Your guess is correct! I do have Acrobat 7 installed. I have solved the
problem, though. I looked in the BOOK (!) that came with Word2, and it
said that one must finish by the SaveAll command. That did the trick,
both for macros and the customizing of the toolbar.
Charles Kenyon (***@remove.no.spam.addbalance.com) wrote:
: My guess, the losing computer has Adobe Acrobat 7 installed. This prevents
: the saving of changes to normal.dot. You can save your macros and toolbars
: in a separate global template. See
: http://addbalance.com/word/movetotemplate.htm for step-by-step instructions
: on moving / sharing / copying / backing-up customizations including
: AutoText, AutoCorrect, keyboard assignments, toolbars, macros, etc.
:
: Alternatively, you can follow the directions at the end of Graham Mayor's
: page http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adobe_acrobat_toolbar.htm.
: --
:
: Charles Kenyon
:
: Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word
:
: Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
: Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide
:
: See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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:
: "Edgar A Pearlstein" <***@unlserve.unl.edu> wrote in message
: news:d6t8kc$5jj$***@unlnews.unl.edu...
: > I have two computers running Word2003 with XP_Pro.
: > On one of them I can create a macro and keep it OK. But on the other, I
: > can
: > create the macro successfully, but when I leave Word and re-enter, the
: > macro
: > is gone.
: >
: > (The same happens when I customize the toolbar.)
: >
: > I can't find any obvious difference in the way the two computers are set
: > up.
:
: