Word 2003 and Add-ins..

[Guest]

I've deployed Word 2003 (office 2003), via group policy, to about 10
computers. I'm able to set several options in Word 2003 via GPOs.
When I go to Tools, Templates and Add-Ins.. to add macro that these users
need; I can add the macro just fine and I see the new button up on the
toolbar. However, If they were to close Word the macro is no longer loaded
automatically. They need to manually go back to Tools and Templates and add a
check mark next to the macro. Is there a way to have Word remember this
setting or maybe load this macro directly via group policy?

Thanks.

 

[Graham Mayor]

You need to set the folder containing the add-in as the startup folder for
each of the users. If it is in any other folder it will not be checked on
start-up.

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[Jay Freedman]

I've deployed Word 2003 (office 2003), via group policy, to about 10
computers. I'm able to set several options in Word 2003 via GPOs.
When I go to Tools, Templates and Add-Ins.. to add macro that these
users need; I can add the macro just fine and I see the new button up
on the toolbar. However, If they were to close Word the macro is no
longer loaded automatically. They need to manually go back to Tools
and Templates and add a check mark next to the macro. Is there a way
to have Word remember this setting or maybe load this macro directly
via group policy?

Thanks.

Your terminology is a bit off... you can't "add a macro" through that
dialog, you can only add templates (or add-ins, which often are .dot files)
that may contain macros.

Assuming you have stored your macro and its toolbar button in a template
(.dot file), simply save that template in Word's Startup folder. That makes
the template "global" so it will automatically load when Word starts. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/WhatTemplatesStore.htm for
background.