Normal.dotm Won't Adopt Old Macros, & Code When Pasted is Seen asHaving Bugs

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My employer created macros over the years that were working fine in
his HP laptop newly installed with Vista and Office 2007.

One day they no longer worked.

Word 2007 refuses to allow me to replace the normal.dotm file with the
file that has all the macros.

I am not permitted to overwrite the normal.dotm template. I tried
deleting it but renaming the file that has the macros is not seen as
the .dotm file and a new normal.dotm file is created automatically by
MS Word, and a blank template returns.

I have tried to paste the code from the macros into the normal.dotm
file which works to some degree but when I go to run the macro, bugs
are detected and the macro will not run even though I simply coped and
pasted the code without editing any of the code.

My employed does not want to re-create the old macros that are already
contained in an old file. How can I transfer these old macros into the
global template?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You can copy macros from one template to another using the Organizer.
There's probably another way to reach it, but one path is Developer | Code |
Macros: Organizer. But you should be able to overwrite Normal.dotm if Word
is closed.

 

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I found out that even though I closed MS Word's interface, it was
running in the background which is why I could not overwrite the
normal.dotm file. However, once I rename the template to normal.dotm,
MS Word says it cannot open that template and creates a new blank
template.

Anyhow, looks like simply going to the organizer section in the
developer code area works but won't know until my employer gets fully
into using MS Word like he usually does with macros.

Thanks.

 

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Now, Ctrl + T and other key combos that were once set are not working
to activate the macros.

How do align the key combinations to activate each macro?

 

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There is also help here - http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA100997691033.aspx

Looks like the shortcut key commands need to be re-entered for the
macros, is this right?

 

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Also here - http://office.microsoft.com/trainin...ID=RP060786221033&CTT=6&Origin=RP060786211033

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Office Button | Word Options | Customize: Keyboard shortcuts: Customize...
Select the Macros category, find a specific macro, and reassign the desired
keyboard shortcut.

 

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Many Thanks.