How can I insure that the toolbar settings will remain the same until I change them?

[Keith Brickey]

Using Word 2003 (11.5604.5606) my toolbar settings are not persistent from
one use of a document to the next. How can I insure that the toolbar
settings will remain the same until I change them?

Thanks,

Keith

 

[Graham Mayor]

Given that it is possible for toolbars to be saved in documents, templates
and add-ins this is something that can be a bit tricky to manage. What
toolbars are you having problems with and what do you want to happen?

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[Keith Brickey]

I use the web tool bar because it has a "back" button and our documents,
which are very long, use hyperlinks for navigation inside the document. It
is very annoying to have to manually display the web toolbar each time we
open a document. Any suggestions as to how we can make the web toolbar
persistent?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/SaveViewAndZoom.htm. As Graham says,
though, this is iffier in more recent versions of Word.

 

[Graham Mayor]

There are a couple of things you could do. The first is to add a line to
each of an autoopen and autonew macro (create the macros if necessary) in
normal.dot, which will force the web toolbar on, against its better
instinct, each time you open or create a document:

Sub AutoOpen()
CommandBars("Web").Visible = True
End Sub
Sub AutoNew()
CommandBars("Web").Visible = True
End Sub

I have a personal toolbar, that I park amongst the others, to which I have
added toggles to the toolbars I use regularly - eg Forms, MailMerge, Review
etc. These simply operate a variation of the macro command above to toggle
the appropriate bar on/off

Sub ToggleWebBar()
With CommandBars("Web")
..Visible = Not .Visible
End With
End Sub

As you expressed an interest in the 'back' command. You could add this
command to a standard toolbar (using tools > customize)and have it available
regdarless of whether the Web bar is displayed.

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm will explain how to use the macro
code.
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[keith brickey]

Thank you. this sounds promising.

There are a couple of things you could do. The first is to add a line to
each of an autoopen and autonew macro (create the macros if necessary) in
normal.dot, which will force the web toolbar on, against its better
instinct, each time you open or create a document:

Sub AutoOpen()
CommandBars("Web").Visible = True
End Sub
Sub AutoNew()
CommandBars("Web").Visible = True
End Sub

I have a personal toolbar, that I park amongst the others, to which I have
added toggles to the toolbars I use regularly - eg Forms, MailMerge, Review
etc. These simply operate a variation of the macro command above to toggle
the appropriate bar on/off

Sub ToggleWebBar()
With CommandBars("Web")
.Visible = Not .Visible
End With
End Sub

As you expressed an interest in the 'back' command. You could add this
command to a standard toolbar (using tools > customize)and have it available
regdarless of whether the Web bar is displayed.

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm will explain how to use the macro
code.
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Web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word
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