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date: 14 Nov 2005 10:29:49 -0800,
group: microsoft.public.word.vba.customization
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Re: Intercept Macro-Record Dialog
I haven't tried it, but my idea would be to have an AutoExec macro switch
the customization context to your template. I don't know how sticky this
setting is, but believe it stays set until something else changes it or you
restart Word. This would _not_ keep the person from saving to normal.dot,
but would change the default, if it works.
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Charles Kenyon
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"Winfried Rabenstein" wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I would like to limit the macro functionality of Word 2003 in such a
> way that users can save their macros only to a particular template,
> different from normal.dot. Two ways come to my mind, either modify the
> Macro-Record Dialog so that the "normal.dot" template is not shown, or
> (better) not show such a dialog at all but directly record to the
> specified template. However, both solutions seem to be impossible as
> one cannot access the record macro functionality from within a macro.
> Does anyone have an idea???
>
> Thanks,
> Winfried
>
date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 14:50:24 -0600
author: Charles Kenyon
Re: Intercept Macro-Record Dialog
Be very wary of the CustomizationContext setting. There is a sequence of
events involving it that irretrievably corrupts the current template.
"Charles Kenyon" wrote in
message news:uiP8fBW6FHA.1248@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>I haven't tried it, but my idea would be to have an AutoExec macro switch
>the customization context to your template. I don't know how sticky this
>setting is, but believe it stays set until something else changes it or you
>restart Word. This would _not_ keep the person from saving to normal.dot,
>but would change the default, if it works.
> --
> Charles Kenyon
>
> Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word
>
> Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
> Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide
>
> See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
> --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------
> This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies
> and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn
> from my ignorance and your wisdom.
>
> "Winfried Rabenstein" wrote in message
> news:1131992989.083228.240950@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
>> Hi,
>> I would like to limit the macro functionality of Word 2003 in such a
>> way that users can save their macros only to a particular template,
>> different from normal.dot. Two ways come to my mind, either modify the
>> Macro-Record Dialog so that the "normal.dot" template is not shown, or
>> (better) not show such a dialog at all but directly record to the
>> specified template. However, both solutions seem to be impossible as
>> one cannot access the record macro functionality from within a macro.
>> Does anyone have an idea???
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Winfried
>>
>
>
date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 09:35:21 +1100
author: Jezebel
Re: Intercept Macro-Record Dialog
Tony Jollans schrieb:
> Hi Winfried,
>
> Your options when recording a macro are:
>
> (a) Normal Template
> (b) ActiveDocument
> (c) ActiveDocument's Template (if different from Normal)
>
> You can't record directly to a global template so what exactly are you
> looking to do?
>
> --
> Enjoy,
> Tony
>
Hi Tony,
thanks for stating this so clearly, I thought I understood this, but
was not 100% sure. The thing with the context change discussed here
appears too dangerous for me, and does not really solve my problem.
We change from WordPerfect 6.1 (!!! 10 years old) to Word, and I am
somewhat frustrated to see that what is easy to realize in WP in
different ways does not seem to be possible in Word.
We have a lot of users running a certain Word application (call it
"App") based on a particular template (AppTemplate, limiting largely
the formatting possibilities and containing functionality / macros).
This template is regularly updated , i.e. the users must absoultely not
save macros on this template (would be lost during update). However, I
do not like the users to save macros (which are only relevant for App)
on the general normal.dot, either. In fact, I don't even want the users
to be able to play macros from normal.dot, as this could corrupt the
documents created with App. I found a way to list macros from another
template (e.g. add-in), so I could limit users to run only these
macros, but I don't find a way to record them there.
Whereas in WordPerfect, you can save macros as separate files on the
disk, or you could use different standard templates (corresponding to
normal.dot) for different program sessions and save the macros there,
in Word there seems to be no way. :(
Regards,
Winfried
date: 15 Nov 2005 23:53:54 -0800
author: Winfried Rabenstein
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