Office 2007 Quick Launch Toolbar customization

Hi,

I would like to add some buttons pointing to my macros to the Word
2007 Quick Launch Toolbar on multiple PCs. I already have a script
that copies Normal.dotm (containing macros) to all workstations upon
logon.

Is there a way to script or automate in any way addition of custom
buttons to the toolbar? How does Word store the information about
custom buttons? Is it somewhere in the registry, or a config file?

It would be great if someone can shed some light on those questions.
Regards,
F.

Hi Flynth,

The basic Quick Access Toolbar contents for Word 2007 are stored for each user in a file named Word.QAT and those don't roam.
They're editable XML files so you could replace those of individual users, which would lose any customizations they may have used to
make their work easier, or merge their changes into a replacement file, a little trickier, but still something you could script.

However, since you're already sending out a template, you can also store Template/Document specific QAT content within the
document/template.

[Note that using Normal.dotm rather than a separate global template isn't always advised, as Normal.dotm is generally designed to
be specific for each user.]

To add a QAT section to a document or tamplate, in Word you can go to the QAT Customization (Alt, F, I, C) and above the right hand
column you can choose the name of the file you want your button in and then add your macro with custom button from the QAT
customization 'Modify' button using one of the 216 custom buttons then save the template to the trusted/global template location.

When you restart Word when that template is attached (Alt, T, I)
your template specific QAT items should appear on the right hand end of the QAT.

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"Flynth" wrote in message ...
Hi,

I would like to add some buttons pointing to my macros to the Word
2007 Quick Launch Toolbar on multiple PCs. I already have a script
that copies Normal.dotm (containing macros) to all workstations upon
logon.

Is there a way to script or automate in any way addition of custom
buttons to the toolbar? How does Word store the information about
custom buttons? Is it somewhere in the registry, or a config file?

It would be great if someone can shed some light on those questions.
Regards,
F.
--

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Hi,

Thanks a lot. This solution saved me a lot of time, I've added
Word.QAT to my copy script and it works great.

Regards,
F.

On 15 Feb, 11:11, "Bob Buckland ?:-\)" 75214.226(At Beautiful
Downtown)compuserve.com wrote:
Hi Flynth,

The basic Quick Access Toolbar contents for Word 2007 are stored for each user in a file named Word.QAT and those don't roam.
They're editable XML files so you could replace those of individual users, which would lose any customizations they may have used to
make their work easier, or merge their changes into a replacement file, a little trickier, but still something you could script.

However, since you're already sending out a template, you can also store Template/Document specific QAT content within the
document/template.

*[Note that using Normal.dotm rather than a separate global template isn't always advised, as Normal.dotm is generally designed to
be specific for each user.]

To add a QAT section to a document or tamplate, in Word you can go to the QAT Customization (Alt, F, I, C) and above the right hand
column you can choose the name of the file you want your button in and then add your macro with custom button from the QAT
customization 'Modify' button using one of the 216 custom buttons then save the template to the trusted/global template location.

When you restart Word when that template is attached (Alt, T, I)
your template specific QAT items should appear on the right hand end of the QAT.

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* "Flynth" wrote in ...
Hi,

I would like *to add some buttons pointing to my macros to the Word
2007 Quick Launch Toolbar on multiple PCs. I already have a script
that copies Normal.dotm (containing macros) to all workstations upon
logon.

Is there a way to script or automate in any way addition of custom
buttons to the toolbar? How does Word store the information about
custom buttons? Is it somewhere in the registry, or a config file?

It would be great if someone can shed some light on those questions.
Regards,
F.
--

Bob *Buckland *?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

* *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*