Sharing Macros, Styles and Autotext

[lesaodaniel]

I've created some word templates for a new employer who wants to start
becoming more consistent in their docs, styles, etc., and they eventually
want to start a word processing center. My background includes 6 years of
word processing experience, but template and macro creation has only been a
side project for me in the past and I've never done it for a company
before... Maybe I'm not doing this right...

I created a new template loaded with all the new styles I created, as well
as some macros (a couple of nifty menus), etc. However, I'm now trying to
share it with the rest of the company and it doesn't seem to be working
properly...

Ideally, I would like to put the template into the workgroup templates path
so that whenever I add new code or styles, etc., to the main template, the
users won't have to do anything on their end.

I tried doing it this way, but when I modified the File Location to this
path for a couple of users (to test it out), nothing loaded on their
computers - even after restarting word. (We're using Word 2003, btw).

So I tried another option and put the template into the users'
....Word/Startup folder. This worked, but I don't want to have to load this
into every user's startup folder (and I know they won't do it themselves)
every time I make a change to the template... Because the company is still
changing, I imagine their need for macros and new templates will be changing
frequently as they learn to work with templates, styles, macros, etc., and as
they realize how many more macros we can have available to them...

Any suggestions for sharing this without having to go to every person's desk
every time? Thanks,

Lesa

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

The correct way to do it is given in the article "Distributing macros to
other users†at:

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/DistributeMacros.htm


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[Jean-Guy Marcil]

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I've created some word templates for a new employer who wants to start
becoming more consistent in their docs, styles, etc., and they
eventually want to start a word processing center. My background
includes 6 years of word processing experience, but template and
macro creation has only been a side project for me in the past and
I've never done it for a company before... Maybe I'm not doing this
right...

I created a new template loaded with all the new styles I created, as
well as some macros (a couple of nifty menus), etc. However, I'm now
trying to share it with the rest of the company and it doesn't seem
to be working properly...

Ideally, I would like to put the template into the workgroup
templates path so that whenever I add new code or styles, etc., to
the main template, the users won't have to do anything on their end.

I tried doing it this way, but when I modified the File Location to
this path for a couple of users (to test it out), nothing loaded on
their computers - even after restarting word. (We're using Word 2003,
btw).

So I tried another option and put the template into the users'
...Word/Startup folder. This worked, but I don't want to have to load
this into every user's startup folder (and I know they won't do it
themselves) every time I make a change to the template... Because the
company is still changing, I imagine their need for macros and new
templates will be changing frequently as they learn to work with
templates, styles, macros, etc., and as they realize how many more
macros we can have available to them...

Any suggestions for sharing this without having to go to every
person's desk every time? Thanks,

Lesa

Make sure that all users use the same relative local folder as a Startup
folder.

Tthen, talk to IT people in your company so that they can write a log on
script that will check if a user needs to update its templates by comparing
the create date of their templates to the ones stored on the central server.
If they need to update their templates, the script will automatically copy
them when they log on. Just load your templates on the server at the end of
the day so that in the morning, when users log on, they will get the new
templates automatically.

It seems like a lot of work, but for a competent IT person, it won't take
them more than 15 minutes to write the script once they understand what
needs to be done.