Controlling an external application from Word

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    - Word Fields I am using Word 2002 I have a field code (field on the insert drop down) that on click needs to select the field (1 or more words) and then if the user starts typing the text needs to change color and format. I am new to field codes so i need lots of help Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72810
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    - Templates on Word 2000 I have a problem with the template on my Microsoft Word 2000 Every time that I open a new window to write something, I always see a phrase from a previous text that I wrote. Can somebody advise, please, on how to rectify this? Many thanks in advance. CR Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72807
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    - code for formatting Hi, I want a code for formatting a document with the following options. Will any one guide me with a code for accomplishing this task ? FONT TAHOMA FONT SIZE 12 MARGINS LEFT : 3.6 CMS (1.417â??) TOP : 2 CMS (0.787â??) RIGHT : 1.7 CMS (0.669â??) BOTTOM : 1.76 CMS (0.693â??) Paragraph spacing 1.5 JUSTIFIED Thank you in advance Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72802
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    - How to setup Select Variable Page Headers Would someone please advise me on how to setup my document (which undergoes many changes) so that I can select variable Headers or change the pre-defined Page 1 Header automatically? I thought of setting file(s) with different header texts that would be copied/pasted from the pre-defined text automatically into the body of the 1st pg Header. However I haven't a clue as to exactly where to start and how to Get the header text needed. thx, Ted Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72801
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    - Speed of macros reduced to a snail pace Hi I recently asked a question about two docs that use the same .dot as reference to execute macros and install a toolbar. One of the docs works very well while the other one (much longer table) has become unusable due to the speed of execution Today, I inserted a second table in the slow doc and the macros executed right away. So I have concluded that it is the length of the main table in the problematic doc that is causing the problem and nothing else. I have copied below one of the macros the speed of which seems to be affected by the length of the table. Can anyone help me to get around this problem as I can't wait one minute each time for a macro to execute. I selcet the word with the cursor before running the macro. Thanks in advance Dave Neve Sub FallingLong() Dim wordrange As Range, lrange As Range, i As Long, j As Long Set wordrange = Selection.Range j = 2 For i = 1 To wordrange.Characters.Count Set lrange = wordrange.Characters(i) If Selection.Characters.Count <= 5 Then lrange.Font.Size = 18 lrange.Font.Size = lrange.Font.Size - j j = j + 2 lrange.Font.Spacing = 5 wordrange.Font.Color = wdColorSkyBlue Else lrange.Font.Size = 16 lrange.Font.Size = lrange.Font.Size - j j = j + 1 lrange.Font.Spacing = 5 wordrange.Font.Color = wdColorSkyBlue End If Next i Selection.Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseEnd Selection.ExtendMode = False Selection.Font.Reset Call NextWordSelect End Sub Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72795
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    - combine downloaded word docs from website? Hello, This is a long shot, but I'm thinking you folks would probably have some pointers for me. On this website: http://www.cityofbellevue.org/page.asp?view=7863 There's a set of links to months. If you click on one of the months (say, August), you get a set of links to Microsoft Word doc files, 3 for each day of the month: http://www.cityofbellevue.org/page.asp?view=38806 Is there a way to combine all of these docs into one document, then sort by district? Would this be something I could do with vba? thanks for any pointers! Sylvia Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72793
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    - Resequencing Paragraph Outline Numbering Hello Everyone, I'm trying to automate a task. I want the user to select the original text (example below), execute the macro and convert it to what looks like in the reformatted example. The assumptions is that there will never be more than 30 entries for any level of outline numbering. The text is all plain text as well and all the paragraphs have no styles associated with them. I've tried coding finding and replacing using loops but was getting hung up on keeping the numbering together. Any easy ideas on how to do this? Original Text: 1. First Paragraph. a. Sales Plan. b. Strategy. (1) Strategy 1. (2) Strategy 2. (3) Strategy 3. c. Marketing Plan. 2. Second Paragraph. a. Intent b. Concept of Execution. (1) Execution 1. (2) Execution 2. (3) Execution 3. Reformatted Text: 1. First Paragraph. 1.a. Sales Plan. 1.b. Strategy. 1.b.(1) Strategy 1. 1.b.(2) Strategy 2. 1.b.(3) Strategy 3. 1.c. Marketing Plan. 2. Second Paragraph. 2.a. Intent 2.b. Concept of Execution. 2.b.(1) Execution 1. 2.b.(2) Execution 2. 2.b.(3) Execution 3. Thanks for the help! Terry Hagen Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72792
