AutoText selection on customized toolbars ...

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This post is linked to "Pausing a macro for user selection " (12/6/2003). Thanks Jezebel and Cindy M. for responding.

I am in the process of designing a customized toolbar on a user guide template. Since Word can't do what I want (pause a macro for user selection) I have rethought the problem and this is what I would like to do:

I have a number of sets of graphics, each suitable for a particular type of user guide. The users can choose which set of graphics suits their topic providing they *stay within the set* (i.e. they can't mix and match). I have saved the first set of graphics as AutoText entries and have associated them with a toolbar attached to a template. How can I add other sets of graphics but keep them separated from the first set? Can I have groups (categories) on the AutoText menu? Can I have several AutoText buttons on my toolbar that point to different locations?

Is it impossible what I am asking? Does anyone have any better ideas how to go about this?

THANKS, as always,

Sharon

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?U2hhcm9u?=,

Well, there is a way in Word to categorize AutoText entries: by applying a
particular style to each that should be in the same category. I'm not sure,
though, whether this approach would be appropriate for your purpose

I'd be more inclined to try something like this:
1. Create a separate template to carry the AutoText entries
2. Use the AutoText name to put them in categories (the first or last
couple of letters, for example)
3. In the actual working template, use the button for choosing the category
to copy (VBA, using the OrganizerCopy command) the desired set of AutoText
entries to the working template

There are all kinds of possible variations on this theme, but they would
all depend on using a specific combination of characters in the name for
identifying the set of AutoText entries. For example, you could dynamically
assign the AutoText entries (all in the main template) to the toolbar
buttons.

In any case, you'll almost certainly need a macro behind the scenes doing
the work.

I have a number of sets of graphics, each suitable for a particular type

of user guide. The users can choose which set of graphics suits their topic
providing they *stay within the set* (i.e. they can't mix and match). I
have saved the first set of graphics as AutoText entries and have
associated them with a toolbar attached to a template. How can I add other
sets of graphics but keep them separated from the first set? Can I have
groups (categories) on the AutoText menu? Can I have several AutoText
buttons on my toolbar that point to different locations?

Is it impossible what I am asking? Does anyone have any better ideas how to go about this?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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