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Old 11-09-2016, 03:29 PM
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Hello everybody,



This is my first question here, so I hope someone can help me out.

For a writing job I use a .dot file from the company I'm working for. It creates a bar of buttons that I can use to speed up workflow and use the right markup for publishing. It works perfectly in Word 2011 (Mac), but I recently updated to Word 2016 (Mac). In Word 2016 the .dot file will load, but the buttons won't work anymore.
Is this a known issue? Is there any way to convert the .dot file? Or is there any other way to use the .dot in Word 2016?

Thanks in advance for your help.
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Old 11-09-2016, 05:08 PM
Charles Kenyon Charles Kenyon is offline Using old .dot in Word 2016 (Mac) Windows 8 Using old .dot in Word 2016 (Mac) Office 2013
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Look for an Add-Ins tab. If the Mac version works like the Windows version, you will find the buttons from your custom toolbars there.
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Old 11-10-2016, 01:24 AM
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Hello Charles,

thanks for your reply.
I do see the buttons under the Add-ins tab. The problem is that there are multiple drop-down buttons that won't work when I click on them. A single button (with a single action) does work.

Somehow the drop-down menu buttons won't work.
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Old 11-10-2016, 07:35 AM
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You, in the Mac world, are experiencing what many of us ran into about 10 years ago with the introduction of Word 2007.

If you still have an earlier version available, you can create new toolbars with one command per button. Then, use that.

Otherwise, it is possible to create custom tabs and to add things to the QAT. To get the flexibility of the old toolbars, though, requires XML modification (not through the Word interface). See Customize the Ribbon (It doesn't take rocket science). A useful resource is RibbonX: Customizing the Office 2007 Ribbon by Robert Martin, Ken Puls, and Teresa Hennig.

You may be able, instead, to do QAT modifications that access your macros. See Modifying the QAT in Microsoft Word. Such modifications do not include menus that are not already on a ribbon tab, but are much simpler to do than are XML modifications.
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