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    - How to convert .doc file to .pdf file from Word, please ?! I am trying to convert a .doc file ( a manuscript ) to a .pdf to transfer to Palm. Adding converters was not the answer. Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72766
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    - align text left and align text right: on the same line How to do it in MS Word? Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72763
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    - Can Word 2003 preserve the intrinsic formatting of XML documents? ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=28931d78-3c0d-4e79-9593-6f8e33e4e7d0&dg=microsoft.public.word.vba.general Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72761
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    - File Open Dialog based on startup directory Hi, I'd like for word's File-Open & Save-As dialogs to point to the directory from which I launched word. For example, I might just launch winword.exe from the command line, say in directory: c:\abc\xyz in which case I'd like for File-Open & Save-As to point to this directory. Could you point me to suitable VBA source-code or inbuilt word menu options by which I can achieve this ? Thanks, Anand. Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72741
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    - how insert new line in MsgBox? In the [prompt] argument of MsgBox, how do I start text on a new line? Thanks. Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72739
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    - Help, my template file size is out of control!! Hi all. I've been following everyone's advice and creating a template and using styles, no direct formatting, etc etc. Now, my template has grown to over 1 MB and there is not even any content to it yet!! Is there a way I can go through the document and see what's eating up all the space? (my latest addition was a table of contents and table of figures, and I noticed that jumped it up from 450k to 1.1MB ... however, it seems like 450k is even too large!!) Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72735
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    - Programmatically creating charts with Word and VB.Net Hi to all! I have an issue that has been bugging me for quite some time and I hope that someone might be able to point me into the right direction here. The story is â?? I am writing an application that would allow a user to create a Word output from pre-defined data tables. The output can contain both charts and tables. While generating the output, Word or MSGraph cannot be visible to the user. What I have is something like this [CODE] private sub AddChart(params) Dim oShape As Word.InlineShape Dim oChart As Object oShape = _wordDocument.Bookmarks.Item("\endofdoc").Range.InlineShapes.AddOLEObject(ClassType:="MSGraph.Chart.8", FileName:="", LinkToFile:=False, DisplayAsIcon:=False) oChart = oShape.OLEFormat.Object If (chartOptions.UpdateDataSheet(oChart) <> True) Then CLogger.Log("Chart has no data present. Check to make sure you are not hidding the entire chart", CLogger.EntryType.Warning) End If CLogger.LogIf("Updating Chart Options") chartOptions.UpdateChart(oChart) oChart.Application.Update() oChart.Application.Quit() AddSection() End sub [/CODE] Here is what happens â?? first time we run this â?? everything is good, second time, Word document becomes visible as well as the MSGraph window appears. It happens when we hit the line with oShape = â?¦â?¦. I am wondering if someone knows the way to hide that Word document and that MSGraph window. Thanks in advance. Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72730
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    - How do I UNHIDE ALL the toolbars in Word? Whenever I start up Word, I only see the Blue bar at the top of the window and the blank Word document. There are NO TOOLBARS shown (at the top, bottom, or on the sides of the window). How do I get the toolbars back? Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72727
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    - set field sequence mandatory completion in form I would like to create a form with the the first few fields to be a mandatory completion before going on to the next. Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72725
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    - Track changes, deletions and additions I have a bunch of documents with addition and deletion markups. I want to make a macro that will go through an entire document, find everything that is a deletion, put a true strikethrough on it, then deny the changes, so it stays on page, and keeps the strikethrough. Then i want the macro to go through and find all additions, font.color them wdColorRed, and accept the changes, so they're on the document and color of red. If anyone can help it's much appreciated. Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72704
