Word 2003 - Where does Word store Userform code?

[Congenital Kano]

I created a template and userform to fill in a form letter for my wife's PTA treasurer job on my PC. Worked just fine - creating a new doc based on the template called the userform and passed the variables to the doc. I copied the letter template to various locations on her machine (including the default \users\...\templates) directory. The template shows up, but when I create a new doc based on the template the userform does not appear.

OK, I thought, maybe it's because her machine has Word 2002 and it was created in 2003; I install 2003 on her machine. No love.

Fine, maybe it is making a call to normal.dot, so I replaced her Normal.dot with mine. I know it is using my normal.dot because my macro buttons etc. appear. Still will not call the userform.

What am I doing wrong? What do I need to copy or change to call the userform from the template?

One thing that niggles my memory is whether I was asked to save the userform to a certain location - I don't remember (as I recall, you don't save the userform, just close the VBA window, but I may have been asked for a location the first time).

Any help will be appreciated. The trouble I get into when trying to be nice to my wife...

TIA!

 

[Greg Maxey]

I can only assume that the user form is part of the template project.

Open the template, then open the VB Editor (Alt+F11). Open the project explorer CTRL+r and see if you have a forms folder in the project that contains your form.

Did you include an AutoNew() procedure in your template to initialize and show the form?

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I created a template and userform to fill in a form letter for my wife's PTA treasurer job on my PC. Worked just fine - creating a new doc based on the template called the userform and passed the variables to the doc. I copied the letter template to various locations on her machine (including the default \users\...\templates) directory. The template shows up, but when I create a new doc based on the template the userform does not appear.

OK, I thought, maybe it's because her machine has Word 2002 and it was created in 2003; I install 2003 on her machine. No love.

Fine, maybe it is making a call to normal.dot, so I replaced her Normal.dot with mine. I know it is using my normal.dot because my macro buttons etc. appear. Still will not call the userform.

What am I doing wrong? What do I need to copy or change to call the userform from the template?

One thing that niggles my memory is whether I was asked to save the userform to a certain location - I don't remember (as I recall, you don't save the userform, just close the VBA window, but I may have been asked for a location the first time).

Any help will be appreciated. The trouble I get into when trying to be nice to my wife...

TIA!