can't change or add a macro

[Jack Sons]

Hi all,


When I change anything (even the slightest change) in any macro in any of
the modules of Normal or when I add a new macro, next time I can't open
Word. Then I have to delete normal.dot and put in a copy of the normal.dot
as it was before I made a change. Very annoying and I have no idea what
causes this phenomenon. What causes this problem and how can I solve it
(once and for all)?

I am looking forward to your advice.

Jack Sons
The Netherlands

 

[Graham Mayor]

See http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm

It is possible that your default normal.dot is corrupt. Delete normal.dot
and allow Word to create a new one. You may have too many macros in the
normal template. Copy the macros you may wish to change often from the
default copy to the new one. Create a new template as an add-in to hold the
remainder of the macros.

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[Jack Sons]

Graham,

Thank you for your advice.

allow Word to create a new one

How do I do that?
Will I lose the standard way Word makes my documents?
Will I lose my custom buttons, toolbars or even more?
What else wil I lose?

too many macros

The number is 71, most are small macro's. The majority is in a module called
NewMacros, how that module got its name I don't know.
Could 71 really be too much?

Copy the macros you may wish to change often from the default copy to the
new one

schould I copy the macro's to Word first? And from Word to the new
normal.dot?

Create a new template as an add-in to hold the remainder of the macros.

Please elaborate on this:
- how to create a new template (what template and where?)
- how to make a template an add-in?
- what do you mean by "remainder of the macros"?

I'm really sorry for all these questions Graham; I can work a bit with
macros but I do not understand much of the system behind it, it differs too
much (for me) from how Excel works with macros.

Jack.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Graham,

Thank you for your advice.

How do I do that?

Rename normal.dot to normal.old with Word closed.

Will I lose the standard way Word makes my documents?

No - Word will create a new template with default settings.

Will I lose my custom buttons, toolbars or even more?
What else wil I lose?

You won't lose anything. You can copy the styles, toolbars, macros etc from
the old template to the newly created one, with the aid of the Organizer -
ALT+F8 > Organizer

The number is 71, most are small macro's. The majority is in a module
called NewMacros, how that module got its name I don't know.
Could 71 really be too much?

Macros created by the recorder automatically are saved in the New Macros
module. Could 71 be too many? Yes. Move some of them to a new template.

I'm really sorry for all these questions Graham; I can work a bit with
macros but I do not understand much of the system behind it, it differs
too much (for me) from how Excel works with macros.

Jack.

Not a problem - see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

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