Re: Putting templates in a pulldown?

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From: StargateFan (IDon'tAcceptSpam_at_IDon'tAcceptSpam.com)
Date: 02/20/05 

Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 18:15:03 -0500

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 14:41:48 -0000, "TF"
<terryfarrell%40%6d%73%6e%2ecom> wrote:

>Thinking about this: it is easy peasy! Lets say that one of your templates
>is called AccountsFAX and you want a new menu called Templates
>
>Right-click on any Toolbar and select Customise
>Under Commands, Categories select New Menu and then drag the New Menu
>command to the Menu Bar
>Right-click on the New Menu and select Rename and change the name to ...
>(Templates?)
>Close all dialogs
>Use Tools, Macros, Record Macro and call it AccountsFAX (or whatever) and
>close to start the Recorder
>Click on the New button to open the New Dialog
>Select the tab and template and click Open (a document should now open based
>on the template)
>STOP the Macro Recorder
>Right-click on any Toolbar and select Customise
>Under Commands, Categories, click on Macros
>Find the newly recorded macro and drag and drop it onto the Word menu.
>
>Close all and save normal.dot on exit. Open Word and you will have the
>AccountsFAX in the Word menu. Repeat the operation for other templates. If
>you want to make this a global change, then create a new Template, and save
>all the macros to the new Template rather than normal.dot. Place the
>template in the Workgroup Startup folder on the server.
>
>I expect that if you post this question into one of the Word.VBA newsgroups
>some real VBA wiz will tell you how to automate this!

Thanks. I just realized that, because the above means many macros for
each template and I know that the pulldown given was one set of
instructions. Of course, it must have been VB given - I only started
in VB about a year ago and have come only a little way, to a
programmer's view I'm sure, in that time.

Thanks, I'll do that. And thanks for making me realize it would be a
VB solution.

>Terry
>
>"StargateFan" <IDon'tAcceptSpam@IDon'tAcceptSpam.com> wrote in message
>news:k31h11tdab93jijmld7nknrp65e5gvrga5@4ax.com...
>: On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 13:00:06 -0000, "TF"
>: <terryfarrell%40%6d%73%6e%2ecom> wrote:
>:
>: >Well, you could install the Work menu and add your templates, but the
>: >templates would open instead of a document based on the template. The
>: >correct solution is put the Command Tool for opening the New... dialog.
>: >Assuming you have Word 2003, this is how to do it.
>: >
>: >Right-click on a toolbar and select Customise.
>: >Click on the Commands tab and under Categories, select All Command.
>: >Look down the commands list for FileNewDialog and drag and drop it onto
>your
>: >Standard Toolbar.
>: >It will display as Other...
>: >Right-click on Other... and select one of the Button Image Options to add
>a
>: >button Image
>: >Right-click again and select Default Style.
>: >
>: >You now have a command that will open the New dialog at a single click.
>:
>: Thanks for the info!!
>:
>: I've already done that, as you can imagine.. Actually, the instant I
>: came into Word years ago, though we didn't use Word as much then as we
>: have to do now, I immediately made my toolbar more WP-like even to the
>: icons ("sacrilege", you might all shout! <g> I share icon button
>: images between _all_ my apps :oD). But that solution doesn't list the
>: templates in their folders, it just opens up the templates dialogue
>: box.
>:
>: A couple of years ago or so, someone in one of the Word ngs shared the
>: code for getting them all to display naturally like this from a
>: pulldown menu without inserting them manually. Just wish I had
>: somehow kept the info. At the time I wasn't looking for that, I was
>: looking for a way to display the icons better in that box (which there
>: wasn't a way to do, at least at the time), but the MVP told me about
>: this other nifty trick instead. Now that I _do_ need this, though, I
>: can't find it. :o)
>:
>: Ah well, I'll keep looking.
>:
>: Thanks much; appreciate the help.
>:
>: >--
>: >Terry Farrell - Word MVP
>: >http://word.mvps.org/
>: >
>: >"StargateFan" <IDon'tAcceptSpam@IDon'tAcceptSpam.com> wrote in message
>: >news:4fbd1193g8oonb9fi9hj8cphtl141618ep@4ax.com...
>: >:I remember some time back hearing about some coding, I think it was,
>: >: that will show the templates in a pulldown menu that we can access
>: >: instead of going the FILE > NEW... ? If I could remember what it was
>: >: called, I could look for the messages in the archives.
>: >:
>: >: Thanks.
>: >:
>: >
>:
>

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