I Forgot How to Copy "My Toolbar" from a Desktop to a Laptop

[skeezix]

I'm using Word 2000 on my desktop computer. All of my documents have a "My Toolbar" in them. It appears on the left side of the document's window. That toolbar has a lot of things that I use daily. When I open one of those documents and click Tools > Customize > Toolbars, I see My Toolbar at the bottom of the list.




So I just installed Word 2000 on my Windows 7 laptop and copied a few Word documents to it. When I open one of those documents and click Tools > Customize > Toolbars, I see that My Toolbar is not listed, and it is not displayed in the document's window.


How do I copy My Toolbar from the desktop to the laptop so that it appears in the toolbar list and also in the document's window?

[Charles Kenyon]

That is not something that comes with Word. It is a customization, likely stored in your normal.dot file or a template stored in your Word Startup Folder.

• How to customize a toolbar or menu
• Where is the Normal Template / How to Find the Normal Template
• Startup Folder

[Stefan Blom]

For older versions of Word, up to and including Word 2003, copying the Normal template to your new installation should suffice. Or you may need to copy an add-in (*.dot) to the Startup folder.

If the new installation is a newer version of Office, it may or may not work as expected.

[skeezix]

I tried copying the normal.dot file from the desktop to the laptop but couldn't get it to replace the Normal.dot that was on the laptop.


After mucking around with the laptop I finally was able to replace its Normal.dot with the copy from my desktop, but I couldn't recall what the final steps I took to do that.


Comes with age.


Thank you for helping me out!

[Stefan Blom]

If you want to replace Normal.dot with a different version, Word must be closed as you do that.

Keep in mind that you shouldn't try and replace Normal with a different template simply renamed as "Normal"; it must be an original Normal template, created by Word and customized by you or by someone else.

[skeezix]

Hi Stefan,


I can't recall if Word 2000 on the laptop was closed before I copied normal.dot to the laptop. Could be that it wasn't when I first tried.

[kilroyscarnival]

There's an Import/Export on the Customize the Ribbon part under File > Options, but that would bring you the program-specific settings like your QAT, not document-specific ones, as far as I can tell.


Moderator's note. This is for a different (Ribbon) version of Word.

[Stefan Blom]

Hi Stefan,

I can't recall if Word 2000 on the laptop was closed before I copied normal.dot to the laptop. Could be that it wasn't when I first tried.

You can always try again. I haven't experimented with this recently. Maybe Microsoft has made it more difficult to "re-use" the classical toolbars interface, even via a customized Normal template or an add-in.