Save Work Menu Items

[Montserrat]

Hi,

Getting back to the topic of my losing items I have "added to work menu"
after re booting or restarting after quitting, freezing, or crashing...I
have been going over my notes from the last time I brought up this topic,
and either I missed something, or the answer was not completely worked out
on the NG because I am having the same problem losing work menu items.

What I have learned is that in order to keep or change 'customize' items, I
must press the "save all" icon, and say yes to the dialogue that offers me
'yes' to save to normal tamplate. That works and I no longer lose customize
changes I've made.

I still don't have the key to not losing work menu items.

Any feedback, or a reminder of something I missed? I see that there was some
uncertainty among the MVPs about this and I don't think the issue was
solved.

Thanks, Rafael

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Okay. We've had this conversation before, but apparently it didn't make it
into your notes. There was no uncertainty--there was a mistake, which got
fixed.

Different types of customizations are held in different places. Some
customizations (e.g., toolbars) are held in templates, usually the Normal
template. Others are held in the preferences file. The "save all" routine
only saves the Normal templates, it does nothing to any of the other
locations that may hold customizations.

Read here for a longer explanation, although the file locations/names may be
different for Office 2001. But the same concepts apply.
http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/BackUpPrefs.htm

The Work Menu is held in the preferences file. If you keep losing your work
menu, I can only think that your prefs is corrupted. Since the fix for a
corrupt prefs is to trash prefs which loses your work menu anyhow, I'm going
to suggest you take a different route.

Read this page, about global templates in Word
http://www.mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/word/globaltemplate.html
You don't need to do anything on that page, necessarily, just read it so
that you can understand this page,
http://www.mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/word/workmenu/workmenu.html
Which tells you how to manipulate the work menu.
You should then be able to install an AutoExec macro that will load all the
right files into the work menu everytime you launch.

Daiya

 

[Montserrat]

OK. I'm reading the stuff you posted. URL
http://www.mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/word/globaltemplate.html
doesn't want to appear on my screen other than as a long vertical line of
text, two to three words to each line. I've tried opening the file
different ways, but that's how it comes up.

Rafael

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Sorry, I forgot you were on OS 9. Yeah, IE 5 is so obsolete JE didn't
bother bastardizing his web code to suit it. Don't think there's much to be
done about that...

You could see if copy and paste into Word lets you get a better format,
though don't think it will bring the images...

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Sorry, I forgot you were on OS 9. Yeah, IE 5 is so obsolete JE didn't
bother bastardizing his web code to suit it. Don't think there's much to be
done about that...

You could see if copy and paste into Word lets you get a better format,
though don't think it will bring the images...

Yeah, working to change that is on my list, but way down.

Problem is that MacIE5 and WinIE6 are broken in different and
incompatible ways. For the stylesheets I'm using, I had to make a
choice, and I have far more hits from WinIE than MacIE.

If you override the stylesheet, you should be able to see text and
graphics. I *think* you can do that in IE5.

 

[Montserrat]

I did copy it into word, and the formatting is good, but no images and no
operating links that way. I suppose I could find the links on the website
but that's awkward and besides, the images there are indistinct. Can I get
what I need to know from the text alone?

Rafael

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Don't "copy" it into Word, "Open" it from within Word. Use the Web toolbar
to do that...

I did copy it into word, and the formatting is good, but no images and no
operating links that way. I suppose I could find the links on the website
but that's awkward and besides, the images there are indistinct. Can I get
what I need to know from the text alone?

Rafael

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