please clarify menu customization context

[MikeB77]

Hello
I've read to not change normal.dot when adding a custom menu. So I've put my
custom menu and macros on a global template and saved the template in the
startup folder (wdStartupPath). When i do this (and checked its loaded as an
add-in) I can only see my menu when there is a document open that is attached
to the global template (which I've read I should never have, and don't want).
When the active document is attached to normal.dot I cannot see my menu. But
with alt-F8 I can see my macros on the template.
I thought I had read customization and macros on global templates were
available (and visible) to all open documents, whatever their template. Can
someone pleases clarify if this is supposed to work?

FYI... I've built my menu at runtime with customization context as the
global template and set to visible and enabled. I've also made one manually
at design time with the same result. Word 2002 and 2007

Thanks!

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

MikeB77 was telling us:
MikeB77 nous racontait que :

Hello
I've read to not change normal.dot when adding a custom menu. So I've
put my custom menu and macros on a global template and saved the
template in the startup folder (wdStartupPath). When i do this (and
checked its loaded as an add-in) I can only see my menu when there is
a document open that is attached to the global template (which I've
read I should never have, and don't want). When the active document
is attached to normal.dot I cannot see my menu. But with alt-F8 I can
see my macros on the template.
I thought I had read customization and macros on global templates were
available (and visible) to all open documents, whatever their
template. Can someone pleases clarify if this is supposed to work?

FYI... I've built my menu at runtime with customization context as the
global template and set to visible and enabled. I've also made one
manually at design time with the same result. Word 2002 and 2007

Toolbars and macros in a global template are available to all documents.

If they are not on your machine, then there is something wrong in your
setup.
Make sure that the said global template is in the start-up folder (Check
Tools > Options > File Locations tab).


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Salut!
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