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I had an interesting experience some time ago that may help others avoid this situation.

I have a Samsung laptop that I had considered a bad buy. Although an i7, startup was horrendously slow but it was a useful machine for testing things. Eventually the hard disk died so I decided to put an SSD in. I was able to install Windows without being forced to enter a key. I may have opted to enter that later, I’m not sure.

It was an OEM licence that I had upgraded free to Windows 10 and before I started the rebuild, I contacted Samsung who told me they could not give me the key as the hard disk had been changed. I always thought you were allowed to change a number of components and argued that point but Samsung would not budge.

I expected to get nagged for a key but didn’t and after a few days I got curious. Delving into settings I found the machine was licensed through a digital license attached to my Microsoft account. It seems that if you have a licence linked to that, it carries through.

Hopefully this may help someone else. It’s worth registering for that alone.

 

After uninstalling Office several times with heavyweight uninstallers to no avail, I eventually found the answer is that Outlook adds the name of the account that is the default when the address book content is imported. Why it has to add the name of an account to something that can be used by any account is beyond me.

Susan

I travel from the UK to the US once a year and on the advice of my phone retailer I put the phone in airplane mode and then enable wireless connections. That stops the phone connecting to any US provider and incurring high costs. I don’t have to disable any feeds as they just get downloaded when I use wifi at my hotel or a coffee shop.

For phone calls, my UK landline provider has an app that works with wifi and charges calls as if I were at home. That means I can phone family at UK rates and as I have an all inclusive package, that costs nothing.

In your case you have Dad to consider. If you might need to receive emergency calls then, as you suggest, buy a local basic phone that is for calls only. In the UK you can get them from under $10 plus a card from $15. Call costs will be high but this is for emergencies only. Bring an old phone with you and see if it will work wherever you go, then you can be the card only.

The downside is no GPS while on the move.

If your visit is UK, Carphone Warehouse and Phones4U sell unlocked phones.

Thanks Charles but with the change I posted above, everything is working fine with both global templates running, even with identical module and macro names in both templates. The trick is the code calling the buttons has to be in a macro with a unique name in each template and the buttons’ OnAction property (if that is the right word) has to have the same name.

OK. In the second template Public Sub OnActionButton needs to be Public Sub OnActionButton2 (or at least have some differentation).

Andrew

Thank you and apologies for my slow response.

Prior to you coming back, I edited the supplied code as below and that seems to work.

Sub OnActionDropDown(control As IRibbonControl, _
selectedId As String, _
selectedIndex As Integer)

Select Case selectedId
Case “ddcBorderColourItem0”
MsgBox “You must select a colour.”, vbOKOnly
Case “ddcBorderColourItem1”
Call TableBordersGrey
Case “ddcBorderColourItem2”
Call TableBordersBlue
Case “ddcBorderColourItem3”
Call TableBordersNone
Case “ddcShadingColourItem0”
MsgBox “You must select a colour.”, vbOKOnly
Case “ddcShadingColourItem1”
Call ShadingGrey
Case “ddcShadingColourItem2”
Call ShadingBlue
Case “ddcShadingColourItem3”
Call ShadingYellow
Case “ddcShadingColourItem4”
Call ShadingNone
Case Else
MsgBox “The selected ItemID of DropDown-Control “”” & control.id & “”” is : “”” & selectedId & “””” & vbCrLf & _
“Die selektierte ItemID des DropDown-Control “”” & control.id & “”” ist : “”” & selectedId & “”””, _
vbInformation
End Select

End Sub

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Since then my problem has changed. If I put code for buttons as below into one global template it works fine.

Public Sub OnActionButton(control As IRibbonControl)
‘Callback in XML File “onAction”

‘ Callback for event button click
‘ Callback für Button Click

Select Case control.id
Case “btn1”
Call ChangeStyles.ShowChangeStyles
Case “btn2”
Call InsertDates.InsertAbbDate
Case “btn3”
Call InsertDates.InsertFullDate
Case “btn4”
Call Remove.RemoveSectionBreaks
Case Else
MsgBox “Button “”” & control.id & “”” clicked” & vbCrLf & _
“Es wurde auf Button “”” & control.id & “”” in Ribbon geklickt”, _
vbInformation
End Select
End Sub

If I put similar code (same button names, different module and macro names) into a second global template, that too will work if it is the only global template. If I put both global templates into Word > Startup, one works and the other gives me the message above. It tells me the name of the button that has been clicked and not found a macro. It can find the macro if it is the only global template but not if there is another.