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    - Auto-create chart objects I have an excel spreadsheet with 600 rows in it. Each row has the name of an item followed by several columns of numbers. I need to create 3 different small charts in a Word document for each row in the spreadsheet. In word, you will see a Item Name, with 3 small, but different charts on the next line, followed by a blank line. I know I can create the charts in Excel using a macro and then copy and paste them into word as pictures. Once that is done, I can tell word to run a macro to format the pictures. But the quality of the text breaks down depending upon how much I stretch the charts. WHAT I WOULD RATHER DO is, either from Excel, tell word to insert Excel chart objects or from Word, get the data from Excel and create the chart objects. Using the first method, I have created a macro in Excel to tell Word to run a macro to put in a line of text with the item name in it, followed by a paragraph break, followed by inserting an Excel object. But where do I put the macro that tells the Excel object how to format itself? I do not want to store the macro in each Excel object as that would bloat the document. I have tried to place the Macro back in the original Excel sheet, but when I tell it to run, it seems to want to run within the original Excel sheet, not within the Excel object in Word. What am I doing wrong? Or am I missing something even simpler that would solve my problem? Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72703
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    - View.ShowBookmarks problem Hello, if I change the value of View.ShowBookmarks for a specific document = window, it seems that Word will remember the setting and apply it to the = all the documents it opens subsequently. Is there a way to avoid this? Best wishes, Alex. --=20 Address email to user "response" at domain "alexoren" with suffix "com" Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72702
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    - Word 2000 Merge with VBA I have a name badge document that I routinely merge with an Access data base on a server. I create name badges for several offices. Each office is generated with a make table and 2 append queries, with a query for the final data. The final data query for each office is used to create the name badges for each office. I recorded the merge process for one query, then copied for each office. The code is: Sub Merge_EventsDataBase_HOU() ' ' MailMerge Macro ' Macro recorded 8/17/2005 by cm9125 ' ActiveDocument.MailMerge.OpenDataSource Name:= _ "I:\Access\Registration_Lists_Pinnell\RegistrationLists_Original.mdb", _ ConfirmConversions:=False, ReadOnly:=False, LinkToSource:=True, _ AddToRecentFiles:=False, PasswordDocument:="", PasswordTemplate:="", _ WritePasswordDocument:="", WritePasswordTemplate:="", Revert:=False, _ Format:=wdOpenFormatAuto, Connection:= _ "QUERY Qry-N_B-Office-HOU-4-FinalData", SQLStatement:= _ "SELECT * FROM [Qry-N_B-Office-HOU-4-FinalData]", SQLStatement1:="" With ActiveDocument.MailMerge .Destination = wdSendToNewDocument .MailAsAttachment = False .MailAddressFieldName = "" .MailSubject = "" .SuppressBlankLines = True With .DataSource .FirstRecord = wdDefaultFirstRecord .LastRecord = wdDefaultLastRecord End With .Execute Pause:=True End With End Sub Copied this code and changed the query name for each of the other offices. This code ran fine, but when I tried the other offices got "Run-time error '5922': Word was unable to open the data source." Can someone help me with this? Also, on my computer it goes to the "I:" drive. On someone else's computer it may not be "I:". Is there a way to let the other user enter their drive number? Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72697
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    - Basic Newbie Question: What's the ":=" operator for? I think the subject says it all. For some reason I can't find it in any references online. Thanks Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72696
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    - genreate ms-word doc from excel Hi all, I have worked on an excel project recently with a lot of help form this board. The goal was to assort couple of tables from one sheet to another to make things easier for comparison. Now I have a new task. I need to generate couple of ms-word documents from this excel sheet. The plan right now is to have a menuitem like "Generate docs" in excelsheet and by clicking on that we can generate about 40 word documents or so. We have a word template file. For each word document we need to have the folowing things 1. Module name as the heading 2. Description of the module 3. Table of data All these information are in the excel sheet. They are stored in excel sheet using named ranges. Now, I need to gather these data and generate the word docs. What would be the best approach to solve this problem. Ideally we would like to do this with out even opening the word application. I am requesting your valued suggestions on this problem. Thanks in advance, shishi Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72694
