Templates.  I have User 
> Templates
> and Workgroup Templates, which both point to the folder location in my
> original posting.
>
> Again, thank you for respnoding. With a little luck, my answers may help 
> in
> diagnosing the problem.
>
>
> Beth Melton wrote:
>>Did you try opening the template, turning the toolbar on, making an
>>edit in the template, save and close? Or did you try turning on the
>>toolbar after opening a document based on the template?
>>
>>Also, based on your description, it sounds like it is in both your
>>User Templates folder and your Startup folder (global templates). Is
>>this correct? And if so, why?
>>
>>Beth Melton
>>Microsoft Office MVP
>
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