Customize macro button images

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Parish Pete

When I ran Word 2000, I had 7 customised macro buttons (made in the inbuilt
icon designer) on my toolbar showing text indicating the use of each button.
Most of the buttons created a letter template and the remainder auto text
addresses.

They were always visible and single click, job done.

Now I can't use the macro route as the button images provided are meaningless.
I've tried auto text, but the text just gets the default style treatment.
I could save individual templates but that means opening them first.

Have I missed something blindingly obvious?

I've seen the references to Excel QAT files. Life is too short to mess
about with that depth of programming. A simple bitmap generator would have
sufficed.

Please turn back the clock and make the arduous simple.

I'm sorry Microsoft, Word 2000 worked for me. I seem to be working FOR word
2007.
 
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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

Your buttons should appear under the Add-ins tab of the Ribbon.

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP
 
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Parish Pete

Graham Mayor said:
See http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm
See also http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Customize_Ribbon.htm

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com

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After much delving on the net, I found the absolute simple answer:

First tidy up the button images to suit 2007 by using 2000/2003 and paste
the old normal.dot file in the word startup folder. The buttons always
appear in addins every time. Subsequently they can put in the QAT.

Sorted!
 

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