from .dot to .dll

[Hendrik Jan]

Hi,

In Ms Office 2000 we developed a dot file that crates a commandbar +
commandbarbutton in Ms Word. When you click on this button, the program
retrieves data from the database and puts it in your Ms Word document. Now we
are trying to build the same functionality in a dll. Therefore I started in
Office Developer 2000 a "addin" vba project. In the AddInDesigner I linked
the project to Ms Word with "Startup" as initial load behavior. In the code I
declared a commandbarbutton (Private WithEvents cbb As
Office.CommandBarbutton) that is placed in the commandbar in the
"IDTExtensibilty2_OnConnection". I copied the code (modules and forms) from
the dot file into modules and forms in this vba project. When I click the
commandbarbutton this code is started. When I start Ms Word the
commandbarbutton is created and clicking on it, the code starts as I want.
But this works only in the first document (document 1) in Ms Word. When I
create a new (document 2) document in Ms Word or I open a saved document, the
commandbarbutton is there, but when I click on it then nothing happens.

Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks,
Hendrik Jan

 

[Hendrik Jan]

Hoi,

I just solved the problem. When I define an unique string in the tag
property of the commandbarbutton, it works for all documents.

cbb.tag = "UNIQUE"