Howto put shortcut links in the new document Task Pane

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David Lewis

When you select New from the file pulldown menu you get the new document task pane on the left side of word in Word XP
or 2003. I'd like to setup standard shortcuts to standard company documents for all workstations in the company. There
would be links for company fax cover sheets, company memo's, etc....

How do I get shortcuts to those items
 
Instead of trying to customize the task pane (which is difficult if not
impossible), why not just add a toolbar button that opens the File New
dialog and let users create new documents from there?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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David Lewis said:
When you select New from the file pulldown menu you get the new document
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task pane on the left side of word in Word XP
or 2003. I'd like to setup standard shortcuts to standard company
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documents for all workstations in the company. There
 
I want 1 click access to a few standard company templates that are used over and over again.
I want to roll this out to all the users. Maybe something on the pulldown menu's?

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" <[email protected]>
|>Instead of trying to customize the task pane (which is difficult if not
|>impossible), why not just add a toolbar button that opens the File New
|>dialog and let users create new documents from there?
 
Hi David,

Yes, you can do that. You need to prepare an add-in template (that is,
one that each user stores in their Word Startup folder, as described
at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/WhatTemplatesStore.htm). In
that template, prepare a series of macros like this, one for each
standard template:

Public Sub NewInvoice()
On Error GoTo NoTemplate
Documents.Add "Invoice.dot"
Exit Sub
NoTemplate:
MsgBox "The template Invoice.dot is not available."
End Sub

This assumes that a standard template named Invoice.dot is stored in
the User Templates location on the user's PC. (It might work if it's
in the Workgroup Templates location -- I don't have a way to test that
right now.)

In the same add-in, create either toolbar buttons or menu items, one
to launch each macro, as described at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AsgnCmdOrMacroToToolbar.htm
 
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