Drea said:
I have successfully created a new tab in the templates dialog box for my
organisation's templates. The only way to access this is to go through
the
task pane, new document, on my computer. Is there a way I make the dialog
box automatically come up when I go to the toolbar>File>New?
Yes, you can do this. Proceed as follows:
1. Create an add-in (a template that will be located in the Startup folder
and hence automatically loaded when Word starts).
2. With the add-in template open as a document, go to Tools, Customize.
3. Click the Commands tab, and make sure the "Save in" box at the bottom
shows the name of your add-in.
4. In the categories box on the left, scroll down to and select "All
Commands"
5. In the Commands box on the right scroll down to FileNewDialog.
6. Click this item and drag it up to the File menu and drop it there, just
below the existing "New..." item
7. Delete the original "New..." item
8. Save the add-in.
The reason you should do this in an add-in rather than simply in normal.dot
is explained here
Distributing macros to other users
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/DistributeMacros.htm
