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I would be grateful for a definitive answer on how to back up the customized keyboard shortcuts I assigned to my macros in Word 2007. Are they stored in the Normal template, as some information on the Internet suggests? I also downloaded the tool recommended on a couple of sites, created by someone named Chris, but the format of the file was unrecognizable and a warning message that it wasn't safe dissuaded me from pursuing that method further.

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Keyboard shortcuts can be stored in any document or template. Chances are that the default location is the normal template.

Keyboard shortcuts that activate macros should be stored in the file that contains the macros. The same is true of QAT modifications.

See Chris Woodman's Keyboard Shortcut Organizer and Modifying the QAT in Microsoft Word. The version of the shortcut organizer from Chris' old page's archive is a zip file needing to be decompressed. Once that is done, it would be a .dot file and your system may not be set to recognize that. Also, it will not work with 64-bit versions of Office AFAIK. That is the only tool I know for copying/moving keyboard shortcuts. Without it, you will have to recreate them.
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To get my version with the ribbon interface, go to the bottom of the link above where it gives the version number or click on the screenshot shown above (on the linked page). AFAIK, the ribbon version also will not work on 64-bit versions of Office, since it is the same code with the different interface. I use this on my computer with Word 2013 and 2016 (32-bit versions).

In Word 2007 and later, both the original and the modified version require that the Trust Center Settings be set to trust access to the vba project. This is not a default setting. You may want to only check it when you want to use this Add-In and otherwise leave it unchecked.

I recommend storing macros and other customizations in a separate Global Template. It makes backing them up and sharing them much easier.

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Old 03-21-2017, 09:18 AM
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Charles, your reply and links contain a wealth of information about templates and certainly warrant the time it will take to study them. Thank you very much.


For now, could you help me with an immediate recurring problem I'm having with protecting my macros and the shortcuts? Some background is necessary, and I apologize for the length:


Some of the macros I must use (not commercial ones with guarantees) cause Word to crash. (I just learned from their creator that this is prone to happening in a document with tracked changes, or at least, ones like mine that have many t/c.) When I reopen the program, I am prompted to indicate if I want a particular template – which, so I’m always informed, had changes made to it -- to load. I know from hard experience that the correct answer is always yes. Otherwise, my free macros are all gone, or at least the shortcuts are. The prompt is *not* for the Normal or even Normal.New template (which, I think, was created after one of the crashes or after I added new macros), but another one that holds a commercial suite; it has only two features I use, but they are useful to me, so I’d like them and my free macros and shortcuts all to be available.


After one of the crashes last night, the macros (or shortcuts) were gone. I followed instructions for attaching one of the templates (can’t remember which) to one of my documents and got everything back, but the same procedure did not work on another document. I also tried creating new documents from each of the above-mentioned templates to see if my free macros would appear. Finally I gave up and manually added them and the shortcuts back. None of the commercial macros were affected.


I have 3 questions for Word 2007:

1) Since I must continue using my macros and another crash is possible, which specific steps would you recommend taking now so I don’t have to spend hours reconstructing them again?
2) Can you tell me how to make a given template the default that all my new Word documents will be based on?
3) Must the default template be in the Startup folder or the Templates folder?

Many thanks.

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