Custom toolbars (as in Word 2003 and earlier)?

[cyraxote]

I have an old laptop that I'm keeping around only because Word 2003 is installed on it, and I occasionally use it to create custom toolbars for use in .dot files.



Is there any other way to do this? I know that the toolbars are generated (?) with XML in Word 2007+, and that it's not a simple process. Is software available that essentially duplicates Word's old ability to create custom icons and toolbars and to assign commands or macros to them? I don't mean that it needs to do this only for .dot files; I'd be perfectly happy with a way to do it for .dotx files.

Thanks in advance for any information or insight that anyone may have.

[gmayor]

Word 2010 and later have a rudimentary ribbon editor built-in for editing your personal template, but for anything more adventurous, including editing document or template ribbons you need to dig a bit deeper.
See http://gregmaxey.com/word_tip_pages/...bbon_main.html

[cyraxote]

That still seems highly complicated. The only thing I could find was this:

http://www.addintools.com/english/customize_ribbon/

It appears to be limited to Word 2007, which is just another dead end.

[gmayor]

It's just another skill to learn and not as difficult as it looks.