The XML Ribbon mods and supporting macros are not going to be that huge.


If you want someone to help with this, please do not expect them to reproduce your custom template so they can guess what is wrong with what you are doing. I do not know the answer to your question without fiddling. I am willing to try that, but do not want to start from scratch. I am going to look again at my WordArt add-in. Perhaps I can tell from that.