Creating a (shared!) file with CommandButton placing AutoText into the document

gmayor · #2 07-06-2016, 07:11 AM

Don't even think of sharing your normal template. It is a personal and single user file that is not intended to be shared.

Create a new template. Copy your macros and building blocks to it, save it as macro enabled then supply that template as an add-in. Include a ribbon to call your macros and make it even more useful.

The code to call a building block from that template would be

Code:

Application.Templates(ThisDocument.FullName).BuildingBlockEntries("Bio").Insert Where:=Selection.Range, RichText:=True

The attached should provide a clue.

Put it in the Word startup folder with Word closed - If you have not changed the preferred startup folder it can be located (in English language versions of Windows) by typing
%appdata%\Microsoft\Word\Startup
in the Windows Explorer Address bar and pressing Enter.

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