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"Geoff332" wrote in message
news:E642BA89-D7E4-4360-89B5-9C58945AE451@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> I have a bunch of documents that use all sorts of macro code to format and
> control the document. The documents are all based on a template and the
> code
> is located in the template.
>
> I want to add a "publish" function that will prepare the document for
> sending out to customers (update a few fields, set document protection
> etc).
> At the completion of the publish function, I want it to either disable or
> remove the macros from the published instance document. This is important,
> because we don't want to expose the macros and other bits and pieces to
> our
> customers (or even to have the warning dialogue pop-up).
>
> Is this possible?

If you create a document based on a template, the macros are not contained
in the document. The macros in thwe template remain available because the
document references the template. If you send a document out to a customer
without sending the template, the customer will not have the macros. You
don't need to take any special action to achieve this.

>
> The second piece that would be wonderful is to add the ability to
> reactivate
> the code from the original template, to allow us to manage and update the
> document. I can assume that the original template is available for this
> function.

provided that you re-open the document on a PC that has the template, then
the macros will be automatically available again. Provided the template is
in the same location as fore, or is in one of Word's recognised locations
(e.g. in the user templates folder) then again, no special action is
required.


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Regards
Jonathan West - Word MVP
www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk
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