Custom Menus in Word 2007?

[Guest]

We are considering an upgrade to Office and aren't sure if we'll go to 2003
or 2007. We currently use Office/Word 2000 and have hundreds of templates
and some custom menus to run the templates. Most of the templates have vba
code in them that runs on File>New.

If we upgrade to Office 2007 I believe we lose the ability to create the
custom Word menus. So my question is....what other options are there for
accessing the templates if we go to 2007? The standard Word File>New dialog
(even if it's the same in 2007) is not an option because of the number of
template folders.

We had considered InfoPath and/or Sharepoint but not having actually seen
them in operation, are not really sure what might be a suitable replacement
for the menus.

There must be others out there pondering the same questions. Any ideas or
comments would be much appreciated.

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

Your current menus & toolbars will appear on the Add-Ins tab.
You can create items on the Ribbon using RibbonX.
So, what would you like to do?

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
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[Guest]

Well....the first thing I'm going to do is read everything on your site!

Thanks for the info. I'll get back when I've done more reading.
--
Thanks...
Adri

Your current menus & toolbars will appear on the Add-Ins tab.
You can create items on the Ribbon using RibbonX.
So, what would you like to do?

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
RibbonCustomizer Add-In: http://pschmid.net/office2007/ribboncustomizer
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed

 

[Dan Freeman]

Good answer!!!

Well....the first thing I'm going to do is read everything on your site!

Thanks for the info. I'll get back when I've done more reading.
--
Thanks...
Adri

Your current menus & toolbars will appear on the Add-Ins tab.
You can create items on the Ribbon using RibbonX.
So, what would you like to do?

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
RibbonCustomizer Add-In: http://pschmid.net/office2007/ribboncustomizer
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed

We are considering an upgrade to Office and aren't sure if we'll go to
2003
or 2007. We currently use Office/Word 2000 and have hundreds of
templates
and some custom menus to run the templates. Most of the templates have
vba
code in them that runs on File>New.

If we upgrade to Office 2007 I believe we lose the ability to create
the
custom Word menus. So my question is....what other options are there
for
accessing the templates if we go to 2007? The standard Word File>New
dialog
(even if it's the same in 2007) is not an option because of the number
of
template folders.

We had considered InfoPath and/or Sharepoint but not having actually
seen
them in operation, are not really sure what might be a suitable
replacement
for the menus.

There must be others out there pondering the same questions. Any ideas
or
comments would be much appreciated.