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    - Passing values from one .dot file to another .dot file Iam New member for this group!!!! My project is to pass values from .dot file to another .dot file (lets say two .dot files test1.dot and test2.dot) test1.dot: When user runs the macro go(), the wizard / form will be open to enter the employee number, once he enters, it prints the Employee number in a document (Doc1) and saved it to the disk, after this it will open test2.dot test2.dot: This should calculate the salary based on the employee number received from the test1.dot, and attach the salary component to the earlier created file (Doc1) by test1.dot Iam not sure how to pass the values from one .dot file to another .dot file test1.dot code =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Private Sub CmdFinish1_Click() ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("Firs=AD=ADtName").Range.Text =3D Me.txtFirstName.Text ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("EmpN=AD=ADumb").Range.Text =3D Me.TextBox1 test1.Enabled =3D False ActiveDocument.SaveAs FileName:=3D"C:\doc1.dot" ActiveDocument.SaveAs FileName:=3D"C:\doc2.dot" Call test2 Unload Me Application.Quit End Sub Public Function test2() Dim wrdAppl As Word.Application Set wrdAppl =3D New Word.Application wrdAppl.Documents.Open ("C:\test2.dot") Set wrdAppl =3D Nothing End Function test2.dot code =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Private Sub Document_Open() ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("bksa=AD=ADlary").Range.Text =3D salary test2.Show End Sub Public Function salary() As String Dim sal As String If (ActiveDocument.CustomDocument=AD=ADProperties.Item("Employee").V=ADa=ADlue =3D "1") Then salary =3D "100K" ElseIf (ActiveDocument.CustomDocument=AD=ADProperties.Item("Employee").V=ADa=ADlue =3D " ") Then salary =3D "Salary not generated" End If End Function Private Sub CmdFinish2_Click() ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("Last=AD=ADName").Range.Text =3D Me.txtLastName.Text Dim Doc1 As Word.Document Set Doc1 =3D GetObject("C:\doc1.dot", "Word.Document") Doc1.Range =3D Doc1.Range + ActiveDocument.Range Doc1.SaveAs FileName:=3D"C:\doc3.dot" Doc1.Close 'close doc3 Set Doc1 =3D Nothing Unload Me ActiveDocument.Close 'close test2.dot End Sub in test2.dot =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D I have written code to read the values from customdocumentproperties if we want to see manually ..open any document go to File menu -> Properties -> Custom Tab. What i need is to get the employee number from test1.dot to the custom properties of the test2.dot so that i can perform necessary salary calculations If any of know how to pass the values from .dot file to another .dot file will be a great help You can directly mail to me if you need the test1.dot and test2.dot files for any clarification I will also update the groups as and when required=20 Thanks=20 Srini Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72693
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    - OT: Agent Forte and Private Groups Hi everybody, since the last harddrive crash I'm trying without success to get back to the private groups. I'm using agent forté. Maybe someone can help me via EMail, as I don't want to molest the group with this. Might become a long story, as I am completely lost and I don't have the faintest idea where to start. Helmut Weber Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72689
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    - Problem with Word Code in 2003 I am performing a mail merge in Word through an Access database. As part of the process, I check to see if a Word document is already a mail merge document, and then, if it is, if it has the correct data source. Thus, from within Access, I use: If objWord.ActiveDocument.MailMerge.State=wdMainAndDataSource Then ... This has worked fine with Access/Word 2000, or if the program is used with Access/Word 2002. However, with Access/Word 2003, the MailMerge.State value returns wdNormalDocument (0) instead of wdMainAndDataSource (2). I double-checked the document, and it clearly is a mail merge main document with a data source. When when read through Access, I get the return value of a normal document. Any ideas as to what's going on? Thanks, Neil Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72688
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    - date code question I am trying to modify the date code field to automatically populate a date in my word document X number of days from the present date. Would I be able to modify the following to accomplish this task and if so, how would you go about doing it? { DATE \@ "dddd MM/dd/yy"} So, when this document is edited today (08/18/05), the code will produce: Thursday 08/18/05 I want to modify the code so it is always smart enough to add X days to the date automatically. So, if I wanted it to display a date 7 days into the future (X=7), output would automatically be adjusted to display: Thursday 08/25/05 How can the date code listed above be modified to accomplish this? Thanks. Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72687
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    - Controlling text wrapping around an image. Hello We generate word documents from content in a database (AuthorIT application). I want to have an image on the front page of my document _behind_ the text. When generated, the text is wrapped around the image. I want to use a macro to set the image to display beneath the text. I have come up with this macro: Sub MoveImage() Dim iShape, Shape On Error Resume Next For Each iShape In ActiveDocument.Sections.First.Range.InlineShapes iShape.ConvertToShape Next For Each Shape In ActiveDocument.Sections.First.Range.ShapeRange Shape.WrapFormat.Type = wdWrapThrough Next End Sub This doesn't work when run as soon as the doc is generated, but curiously does work if i manually select the image then run it. Can anyone help me to develop a macro that will set the desired wrapping without any manual action? Thanks Dave. Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72671
