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Over the years I have created a custom toolbar named "Bob" with my favorite
icons on it. Since I have recently bought a new computer, I have a new instalation of Office 2003 on it. At present, Word comes up with the task bar showing and no toolbar at all. I would like for it to default to no task bar and to show my custom toolbar. I know how to get that view within a particular session, but it defaults back to the other when I close and reopen Word. How can I make the changes last through closing and reopening Word? Thanks. |
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Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:51:49 GMT from Bob S :
Over the years I have created a custom toolbar named "Bob" with my favorite icons on it. Since I have recently bought a new computer, I have a new instalation of Office 2003 on it. At present, Word comes up with the task bar showing and no toolbar at all. I would like for it to default to no task bar and to show my custom toolbar. I know how to get that view within a particular session, but it defaults back to the other when I close and reopen Word. How can I make the changes last through closing and reopening Word? Most Word users tend to put customizations in the Normal template. As you've discovered, that makes it very hard to transfer them to another computer or to preserve them when upgrading Word. A better way is to store customizations in a special-purpose template in your startup folder. Charles Kenyon has an excellent page on how to do that: http://addbalance.com/word/movetotemplate.htm I think you'll need to do your customizations from scratch on your new computer. However, if you follow Kenyon's suggestions at the above URL, the task will be simple and easy next time you move to a new computer or upgrade Word. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ "If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to: it's been my life work." -- Marie Dressler, in /Dinner at Eight/ |
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On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:51:49 GMT, "Bob S" wrote:
Over the years I have created a custom toolbar named "Bob" with my favorite icons on it. Since I have recently bought a new computer, I have a new instalation of Office 2003 on it. At present, Word comes up with the task bar showing and no toolbar at all. I would like for it to default to no task bar and to show my custom toolbar. I know how to get that view within a particular session, but it defaults back to the other when I close and reopen Word. How can I make the changes last through closing and reopening Word? Thanks. Hi Bob, Store the toolbar in a global template (that is, one saved in the folder listed as Startup in Tools Options File Locations). That will make the toolbar appear in all documents. See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...latesStore.htm for help with this. If you aren't seeing even the standard and formatting toolbars, that's a different problem. See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErr...ngMenusEtc.htm. To suppress the task pane, it should be -- but often isn't -- enough to uncheck "Startup task pane" in Tools Options View. If it isn't working for you, get the Task Pane Controller from http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...owTaskPane.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Thanks Jay. That solved the issue with the Task Pane.
The toolbar issue is a little more complex to explain, but I suspect you will find easy to fix. In the past I have created a custom toolbar named "Bob" which I have placed in a global template which I have in the folder listed as Startup in Tools Options File Locations. I do not see it when I startup Word. I do, however, see it when I click Vies Toolbars. Actually, I see two toolbars named "Bob" which I suspect means that I have it both in my Normal template and my Global template. Here is what happens. If I check the first "Bob" toolbar and restart Word, Word comes up with no toolbars. If I check the second "Bob" toolbar and restart Word, Word comes up with both toolbars visible and checked. I definitely would prefer that one (and only one) of the toolbars show up automatically. And (for the transfer capability you and Stan both recommended) I think I would want that toolbar to be in my global template, not in my normal template. Could you tell me how to do that? Thanks. Bob "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:51:49 GMT, "Bob S" wrote: Over the years I have created a custom toolbar named "Bob" with my favorite icons on it. Since I have recently bought a new computer, I have a new instalation of Office 2003 on it. At present, Word comes up with the task bar showing and no toolbar at all. I would like for it to default to no task bar and to show my custom toolbar. I know how to get that view within a particular session, but it defaults back to the other when I close and reopen Word. How can I make the changes last through closing and reopening Word? Thanks. Hi Bob, Store the toolbar in a global template (that is, one saved in the folder listed as Startup in Tools Options File Locations). That will make the toolbar appear in all documents. See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...latesStore.htm for help with this. If you aren't seeing even the standard and formatting toolbars, that's a different problem. See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErr...ngMenusEtc.htm. To suppress the task pane, it should be -- but often isn't -- enough to uncheck "Startup task pane" in Tools Options View. If it isn't working for you, get the Task Pane Controller from http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...owTaskPane.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Hi Bob,
