Re: problem with multiple startup templates in word

Add-Ins often battle for placement of menus. I haven't figured out how to
control it without code.
First, make sure your custom menus are created on custom toolbars, not the
built-in ones. This makes transfer much easier when needed.
You can copy them onto the built-in menus in addition if you need to.

If on custom toolbars, you could have code in each template's AutoExec macro
to display the custom toolbar (make it visible).

I have code in my Add-Ins that have custom toolbars that makes them visible
and gives them a docked location.
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Charles Kenyon

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"Fr@nk" <Frnk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Charles thanks for your reply, but what you describe is not the problem.
> Normal.dot is not changed here, but one or two (depending on the
> usergroup)
> self build templates are placed in the startup folder of word (which is
> default: C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application
> Data\Microsoft\Word\StartUp). The users are not allowed to change the
> filelocations of Word.
> Each of the two templates have a menu, in which the menu-items call a
> macro.
> The problem is that the display of these two menus is not consistent:
> sometimes one menu is shown, sometimes both are shown, while both
> templates
> are in the same folder (and both templates are opened, which you can see
> when
> you open the VBA IDE).
>
> FYI: it's Windows XP SP2 (Dutch), and Office XP with all the security
> patches (also Dutch).
>
>
>
>
>
> "Charles Kenyon" wrote:
>
>> You should be using global templates (Add-Ins) and not changing
>> normal.dot
>> foro this. Different users can have different Word startup folders.
>> --
>> 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://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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>> 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.
>>
>> "Fr@nk" <Frnk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:11CA017B-ED31-4B59-9CE4-C6EC1DA883AA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > I want to use two different startup template for word (depending on the
>> > group the user is in, the user will see one or two templates). Each
>> > template
>> > has its own menu in the menubar. This menu is used for calling macro's.
>> > So
>> > far no problem.
>> >
>> > The strange thing (strangs for me anyway) is that when a user should
>> > see
>> > two
>> > different menus, only one will show!
>> >
>> > Does anyone have an idea of why this happens?
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance,
>> >
>> > Cheerio,
>> > Fr@nk
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>


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