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    - HELP!!- Object or class does not support set of events Hi. I'm trying to run a mailmerge from VB6(sp6) which produces a set of labels. It works fine from my development machine but when I install the app anywhere else I get the error above. I'm not even sure where to start in trying to solve this error. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. I'm developing on XP and the project references Microsoft Word 11.0 Onject library...if that helps. Thanks Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72668
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    - Some method to have allways 'macro' docs ? Hello again : I know all the conditions regarding macro security, but I really want a corporate system to avoid that somebody can't open a doc without use it's autoopen macro. I know about server solutions, but my ask is the next : If user have top level of security set, is it possible to force to user to execute corporate macros ? Thanks and excuse my bad english Antonio Pérez Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72665
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    - Find method rebound sometimes Hello : I have a document with paragraphs and tables, in some cases I have nothing ( only a carriage return symbol ), but ( because many people worked in the docs ) it has a style I want to change. I have a macro to find all these cases but my 'do... loop macro' rebound eternally when find those cases. I fix the problem making : Selection.MoveRight(Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1) Selection.MoveDown(Unit:=wdLine, Count:=1) but it is not the solution ( in addition it fails ) Some idea ??? Antonio Pérez Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72664
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    - Print Directly To PDF What line of code would I use in word to print a document directly to a PDF without getting in information form the user. The variables that I would want to set in code would be: For the PDF to be saved in the same location as the original document. I want to set the name of the PDF in code The name of my PDF printer is: "Adobe PDF" I just want to put a button on a word document that prints the current to a PDF storing it in the same location as the original document and with a file name that I set in code. Thankyou in advance for your help. Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72660
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    - Word should have a dumb mode Word should have a mode that turns off all the auto-formatting to that you can write a document in free format. I'm thinking of a simple toggle button rather than having to go into a menu and uncheck a bunch of boxes. Recent versions of Word have become too damn helpful..... ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=f76929cd-0b91-4043-bcb1-22c087f0e219&dg=microsoft.public.word.vba.general Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72658
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    - document object prompt unexpected save as dialog In my VB6 DLL, I create a word document object, and some mailmerge and save to a file. It works well before but now (No any change to this DLL) it prompt an unexpected save as dialog, and after I save the document, dll raise error "you cann't insert the selection into table". In vb code I called document.saveas funcion. Can anyone help? Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72650
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    - Display Print Dialog Thankyou in advance. I have the bellow code capturing the print event. But what I would like to do is still display the Print Dialog so the user can change which Printer they wish to print to instead of just the default. Sub FilePrint() ActiveDocument.txtBox = "Job File Copy" ActiveDocument.PrintOut ActiveDocument.txtBox = "Client Copy" ActiveDocument.PrintOut ActiveDocument.Save End Sub The requirement for the document is that it prints out in duplicate and the heading needs to be different on each print out. The above code achieves the printing in duplicate and changing the headings but only to the default printer. I would like to display the Print Dialog so that they can change the printer. Thankyou again. Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72648
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    - .Next feature In the following code why does the line MsgBox aWord.Next return just the first letter of the next word rather than the complete word? Thanks Sub Testing() Dim aWord For Each aWord In ActiveDocument.Range.Words MsgBox aWord MsgBox aWord.Next Next aWord End Sub -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72647
