## "Newborn" customized VS built-in toolbar ##

[Wai]

Product: MS Word 2002

"Newborn" customized toolbar
a toolbar which is made by creating a completely new one
(eg you add all the components of the standard toolbar to
your new one, and make some changes based on
your "newborn" customized standard toolbar)

Modified built-in toolbar
a toolbar which you just change some from built-in
toolbars.


The reason why I wish to do so is simply MVPs tell me it
is the best (they once said customizing your toolbars by
creating new ones, not modify from built-in toolbars).


However after a whole day for me to create tons
of "newborn" customized toolbars, I found some problems
which might defy me from doing so.



Pros of "newborn" customized toolbar
- easy to translate between files
- if normal.dot is lost, still can transfer them from
other templates


Pros of modified built-in toolbars
- lots of work saved in "copying" the existing components
of built-in toolbars
- no problems between the links of some icnons and
toolbars
Problem Sample:
- When I push the drawing icon to call the drawing
toolbar out, the built-in will be called, instead of
my "newborn" drawing toolbar.



Now I am in a dilemma. Should I keep building
all "newborn" customized toolbars, or should I just
add/modify under built-in toolbars?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I won't venture an opinion on this but will point out that what you are
calling "newborn" toolbars are what Microsoft calls "custom" (as opposed to
"customized") toolbars.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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[Wai]

If we have been able to transfer modified built-in
toolbars between documents, life would have been much
simplier.