Hello,

I have a custom ribbon, for a dotm word template, and I am having a problem with a series of <toggleButton.../> embedded in a group.

When I create a new document (1) based on my dotm, the series of <toggleButton.../> work fine, but as long as I don't open, on top of this first current document, an old document (2) also based on the same template. When closing this second document, the series of <toggleButton.../> from the first document, no longer works and crashes Word!

Does anyone have any suggestions for me?

Best Regards,


David

I would need to do some testing on your template because I don't have much experience with custom toggle buttons in a ribbon.

Perhaps the solution is to create a Class Module and use the WindowActivate event to refresh the ribbon as you change active documents.
See Writing application event procedures for working with Class Modules.

If you can't find a solution with the ribbon refresh suggestion, the bible for all things Ribbon is a book called RibbonX: Customizing the Office 2007 Ribbon by Teresa Hennig, Robert Martin, Ken Puls. It is the next place I would look to see what they have to say about toggleButtons.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

Thank you so much Guessed, that's very nice of you!

I'll see if it could be from what you indicate, if not also see if I can't find something in the RibbonX book.

If I have the solution I will indicate it after the post.

Have a nice day,
David

PS: however I have the impression that it comes from the ribbon object, as if the 2, 3... documents opened on the same workstation, shared only one instance instead of having each one its own.

... just for the record, I just checked something: the error is only caused when the opened documents have the same basic template (.dotm) used when they were created. If it's not the case, everything works fine. I will ask the user to close the opened document, if the second document he wants to open has the same basic template.

Almost correct. It is actually the DocumentChange event that needs to be handled.

If you have a custom ribbon tab that includes toggle buttons, uses GetEnabled or GetVisible callbacks, or supplies document specific functionality then handling the DocumentChange event is imperative.

After recoding my button group (only one selected TB at a time), plus adding a variable and managing it to indicate the selected TB of the current document (ActiveDocument.Variables.Add Name:="TBx" & ActiveDocument.Name, Value:="BT1 or....") and activeDocument.Variables("TBx" & ActiveDocument.Name).Value = "BT1 or...", everything seems to be working fine for the open documents.

While waiting to optimize better the code, I use this solution.

Good luck to you and thanks again for your help!
David