We moved from Office 2003 to 2007 recently. We've migrated our Word macros to a single Global Template and they work fine. Our wee icons now appear under the Add-ins tab and that's ok too. Unfortunately, one user had the macros still saved in her normal.dot and ended up with double icons in the ribbon. Foolishly, I tried to delete the icons but it wasn't apparant which ones were correct and which were the old ones. I thought if I deleted them and reopened Word, the Global.dot would repopulate the tab - aaargh! Wrong! Everyone else sees the icons but for this one lass. I think that I need to reset either a registry entry or a system file to force her copy of Word to reinitialise the icons but I don't know how. Because the Global.dot is shared by everyone, I'd rather not make any further changes to it. Can anyone advise, please? Many thanks Chris (Personally, I find the new system difficult to maintain - we have lost the ability to easily create and edit these toolbars. I feel that this is a bad move by Microsoft and has moved general support into a more technical sphere).
Do you still have access to Office 2003 so that you can open the Normal.dot template there and remove the toolbars from it? -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "ChrisYule" wrote in message news:57E6BC2F-1657-4035-8BA7-2B0525E11E28@microsoft.com... > We moved from Office 2003 to 2007 recently. We've migrated our Word macros > to > a single Global Template and they work fine. Our wee icons now appear > under > the Add-ins tab and that's ok too. Unfortunately, one user had the macros > still saved in her normal.dot and ended up with double icons in the > ribbon. > Foolishly, I tried to delete the icons but it wasn't apparant which ones > were correct and which were the old ones. > I thought if I deleted them and reopened Word, the Global.dot would > repopulate the tab - aaargh! Wrong! Everyone else sees the icons but for > this > one lass. > > I think that I need to reset either a registry entry or a system file to > force her copy of Word to reinitialise the icons but I don't know how. > Because the Global.dot is shared by everyone, I'd rather not make any > further > changes to it. Can anyone advise, please? > > Many thanks > Chris > > (Personally, I find the new system difficult to maintain - we have lost > the > ability to easily create and edit these toolbars. I feel that this is a > bad > move by Microsoft and has moved general support into a more technical > sphere).
I do have access to 2003 - I'll do that next. The problem is getting my shared file global.dotm to show the buttons that I accidentally deleted from one user's toolbar. Other users see the buttons but not this person. I was hoping that there was a file, a registry setting or a button I could push that would tell Word "re-initialise all toolbars and addins". In my little fantasy, Word would see global.dotm and say to itself "Ahhh - you have buttons!" and stick 'em in the Add-Ins tab. This may be unrealistic. Fingers crossed. Chris "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: > Do you still have access to Office 2003 so that you can open the Normal.dot > template there and remove the toolbars from it? > > -- > Hope this helps. > > Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my > services on a paid consulting basis. > > Doug Robbins - Word MVP
If you deleted the toolbars, that is you right-clicked the toolbar and selected "Delete Custom Command" then there is nothing to "re-initialise" -- they have been deleted. If this isn't what you did then how did you delete them? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs Guides for the Office 2007 Interface: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/HA102295841033.aspx "ChrisYule" wrote in message news:BC894AA7-18D8-4096-8AE0-43BF74614503@microsoft.com... >I do have access to 2003 - I'll do that next. The problem is getting my > shared file global.dotm to show the buttons that I accidentally deleted > from > one user's toolbar. Other users see the buttons but not this person. > > I was hoping that there was a file, a registry setting or a button I could > push that would tell Word "re-initialise all toolbars and addins". In my > little fantasy, Word would see global.dotm and say to itself "Ahhh - you > have > buttons!" and stick 'em in the Add-Ins tab. This may be unrealistic. > Fingers > crossed. > > Chris > > "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: > >> Do you still have access to Office 2003 so that you can open the >> Normal.dot >> template there and remove the toolbars from it? >> >> -- >> Hope this helps. >> >> Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my >> services on a paid consulting basis. >> >> Doug Robbins - Word MVP >
