How to enable Developer tab in Word 2007 Blog template?

[ying]

Word 2007 provides a template to do blog post, a wonderful feature. I am
using it to post to Blogger. But the template doesn't provide a means to
label(every other blogger engine calls it tag) a post. So I want to customize
the blog template to enable this. But ribbon for blog.dotx somehow hides
Developer tab. I checked the Word Options, developer tab has enabled there.
How can I turn on the Developer tab?

Thanks
Ying

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

If what you really need to do is get to the Visual Basic Editor, Alt+F11
will open it whether the Developer tab is displayed or not.

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[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Another though, you may need to open the template (using File>Open) to turn
on the Developer tab in it.

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[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Ying,

I see that you also posted the question on the MS Word team blog <g>. Joe Friend and a couple of other folks on the Word/Office
2007 teams have moved over to http://officelabs.com, but it will be interesting to see if you get a response on the Word Team blog.
(As you noted several of the Word 2007 entries on Joe's separate blog are broken).

The Word 2007 Blog Tool feature was a late addition to MS Word 2007 and runs from a built in add-on/miniapp feature through
MSOIntl.DLL (language specific). The Blog Tool has its own RibbonX customization that doesn't include making the regular Ribbon
tabs visible and it is somewhat limited in working with several blog providers. Perhaps MS will update it for Service Pack 2, they
didn't for Service Pack 1.

This custom ribbon is invoked when calling the \BlogTool schema, and the Custom Ribbon and Content Control in a new blog post are
triggered by having a DocVar="Blog" in the Settings.xml part in the Blog template. Be careful when modifying the underlying parts
of this feature set, it appears to be a bit fragile.

Is there a specific tool on the Developer tab you're looking to use to add a tagging feature into the template rather than adding it
on the service? The Keyboard shortcuts still work for items from the Developer Tab (for example Alt+F11 will start the VBA Editor),
or you can save a copy of the Blog.dotx template, then use
Office Button=>Word Options=>Customize
Set the 'Customize Quick Access Toolbar' choice to appear only in 'Blog.dotx' (or the name you created to work on), then in the
'Choose Commands from' list select Developer tag and put the parts on the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT).

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Word 2007 provides a template to do blog post, a wonderful feature. I am
using it to post to Blogger. But the template doesn't provide a means to
label(every other blogger engine calls it tag) a post. So I want to customize
the blog template to enable this. But ribbon for blog.dotx somehow hides
Developer tab. I checked the Word Options, developer tab has enabled there.
How can I turn on the Developer tab?

Thanks
Ying>>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Based on Bob Buckland's response, this suggestion would not be applicable.

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[ying]

Hi, Bob and Doug,
Thank you very much for helping me out.
Bob,
In blog template, the Blog Post tab has a button called Insert Category,
which seems to work with other blogger engine but not Blogger, it is greyed
out when the backend is Blogger. That is where I want to put my
customization. I was trying to see how Blog Post tab handles users event by
turning on Developer tab. But from what you told me, even if I have developer
tab, I probably won't be able to see MS ribbon customization.
I am new to Office customization, and I may get ahead of myself. But do you
think there is a way that I can simply subclass Blog Post and overwrite the
logic of Insert Category button by injecting my own code? I have Visual
Studio 2008 and I see there are some project templates related to Office
customization. Can I do something there to achieve my goal?
I searched MSDN for the office related VS08 templates, with no success. Do
you know any resources/helpfiles related to VSTO 2008?
Thanks
Ying