Re: How to share macros on a network?
- From: "Charles Kenyon" <msnewsgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 13:32:01 -0600
Yes, and no.
If you do this, you cannot make any changes when anyone else has Word open.
They will lock the file.
If instead you have the user's login script update their local copy, you are
free to make changes which get updated next time a user logs in.
--
Charles Kenyon
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"David" <David@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> We have a similar situation but I put the template, in your case
> autofooter.dot, on a network drive accessible to all users and then
> created a
> Windows Shortcut in each user's Word\startup directory to point to the
> template. That way, if I want to make any changes, they only need to be
> changed in one place. In fact, we have a huge Standard.Dot template that
> has
> many, many shared macros and autotext entries that everyone can access
> very
> easily.
>
> - David
>
> "Charles Kenyon" wrote:
>
>> See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/PseudoAutoMacros.htm.
>>
>> Be very careful of your customization context in your macros. Unless you
>> set
>> it to being your template, your Add-In will become a very real nuisance,
>> similar in local behavior to a virus. You may want to look at the recent
>> thread with someone who was very upset because normal.dot kept bloating
>> when
>> his code was constantly making changes to normal.dot.
>>
>> The subject of the thread was "Normal.dot File increases (VBA Code)" and
>> it
>> started on October 25 (I think).
>>
>>
>> --
>> 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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>> "damezumari" <jannordgreen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:1134140026.563803.75650@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Thanks for your reply.
>> >
>> > I have put the AutoFooter.dot in the startup folder.
>> >
>> > The code in it includes AutoNew and AutoOpen subs. They do NOT fire
>> > when I create a new document or open an old one.
>> >
>> > How can I get them to fire?
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Jan Nordgreen
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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