removing all existing projects & toolbars

[Lucas Karpiuk]

is there any way to do this programatically?

currently all our users have toolbars & macros installed locally which has
become rather time consuming when there are changes/additions/updates. one
office has been using a shared network location as the startup directory and
we're going to implement it nationally - would like to create an install
macro that removes all existing toolbars & macro projects and then updates
the startup directory if possible?

thanks in advance!

 

[Jonathan West]

is there any way to do this programatically?

Yes. Toolbars and macros are stored in templates and add-ins. Delete the
templates containing them, and the toolbars and macros will go.

currently all our users have toolbars & macros installed locally which has
become rather time consuming when there are changes/additions/updates.

Then you need to find a more efficient way of handling deployment. There are
lots of options available. You could use SMS for the purpose (this is the
sort of thing SMS is designed for), you could call a batch file or a VBS
script as part of a user's login and have that copy the files to the
appropriate places.

one
office has been using a shared network location as the startup directory

Bad idea - see my other reply.

and
we're going to implement it nationally

Even worse idea.

- would like to create an install
macro that removes all existing toolbars & macro projects and then updates
the startup directory if possible?

Well, the startup folder can be changed programatically by either of two
ways.

1. For each user with an account on the PC, use automation to open a copy of
Word under that account, and change the Options.DefaultfilePath(8) property.

2. For each user, change the relevant key in the registry. For Word 2003, it
is
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Options
with the value STARTUP-PATH

Other versions of Word will use 10.0, 9.0 etc according to the version of
Office you are using

 

[Lucas Karpiuk]

again thank you for your response. i should have been more specific in my
question - how would i go about removing all toolbars & projects from the
Normal.dot template programatically?