shortcut menu not keeping changes

[Guest]

I have tried to add a frequently used macro to the right-mouse click
"shortcut Menu", but am having troubles.

I can get it to work perfectly - appearing and doing what I want it to do.

Problem: When I leave Word, so do all my modifications.

Yes I am saving global changes - I put a button on the tool bar and it stays
and work, just not able to keep changes to use later for right mouse click.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Are you sure you're looking at the same shortcut menu every time? There are,
as you have no doubt discovered, myriad contexts for the "context menus,"
and if you added the macro to only one or a few of the menus, you may be
seeing one to which you did not add it.

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

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[Guest]

Thanks for a speedy reply.

I have verified that the menu item works, but after I exit Word and go back
into Word, it disappears.

rtdtnx

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Do you by any chance have Adobe Acrobat 7.0?

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Words into Type
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[Guest]

I have Adobe Reader 7.0, Why?

Do you by any chance have Adobe Acrobat 7.0?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I don't think the Reader alone will cause the problem, as it does not
integrate with Word the way Acrobat does, but Acrobat 7.0 evidently sets the
Saved property of Normal.dot to True so that Word thinks it doesn't need to
be saved. You can save it explicitly by using File | Save All when you are
saving a document based on Normal.dot. To access the Save All command, press
Shift while clicking on File.

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

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[Guest]

Susanne,

Thanks for your help.

I am not sure that the problem is in not saving Normal.dot.

My other changes made at the same time (done to verify that the change was
working) were recorded, saved and verified by opening Word up the next time.

Any other solutions?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The only other possibility I can think of is that the menu addition is being
stored in some template other than Normal.dot and will appear only when that
template is in use (or that the macro is stored in another template and so
is unavailable to Normal.dot).

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

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