Word 2007 toolbar(s), templates and its user frontage

[Won]

Just started looking into Word 2007 and it seems that toolbars as in Word
2003 can no longer be produced. Is this correct?

Is the only place I can find to put macro buttons in Word 2007 is the Quick
Access toolbar and this is called "Default" on my version of Office 2007 and
all open Word documents can access the macro buttons there even though they
are meant for one template. On all other documents the macro buttons are
just cluttering the QAT.

Is it possible to create a Quick Access Toolbar for a particular template?

Using VB is it possible to create a new ribbon tab to contain the macro
buttons??? If so, can the tab just show when a document is based on a
particular template.

I already have two books on Office/Word 2007 and they cannot answer these
questions. They are "2007 Microsoft Office System Inside Out" and "Word 2007
Beyond the Manual", Neither of these really address the queries I have
raised with you (not even a mention that "self made toolbars are no longer
available"). Are there any better books about to help me cope with Office
2007 in particular Word 2007 and its limitations?

One alternative is to have a startup macro open the macro window (Alt+F8)
but I'd prefer not to do that because there are macros which I would rather
people did not see or try to run. Can I make the AutoNew macro, in
particular, invisible from the macro window?


Thanks for any help.

 

[Jay Freedman]

(1) See http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm.

(2) When you open a template other than Normal.dotm and then go into the
Customize dialog, you can change the "Customize Quick Access Toolbar"
dropdown in the upper right to select that other template as the destination
for added buttons. Those buttons will appear only in documents based on that
template.

(3) You can modify the ribbon, but not with VB. See
http://pschmid.net/office2007/ribbonx and
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Customize_Ribbon.htm, among other resources.

(4) Any method that would make the AutoNew macro invisible (either making it
Private or adding an argument) would make it not run automatically. Instead,
use the Document_New procedure
(http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/DocumentEvents.htm).

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Won]

Thank you for this information. However The Customize Quick Access Toolbar
does not display my template. It only shows the ³for all documents
(default)³

Could this be because I created the template on a Mac, then opened it in
Word 2007?

 

[Jay Freedman]

It isn't because the template was created on a Mac, but because it isn't a Word
2007-format (.dotx or .dotm) template. You can't save a Quick Access Toolbar
button in a Word 2003-format template, either.

 

[Won]

~I have saved one copy of my template as a dotx and another as a .dotm but
Word does not acknowledge them in the QAT.

However, I created a new template in Word 2007 and it shows in the QAT
dropdown menu.

Thanks very much for your help Jay.