To remove the extra toolbar from Normal.dot, follow these steps: - Shut down Word. Using Windows Explorer, temporarily move the global template out of the Startup folder to somewhere else (this prevents confusion between the two same-named toolbars). Restart Word. - Open the Tools Customize dialog and click the Toolbars tab. - Select the toolbar's name, which will be at or near the bottom of the list. (Since you haven't loaded the global template, this copy of the toolbar must be the one in Normal.dot.) - Click the Delete button, and ok the confirmation dialog. OK the Customize dialog. - Close Word. You should be prompted to save changes in Normal.dot; say yes. - Move the global template back into the Startup folder and restart Word. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 04:12:06 GMT, "Bob S" wrote: Thanks Jay. That solved the issue with the Task Pane. The toolbar issue is a little more complex to explain, but I suspect you will find easy to fix. In the past I have created a custom toolbar named "Bob" which I have placed in a global template which I have in the folder listed as Startup in Tools Options File Locations. I do not see it when I startup Word. I do, however, see it when I click Vies Toolbars. Actually, I see two toolbars named "Bob" which I suspect means that I have it both in my Normal template and my Global template. Here is what happens. If I check the first "Bob" toolbar and restart Word, Word comes up with no toolbars. If I check the second "Bob" toolbar and restart Word, Word comes up with both toolbars visible and checked. I definitely would prefer that one (and only one) of the toolbars show up automatically. And (for the transfer capability you and Stan both recommended) I think I would want that toolbar to be in my global template, not in my normal template. Could you tell me how to do that? Thanks. Bob "Jay Freedman" wrote in message .. . On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:51:49 GMT, "Bob S" wrote: Over the years I have created a custom toolbar named "Bob" with my favorite icons on it. Since I have recently bought a new computer, I have a new instalation of Office 2003 on it. At present, Word comes up with the task bar showing and no toolbar at all. I would like for it to default to no task bar and to show my custom toolbar. I know how to get that view within a particular session, but it defaults back to the other when I close and reopen Word. How can I make the changes last through closing and reopening Word? Thanks. Hi Bob, Store the toolbar in a global template (that is, one saved in the folder listed as Startup in Tools Options File Locations). That will make the toolbar appear in all documents. See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...latesStore.htm for help with this. If you aren't seeing even the standard and formatting toolbars, that's a different problem. See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErr...ngMenusEtc.htm. To suppress the task pane, it should be -- but often isn't -- enough to uncheck "Startup task pane" in Tools Options View. If it isn't working for you, get the Task Pane Controller from http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...owTaskPane.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Hi Jay,
That did it. Thanks. Bob "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... Hi Bob, To remove the extra toolbar from Normal.dot, follow these steps: - Shut down Word. Using Windows Explorer, temporarily move the global template out of the Startup folder to somewhere else (this prevents confusion between the two same-named toolbars). Restart Word. - Open the Tools Customize dialog and click the Toolbars tab. - Select the toolbar's name, which will be at or near the bottom of the list. (Since you haven't loaded the global template, this copy of the toolbar must be the one in Normal.dot.) - Click the Delete button, and ok the confirmation dialog. OK the Customize dialog. - Close Word. You should be prompted to save changes in Normal.dot; say yes. - Move the global template back into the Startup folder and restart Word. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 04:12:06 GMT, "Bob S" wrote: Thanks Jay. That solved the issue with the Task Pane. The toolbar issue is a little more complex to explain, but I suspect you will find easy to fix. In the past I have created a custom toolbar named "Bob" which I have placed in a global template which I have in the folder listed as Startup in Tools Options File Locations. I do not see it when I startup Word. I do, however, see it when I click Vies Toolbars. Actually, I see two toolbars named "Bob" which I suspect means that I have it both in my Normal template and my Global template. Here is what happens. If I check the first "Bob" toolbar and restart Word, Word comes up with no toolbars. If I check the second "Bob" toolbar and restart Word, Word comes up with both toolbars visible and checked. I definitely would prefer that one (and only one) of the toolbars show up automatically. And (for the transfer capability you and Stan both recommended) I think I would want that toolbar to be in my global template, not in my normal template. Could you tell me how to do that? Thanks. Bob "Jay Freedman" wrote in message . .. On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:51:49 GMT, "Bob S" wrote: Over the years I have created a custom toolbar named "Bob" with my favorite icons on it. Since I have recently bought a new computer, I have a new instalation of Office 2003 on it. At present, Word comes up with the task bar showing and no toolbar at all. I would like for it to default to no task bar and to show my custom toolbar. I know how to get that view within a particular session, but it defaults back to the other when I close and reopen Word. How can I make the changes last through closing and reopening Word? Thanks. Hi Bob, Store the toolbar in a global template (that is, one saved in the folder listed as Startup in Tools Options File Locations). That will make the toolbar appear in all documents. See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...latesStore.htm for help with this. If you aren't seeing even the standard and formatting toolbars, that's a different problem. See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErr...ngMenusEtc.htm. To suppress the task pane, it should be -- but often isn't -- enough to uncheck "Startup task pane" in Tools Options View. If it isn't working for you, get the Task Pane Controller from http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...owTaskPane.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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