Execute Toolbar Button Add-In   

This Brother QL550 label printer adds a button to Word's toolbar. It's also 
duplicated as an item under the Tools menu. Is there any way of activating 
this button/menu item via a macro? Recording doesn't register toolbar button 
click or menu selection.

The label printer software doesn't provide for customization.

I can't go through File | Print menu or I'll get a Brother error message 
saying that I have the wrong labels loaded. But that's wrong. However, 
clicking on the toolbar button or selecting the item in the Tools menu works 
fine.

TIA for any quidance

date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 15:31:02 -0800   author:   John Ciccone

Re: Execute Toolbar Button Add-In   

If the Add-in is a Global Template (stored in the Word Startup folder) its 
commands should be visible under Tools>Macro>Macros when you select the 
template in the Macros in pulldown.

If that is the case, then if you set a reference to the add-in under 
Tools>References in the VisualBasic Editor, you can probably use

Add-in Name.Command

in a macro.

As an example, Acrobat 6 installs an add-in named PDFMaker in the Word 
Startup folder and if you set a reference to PDFMaker in the visual basic 
editor, you can use the command

PDFMaker.ConverttoGelatoPDF

to convert a Word document to a pdf file without using the File>Print dialog 
and selecting the Adobe PDF ptinrer

-- 
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

"John Ciccone"  wrote in message 
news:595E83A5-C101-4EDC-85F1-97F2315654E3@microsoft.com...
> This Brother QL550 label printer adds a button to Word's toolbar. It's 
> also
> duplicated as an item under the Tools menu. Is there any way of activating
> this button/menu item via a macro? Recording doesn't register toolbar 
> button
> click or menu selection.
>
> The label printer software doesn't provide for customization.
>
> I can't go through File | Print menu or I'll get a Brother error message
> saying that I have the wrong labels loaded. But that's wrong. However,
> clicking on the toolbar button or selecting the item in the Tools menu 
> works
> fine.
>
> TIA for any quidance

date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 12:14:30 +0100   author:   Doug Robbins - Word MVP

Re: Execute Toolbar Button Add-In   

Thank you very much, Doug. But I'm having trouble understanding...

If I go to Tools>Macros, the 'Macros In' dropdown box shows "TemplateProject 
(Add-In PTouch)".

Selecting that gives me a list of Macros above it. I think the one I need is 
called "StartPtedit". 

If so, how would I word the command similar to your example of 
"PDFMaker.ConverttoGelatoPDF". I've tried things like "Ptedit4.StartPtedit" 
and "StartPtedit.Ptedit4", but I'm obviously lost cuz I get error msgs re: 
missing function or variable.

FWIW, the tlb seems to be stored in a Brother subdirectory.

Thanks again for any help!

Best regards,
John

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

> If the Add-in is a Global Template (stored in the Word Startup folder) its 
> commands should be visible under Tools>Macro>Macros when you select the 
> template in the Macros in pulldown.
> 
> If that is the case, then if you set a reference to the add-in under 
> Tools>References in the VisualBasic Editor, you can probably use
> 
> Add-in Name.Command
> 
> in a macro.
> 
> As an example, Acrobat 6 installs an add-in named PDFMaker in the Word 
> Startup folder and if you set a reference to PDFMaker in the visual basic 
> editor, you can use the command
> 
> PDFMaker.ConverttoGelatoPDF
> 
> to convert a Word document to a pdf file without using the File>Print dialog 
> and selecting the Adobe PDF ptinrer
> 
> -- 
> 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
> 
> "John Ciccone"  wrote in message 
> news:595E83A5-C101-4EDC-85F1-97F2315654E3@microsoft.com...
> > This Brother QL550 label printer adds a button to Word's toolbar. It's 
> > also
> > duplicated as an item under the Tools menu. Is there any way of activating
> > this button/menu item via a macro? Recording doesn't register toolbar 
> > button
> > click or menu selection.
> >
> > The label printer software doesn't provide for customization.
> >
> > I can't go through File | Print menu or I'll get a Brother error message
> > saying that I have the wrong labels loaded. But that's wrong. However,
> > clicking on the toolbar button or selecting the item in the Tools menu 
> > works
> > fine.
> >
> > TIA for any quidance 
> 
> 
>

date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 16:05:03 -0800   author:   John Ciccone