personal toolbar word 2007

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the beta 2 office 2007 - I would like to create my own toolbars and allow for
text or icon based toolbars
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[Patrick Schmid]

Hi Dominic,

All you will get in Office 2007 is the Quick Access Toolbar. You can
position it below or above the ribbon and add controls and groups to it.
That's it. Microsoft has made VERY clear that you won't be able to
create your own toolbars.
For a discussion of what you as a user can customize in Office 2007,
see:
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/05/24/9

Patrick Schmid

 

[Guest]

cheers - nice blog - pitty about the non customizing

 

[Guest]

I have a toolbar created by a VBA macro written in previous version of Word
(and stored in .dot file in startup folder). The toolbar shows in the
Add-ins tab of the ribbon. So far, Word 2007 happily opens .dot templates
from old versions of word.

 

[Patrick Schmid]

Hi Patricia,

Yes it is possible to create items on the ribbon and have them be there.
One way to do so is by using CommandBars from previous versions.
However, you don't get the benefit of a real toolbar, namely that it is
always visible and usable. You can't even keep the Add-Ins tab in the
foreground all the time, because Office will switch tabs sometimes
automatically.

Patrick Schmid

 

[Patrick Schmid]

Thanks Dominic! Subscribe to the blog and you'll find out when my add-in
to do some real customization will be available to download

Patrick Schmid

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You might want to see Savraj Dhanjal's weekly (Thursday) posts about Ribbon
customization in Jensen Harris's Office UI blog at
http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/; for just Savraj's columns, see
http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/category/11280.aspx

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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the beta 2 office 2007 - I would like to create my own toolbars and allow for
text or icon based toolbars
--
music is all I need

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