How do I add 'insert filepath' command to a button?

[KateB]

I would like to add a button to a toolbar which will insert the document
filepath when clicked. Does anyone know how to do it??

 

[Jay Freedman]

I would like to add a button to a toolbar which will insert the
document filepath when clicked. Does anyone know how to do it??

If you have Word 2007, post back for different instructions. For Word 2003
or earlier:

Open the Tools > Customize dialog and click the Commands tab. In the
Categories list, click AutoText. In the Commands list, find "Filename and
path", and drag that item from the Customize dialog to the place on the
toolbar where you want it.

Initially the button will have just the text "Filename and path".
Right-click it, click "Change button image", and select an icon. Right-click
again and click "Default style" to make the button show only the icon.

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AsgnCmdOrMacroToToolbar.htm
for more info.

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[jstiglets]

I have MS Office 2007. Can you provide instructions for adding a button for
filename/path for 2007? and could you reply back to me at
(e-mail address removed)? Thank you

 

[Jay Freedman]

You've already received three answers to this question in the new thread you
started three hours earlier. Any one of them will solve the issue. The
answer I would have given you is substantially the same as Graham Mayor's.

Also, please understand that email replies to newsgroup posts are rare. The
point of the newsgroups is that answers are posted as replies to the
questions, so that anyone can read them and the whole community benefits.

 

[jstiglets]

Yes, I saw the other replies, but this question relates to setting up a
button. I am talking about adding a button to my file menu, not setting up a
template. Adding a button and setting up a template seem to be two different
things.

 

[jstiglets]

and, in your reply to LayB you wrote, "If you have Word 2007, post back for
different instructions" which is what I did.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Graham posted a macro in his reply. Store that macro in your Normal.dotm
template (see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm if you need help
with that).

Then create a button on the Quick Access Toolbar to run the macro. To do
that, go to Office button > Word Options > Customize, set the category to
Macros, select your new macro, and click the Add button. If you want, you
can then click the Modify button to change the icon that will appear on the
Quick Access Toolbar and to edit the text of the tooltip.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Installing buttons in Word 2007 and earlier is covered in the link to my web
page you have quoted.

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