Clint
Mon May 09 15:31:07 CDT 2005
Thanks everyone. I think I got an idea how to do this differently.
"Dawn Crosier" wrote:
> Clint -
>
> In addition to what Charles pointed out, check your references in your
> template. I suspect that you will find a MISSING Reference to an Object
> Library. When you added the control, Word probably changed your library
> references. You may be able to step down to a lower version of the same
> library. When working with templates which are going to be run on two or
> more different versions of Word, always DEVELOP in the lowest version and
> TEST in all the remaining versions. That way you can tweak your code if
> necessary. The lowest version of Word does not *know* about the newer
> versions, but the newer versions do.
>
> Good Luck.
>
> --
> Dawn Crosier
> Microsoft MVP
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> "Charles Kenyon" <msnewsgroup@remove.no.spam.addbalance.com> wrote in
> message news:urn1y6LVFHA.1796@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> > 1) Don't add ActiveX buttons that you don't need. Put controls for the
> > document in custom toolbars and their buttons unless you absolutely need
> > something you can only get with a control in the document itself.
> >
> > 2) Yes. Documents remain attached to their templates unless you change
> > this or the template can't be found. If you put something in the code of
> > your template (i.e. in an AutoOpen macro) that references your button,
> > that macro will be trying to run in your legacy documents that don't have
> > the button.
> > --
> > 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://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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> > from my ignorance and your wisdom.
> >
> > "Clint" <Clint@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:6FEC3489-F01E-49F5-8919-67906CF786BD@microsoft.com...
> >>I had a template which was created with Word 2000 and now we have Word
> >>2003.
> >> Everything was working fine until I wanted to add a new button to the
> >> template. Now any document that was created with the 2000 version
> >> template
> >> errors when it's opened in Word 2003 because it see's the code for the
> >> new
> >> button I created but it doesn't see the button. This must be something
> >> new
> >> with Word 2003 where it stays connected to the template and any new code
> >> that
> >> is added to then template is added to an existing document.
> >>
> >> Does anyone have any ideas??
> >
> >
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