add menu item / commandbar at startup

Hi there,

I have read a lot of posts on this subject so far and have not been
able to get quite the answer I am looking for.

Basically I am trying to get a menu item to load when word starts up.
Now I have created a global template and placed it in my startup folder
and have created the relevant code under Document_New to create the
menu items / commandbar, which works fine. The problem I have is that
when you load up word for the first time the menu item doesn't appear.
You have to select new document before the menu item appears. After
which point it stays put which is what I am after.

Now I know it may sound picky but is there a way to skip this first
step, i.e. have the menu item appear when word starts?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Jezebel
Fri Aug 11 06:16:37 CDT 2006

If you have a global template, you don't need code at all. Just add the menu
item (manually) to the add-in, and it will be shown whenever the template is
loaded.



"Mike" <mikekelly21@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1155293055.188338.237370@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> Hi there,
>
> I have read a lot of posts on this subject so far and have not been
> able to get quite the answer I am looking for.
>
> Basically I am trying to get a menu item to load when word starts up.
> Now I have created a global template and placed it in my startup folder
> and have created the relevant code under Document_New to create the
> menu items / commandbar, which works fine. The problem I have is that
> when you load up word for the first time the menu item doesn't appear.
> You have to select new document before the menu item appears. After
> which point it stays put which is what I am after.
>
> Now I know it may sound picky but is there a way to skip this first
> step, i.e. have the menu item appear when word starts?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>

Mike
Fri Aug 11 07:40:53 CDT 2006

Hi Jezebel,

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, you are quite right,
that works perfectly and is far simpler than the solution i was trying
to come up with.

Many Thanks

Jezebel wrote:
> If you have a global template, you don't need code at all. Just add the menu
> item (manually) to the add-in, and it will be shown whenever the template is
> loaded.
>
>
>
> "Mike" <mikekelly21@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1155293055.188338.237370@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I have read a lot of posts on this subject so far and have not been
> > able to get quite the answer I am looking for.
> >
> > Basically I am trying to get a menu item to load when word starts up.
> > Now I have created a global template and placed it in my startup folder
> > and have created the relevant code under Document_New to create the
> > menu items / commandbar, which works fine. The problem I have is that
> > when you load up word for the first time the menu item doesn't appear.
> > You have to select new document before the menu item appears. After
> > which point it stays put which is what I am after.
> >
> > Now I know it may sound picky but is there a way to skip this first
> > step, i.e. have the menu item appear when word starts?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help.
> >