The code is held in a module name basCallbacks which the name given by Ribbon Creator 2010. I don’t know enough to know if the module can be given a different name or whether Ribbon Creator relies on that name.

Andrew

I don’t doubt there are more lines of code than needed but the macros do work nicely. The users love them.

Yes I should have gone for percentages but simply applying column widths but no table width does work. When the macro runs it specifies the sizes. With percentages they would have just resized I guess. I will fix that next time I work on the macros.

Thank you.

… and the answer is “make sure the tables don’t have a defined width, just set the cells to have a width and let the macro adjust that”.

Doh!

Eureka!

First create a paragraph style and set the bullet in the Bulleted tab.

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Then click the Outline Numbered Tab and do not change focus from the highlighted square

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Customise that as required.

30741-WordList3

Result. I can indent as many times as I want.

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This method allows me to have multiple bullet styles that all indent properly.

Thanks again to everyone who replied. It really did all help.

I don’t know if this gives any more clues.
The bullet is correct when applied. Click Indent though and it is not consistent.
First click – Changes to a circle instead of a black bullet
Second click – Correct
Third click – Correct
Fourth click – Circle
Fifth click – Correct
Sixth click – Correct
Seventh click – Circle
Eighth click – Correct

Pam / Kim

I reset all the bullets and deleted my Bullet Round and Bullet Square styles. Now I have the problem in Bullet Round as well!

I have created a brand new template and first went to the Bullets and Numbering. I went to the Bulleted, Numbered and Outline Numbered tabs and selected every list followed by Reset. Then I recreated Bullet Round.

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30737-WordNewBulletRound2

The only things I changed were the numbers so that the bullets align with normal text rather than being indented.

Karen – In the third paragraph of your first post, you refer to Numbering.

Pam – In the third paragraph of your post, you refer to changing the Numbering.

Am I missing something there as I am working in the Bulleted tab. I did nonetheless reset everything to None, as stated above.

I notice that if I click say the third bullet of the first screenshot in this post and then click the Numbered tab, the third option there is highlighted. Is that normal behaviour? If I click None under Numbered, then None will also be highlighted under Bulleted. I get that on more than one machine.

Would it help if I attached the template just created to this thread?

Thank you both for your suggestions.

Kim

Thank you for those ideas. I will give them a try on Monday and post back.

The bad news is that I just tried recreating the bullet style on a different machine (Word 2007 on this one) and got the same problem, albeit with less of an indent for the second bullet than in my screenshot above.

Hate the way Word 2007 does not allow you to modify your bullet settings, the only option being to create a new bullet. Also in this version I could not see where to apply the indents for the bullets.

Somehow I am not looking forward to Monday but thanks for the pointers. If it was any of the other bullet styles it wouldn’t matter but of course they work perfectly.

I support a forum for a very different product and what’s the first thing I often have to ask people? The version. My apologies.

I am working with Word 2003 because I am more familiar with that version for this type of work. I do also have Word 2007 and Word 2010 on various machines.

The template dates back to at least Word 97.

I am familiar with the document you pointed to and have had another look. These are not multi level lists, none of them have been set up that way yet all the others work. The key point is not the way to set up styles as all the other lists are working. This one is set up the same way as far as I can see but does not work.

I am also intrigued by the Char Char styles. They are foreign to me but I cannot delete them.

That shot in the dark was a hole in one Sir!

Thank you.

Thank you Charles and Pam. I thought I had email notification of replies set up, hence not coming back sooner.

Charles: I did in fact find that page soon after, it is an excellent resource.

Pam: Hopefully it will be made possible to truly change multilevel lists as well in the future.

Again, thanks to both of you.