MS word template wont save add-in as active - ms-word

I have one file with macros (file type is word macro-enabled template .dotm), same file also has a ribbon modification (a button in custom tab, which calls macros in same file).
Macros are very simple - just insert static text in current document.
I have a different file (same type .dotm) where I include first file through "Developer->Add-Ins". As a result I have a new ribbon tab with a button. If I press the button I have text in document - everything works. Until I save/load file. It never saves included add-in state, this add-in is always inactive (if I activate it manually it works).
If I put the template file into the Word startup folder it loads but I do not want to load it for all documents, just for that one.
I tried enable all macros, sign first file - nothing works. That add-in is unchecked (you can see it in list, but it is marked as inactive).
(Show add-in user interface errors - does not show anything).
Why won't Word save included add-in as active and how to make it to save add-in as active?

Looks like you can not load template/add-in for only single document.
You can load add-in for session or put it to startup folder to load it for each document.

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what happens in the backend when CTRL+Z and CTRL+Y is clicked in microsoft word?How is data retrieved back on the click of CTRL+Y?

Working with word doc or excel or notepad we observe that the click of CTRL+Z deletes the data and click of CTRL+Y returns back the data. I want to know how in the software this is being managed. Where does the data get stored and how is it retrieved.
Word (and the other applications probably handle it similarly) maintains "temp" and "scratch" files in the same folder as the document file. During editing, information such as the changes being made are tracked in these files in order to enable Undo/Redo.
Beyond that, this is proprietary information that Microsoft has not made public.

How to force Word to do a SaveAs on generated document

We have a system where we are generating a report as a Word document (using RDLC).
The report is created in a temporary directory, and then Word is launched to display it to the user.
Word is launched, and the report loaded by:
_wordApplication = (Word.Application)Activator.CreateInstance(Type.GetTypeFromProgID("Word.Application"));
object tempFileNameObj = documentPath;
_wordDocument = _wordApplication.Documents.Open(ref tempFileNameObj);
What I want is to convince Word that this is really a newly created, unsaved file, so it will give the user a SaveAs dialog when they save it (rather than save back to the temporary location).
Ideally, I would like to be able to specify the target directory, and offer a default name.
While the Word is being launched, I can do what I like using Automation, but after Word has been launched, my application will be disconnected from Word, and I would prefer not to leave any macros floating around in the document.
You can rename your .doc file to .dot (Word Template) and if you launch it afterwards, it will create a new File looking exactely like your .doc
If you're not using a macro I believe that the only way to archieve this would be to save the file that they will download be a read-only or user defined template file this way if they wan't to make changes to it they wil have to save it with another name in their computer to save the changes made. If you can use a macro you can archieve more options and even force a save as dialog when the document is opened or when it's closed. I hope this helps as I couldn't find any more information without using a macro.

Reactivating COM AddIn with Word Interop

I've written a custom ribbon for word. In my winForms-application I also open a word document with word-Interop to create some texts with word.
When I use normal word documents my ribbon is shown correct but when I open the document in my application then the ribbon is gone.
I found out that it is somehow disabled in the COM-AddIn-Options in Word. When I reactivate it manually it appears.
How can I reactivate it programmatically?
[Update]
For better understanding: I have two solutions.
1) A AddIn for Word which displays a ribbon
2) A winform-application which has a winword-control which loads word in it.
When the second one is started the first one is not available anymore.
To answer your question, it's not possible to programatically re-enable your add-in from the add-in itself. Think about it - it doesn't get loaded, so its code won't get run. So nothing you put in your code will re-enable the addin, because it won't get executed.
The only way would be to create a watchdog process that checks if the COM add-in has been disabled every 10 minutes or so, and re-enables it. You'll need to know where Word stores those settings though.

Trying to get along with Interwoven

I am to create a new design (CSS & HTML) for a web site which is created using Interwoven ContentCenter Professional.
Now, I can see the existing files in CMS (Interwoven) but, I can't make changes. My changes are displayed only when I'm in edit mode. Nothing in the live page. I tried to submit, create editions of files but still no good.
How should I create or edit pages in Interwoven CMS?
Thanks.
If you're talking about generic pages, then once you are finished you have to click on the Generate option, then choose a directory and click Finish. Last thing you should do is to choose yeswhen it asks you to Re-generate the page.
What you are trying to do is just creating a new file, not generating a file from TeamSite's Formpublisher. It is just like if you are in Windows Explorer and creating a new file. In order to generate a file from a form entry, you need to be in the templatedata directory, ex: /default/main/branch1/WORKAREA/wa1/templatedata/category/type(on unix) or Y:/default/main/branch1/WORKAREA/wa1/templatedata/category/type (on Windows). There should be a file call datacapture.cfg there. There is another directory called data under the above path which stores your data content record (dcr) that are created from the form. This is the file that you can use to generate which will use the (tpl) file under the presentation directory.

Word 2010 : Automatically populate Backstage tab from Folder

We're about to move from Office 2000 to 2010 and are looking at how best to provide our templates to users.
What I want to do is replace the Office.com templates with our own.
Looking at the documentation and Technet blogs I see that we can either create or amend the tabs in the Backstage view, but I am trying to find out if we can do this in a relatively hands-off manner.
Our templates are stored on a network server, with subfolders grouping similar templates. Whilst we could point Workgroup templates at the root folder and get the My Templates dialog, this feels like a step back.
1) Can we create a backstage tab (or replace the New tab)
2) Can we set this tab up to automatically display the templates that are in the folder and use the subfolders to sort the templates? Such that if a new template is added to a folder we do not need to roll out a new version of the backstage
Of course the Office 2010 File New Backstage is not very appropriate for a corporate environment.
To disable the "Templates from Office.com" you can use a Windows Group Policy (the option is named "Disable template downloads from the client and from Office.com").
However, you'll find in the File New Backstage still the entry for "Sample Templates". These templates cannot be uninstalled. Find detailed information on this page on the Word MVPS site.
Your question 1:
Yes, you can create a new Backstage Tab, or hide the Word File New tab (you'll need both) throug an add-in.
Your question 2:
If you want to mimic the Pre-Office 2007 FileNew dialogs, you must also recurr to an add-in which does exactly what you need. For example, read the files from a network share and display them in the Backstage view. However, the File New replacements I've developed in the last years did recurr to a configuration file, because you have the possbility to display additional information for the users, e.g. about the use of the template, or about differences (between "Legal Opinion small" and "Legal Opinion large" etc.). Administration of a config file is also "hands-on" without problems.
At least in Word there is one other option:
On the Quick access toolbar you can put another "New from Template" icon (I don't know what it is exactly called anymore, but it is there in the selection of icon from Microsoft) which opens up straight the Pop up window with all your templates without going trough the ridiculous long winded process via the Backstage.