Why do the macros disappear?

[Jo Gjessing]

Hi all,

In a Word document of mine I have a few macrobutton fields which look like
this: {MACROBUTTON NoMacro [Click here and write a text]}. Also I have a
macro connected to the BeforePrint event which colors the macrobutton fields
white so that they do not appear on print outs. A macro connected to the
AfterPrint event recolors them black afterwards. All of this work very well.
However, when I remame the file from <filename>.doc to <filename>.dot and
make a new .doc file from it, the macros disappear. Why is this and what can
I do so that the macros do not disappear? I can put them into the normal.dot
file, but that will be a great job because almost 350 users need them...

Have you any idea what I can do so please let me know. Thank you very much
in advance.

Jo

 

[Lene Fredborg]

You say you rename the doc file to doc. If this means that you simply change
the file extension from doc to dot, this does not convert your document to a
template. It will show a template icon but it is still a normal document. In
order to create a real template, you must save the document as a template,
i.e. select “Document Template (*.dot) in the Save As dialog box. The above
may be the cause of the problems you see. In that case, you could try the
following to see what happens:

Open a document you create based on the “fake†template you made. If you
look in Tools > Templates and Add-Ins, you will see that the attached
template is _not_ your fake template (because it is not a template). Instead,
it is the template on which your original .doc file was based (which may be
Normal.dot).

Instead of creating macros in templates used as the basis for documents, you
could create a separate template with all the macros, toolbars, etc. you want
to make available to users. Such template can function as an add-in that is
available to all documents if it is placed in the users’ Word Startup folder.
See:
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/DistributeMacros.htm

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Regards
Lene Fredborg - Microsoft MVP (Word)
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word