Macros: copy word 03 to 07 Help?

[Guest]

i want to move my Word macros from an XP based computer with Office 2003 to a
Vista computer with Office 2007.....Thanks

 

[Jay Freedman]

i want to move my Word macros from an XP based computer with Office 2003 to a
Vista computer with Office 2007.....Thanks

Macros are usually stored in templates (.dot files), and specifically
in Normal.dot if you didn't choose another location. (It's possible,
but very undesirable, to store macros in document files.)

So copy the Normal.dot template from the Word 2003 installation. It's
a good idea to rename it to something else so you don't get it
confused with the Normal.dotx template that serves the same purpose in
Word 2007. On the Vista computer, open the Computer application and
type or paste this into the address box:

%appdata%\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP

and press Enter. Paste the template into this folder and restart Word.
All your macros will be available.

You may have to alter some things in some macros, depending on what
they do and how they were programmed. For instance, if they look for
or save documents with .doc extensions, you may want to change that to
..docx unless you're exclusively using the older file format. Macros
that create or modify toolbars or menus may have to be reprogrammed as
RibbonX (XML) code.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[kelliek]

Macros are usually stored in templates (.dot files), and specifically
in Normal.dot if you didn't choose another location. (It's possible,
but very undesirable, to store macros in document files.)

So copy the Normal.dot template from the Word 2003 installation. It's
a good idea to rename it to something else so you don't get it
confused with the Normal.dotx template that serves the same purpose in
Word 2007. On the Vista computer, open the Computer application and
type or paste this into the address box:

%appdata%\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP

and press Enter. Paste the template into this folder and restart Word.
All your macros will be available.

You may have to alter some things in some macros, depending on what
they do and how they were programmed. For instance, if they look for
or save documents with .doc extensions, you may want to change that to
.docx unless you're exclusively using the older file format. Macros
that create or modify toolbars or menus may have to be reprogrammed as
RibbonX (XML) code.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ:http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.

This works! Yeah!
Thanks for your expertise.
All my macros and autotext were migrated.
The only thing I really hate is that you can't type the autotext
abbreviation and have autocomplete popup. So then you only have to
press ENTER to insert the AutoText.
Hopefully, they will correct this in the next service pack.

Anyone have a script that would migrate user's normal.dot ('03) to '07
without having to go through all the steps?
We have about 300 computers to do.

The only thing