Word 2003 toolbars

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David French

I have been having a friendly fight with Word 2003 since I started using it.
I change the toolbars to the ones ** I ** want and the next time I open Word
I find the toolbars ** Word ** wants to have.
How am I to keep the toolbars from the 'mind-of-their-own' syndrome?

Dave French
 
David said:
I have been having a friendly fight with Word 2003 since I started
using it. I change the toolbars to the ones ** I ** want and the next
time I open Word I find the toolbars ** Word ** wants to have.
How am I to keep the toolbars from the 'mind-of-their-own' syndrome?

Dave French
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To a large extent what you save in normal.dot is what you get, but there are
others that seem to have a mind of their own - eg the reviewing toolbar.
These are best controlled by auto macros

eg from my own system:

Sub Autonew()
ActiveWindow.ActivePane.DisplayRulers = True
With ActiveWindow.View
.Type = wdPrintView
.Zoom.Percentage = 100
.FieldShading = wdFieldShadingWhenSelected
.DisplayPageBoundaries = True
End With
CommandBars("Reviewing").Visible = False
End Sub

Sub AutoOpen()
ActiveWindow.Caption = ActiveDocument.FullName
ActiveWindow.ActivePane.DisplayRulers = True
With ActiveWindow.View
.Type = wdPrintView
.Zoom.Percentage = 100
.FieldShading = wdFieldShadingWhenSelected
.DisplayPageBoundaries = True
End With
CommandBars("Reviewing").Visible = False
End Sub

See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word
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A better idea is to create your own Template, and save the
toolbars and *your* styles there.

I have done this for several clients, and it drastically
improves the usability - and ease of use - of Word. As a
case in point, we use custom headings, paragraphs, and
other document elements. With my toolbars, the user
simply clicks the appropriate icon to apply the required
style.

Larry Randall
Certified Word Expert
 
I think you'll find with Word 2003 that it is the in-built toolbars that are
the problem here.

You may be able to put personal toolbars in a global template, and make them
available to all documents, but you cannot do so with styles. They can only
go in the document, its template or in the default template normal.dot.

The best way to handle styles is to have them available in the document
templates to which they apply.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word
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Thank you for your reply Graham.
I find it so hard to believe that even Microsoft in their infinite wisdom
would allow a program so widely used as Word to have toolbars that have a
mind of their own.
But then again, if I had Gate's money...

So what you're saying is I need to change the toolbars and then save the
change to Normal.dot?

Dave French
 
It is all to do with the program being 'helpful' by putting up toolbars
associated with different tasks. Unfortunately your idea of helpful and
Microsoft's may not always coincide. Toolbar positions are saved in
templates or documents. For the awkward squad, you can force your own
preferences using the macro code listed in my earlier post saved in
normal.dot. That code featured the reviewing bar which is a particular
nuisance, but others can be handled in a similar way. Which bars are causing
you trouble?

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Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word
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It is the E-mail toolbar that ends up as a 'default' toolbar and the
Formatting toolbar that I WANT is not there.
Now I've only used 2003 for about 1-2 months but I have seen this behavior
one too many times for it to be a coincidence!

Dave
MOUS Word 97 Certified
(Remember the good 'ol days Graham?!?)
 
The command line for the e-mail toolbar is

ActiveWindow.EnvelopeVisible = False

The e-mail toolbar is a toggle on the file > send to mail recipient and
should adopt the last used setting.

For the formatting bar it is

CommandBars("Formatting").Visible = True

I have never know this one to disappear.

Add these lines into the auto macros to force the required conditions. I
take it you have set the standard and formatting toolbars to use two lines -
tools > customize > options?


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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word
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Yes, I have set the Standard and Formatting toolbars to use 2 lines.
Just another of Microsoft's 'Better Ideas'.
I am my company's Systems Trainer for computer programs. When it comes to
teaching any MS Office product that is just about the first thing I show
them how to change on their computer. If I'm looking for an icon on a
toolbar, I don't want to have to go searching for it...I want it to just BE
there!

For whatever reason now the toolbars appear to be behaving themselves.
Perhaps they have become so intuitive that they sensed the conversations we
are having and realized that they were going to be facing serious injury
should they continue this unruly behavior!?!
Ok perhaps i'm going a BIT too far but, HEY ya gotta laugh about these
things!

Thank you for your insight on the matter an I hope to talk to you again
sometime.

Dave French
 
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