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    - Programatically adding new autotext entries to a global template I'm in the process of (hopefully) improving the overall use of Word XP in our small office. Being a self-taught newbie to VBA, I've found this newsgroup to be of real value as a source of info and tips. As part of the process, I've created a global template ( called RI_Global.dot) which will hold, amongst other things, all our generic autotext entries, ie - ones we want to be available all the time in any document. What I'm seeking guidance about concerns the way a new user-created autotext entry is "saved" to a template. My understanding is that the default choice is the normal.dot template, whereas I want the entry to be saved into RI_Global.dot. Is it possible to "force" a newly created AutoText entry to be saved into RI_Global.dot, rather than relying on the users to remember to choose this template when they access the Insert/AutoText/AutoText command? Also, can I intercept the "Alt+F3" shortcut to again force the entry to be saved to my global template? I've found the appropriate(?) dialog which might be interceptable [ie: Dialogs(wdDialogEditAutoText)], but I can't see how any of the options can be manipulated through VBA. Using the macro recorder and selecting the global template from the "Look in:" drop-down box doesn't shed any light on the steps involved when I look at the resulting code. Thanks in anticipation. Regards, Gavin Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72645
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    - Amending the File Open dialog Since upgrading to Word2003 I notice that the "Look in" box in File/Open dialog always seems to point to the last directory I used. Whilst this is sometimes convenient, most of the time I want to open files in the specific directory, "DirName", which I have created to contain my most used files, with its own tree substructure. I therefore wish to ensure that "Look in" always defaults to that given directory. Could (or should) this be achieved by modifying the following module already installed which ensures that the "Files of type" box always shows "All Files":- Sub FileOpen() With Dialogs(wdDialogFileOpen) .Name = "*.*" .Show End With End Sub Or should a separate new module be used. Being not too familiar with the Visual Basic codes, can someone kindly advise how to do this. Thanks Jack Sadie Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72643
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    - drag & drop to word Hi, how to enable drop function(have a drag icon displaying, like drag something from outlook to Word) when I drag files in my application(VB application) into MS word document. Please help. Thanks. Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72638
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    - Creating documents with a serial number I'm trying to figure out how to serialize documents when printing. For example, if I want to print 30 copies, I'd like each copy to have a different serial number for each one from 01-30. This would ideally be placed in a document footer, and would reset (or not reset) each time the document is openedAny help would be greatly appreciated. Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72637
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    - How to Add Hyperlink to Protected Word Form Not sure if this is possible but I have a protected Word form where I need the following to happen: I have a checkbox where if it is unchecked then TextBox1 should be "N/A". However if the checkbox is clicked, I need Textbox1 to populate with Null, and Textbox2 to populate with a hyperlink. Anyone have any ideas how to do this? BTW I'm a beginner when it comes to programming so layman's terms would be great! Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72636
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    - Clean Up for Merge Code Dear All, I have a template that is creating a new document using data from an access query that is merged into a Word template. All Office 2003 apps on Win2K and XP pro workstations. The document is created -- but there is also an additional "Document 1" that is created every time that has to be deleted -- a copy of the template with no data in it. If anyone can point out how I can eliminate that extra clutter, I would appreciate it. Additionally, my code is messy, since a lot of it was generated by recording. I'd appreciate gentle recommendations for cleaning it up. Right now, it says" Sub autonew() ' Perform Merge using CatalogTextSource.txt ActiveDocument.MailMerge.MainDocumentType = wdFormLetters ActiveDocument.MailMerge.OpenDataSource Name:= _ "C:\TEMP\MtgNoticeSource.txt", ConfirmConversions:=False, _ ReadOnly:=False, LinkToSource:=True, AddToRecentFiles:=False, _ PasswordDocument:="", PasswordTemplate:="", WritePasswordDocument:="", _ WritePasswordTemplate:="", Revert:=False, Format:=wdOpenFormatAuto With ActiveDocument.MailMerge .Destination = wdSendToNewDocument .MailAsAttachment = False .MailAddressFieldName = "" .MailSubject = "" .SuppressBlankLines = True With .DataSource .FirstRecord = wdDefaultFirstRecord .LastRecord = wdDefaultLastRecord End With .Execute Pause:=True End With ' Save New Merge Document as NewMeetingNotice.doc ChangeFileOpenDirectory "C:\My Documents\" ActiveDocument.SaveAs FileName:="\\cpa_comp\chapters\_chapter Programs\-Chapter Notice E-Form\__Current\NewMeetingNotice.doc", FileFormat:= _ wdFormatDocument, LockComments:=False, Password:="", AddToRecentFiles:= _ True, WritePassword:="", ReadOnlyRecommended:=False, EmbedTrueTypeFonts:= _ False, SaveNativePictureFormat:=False, SaveFormsData:=False, _ SaveAsAOCELetter:=False Followed by code to clean up and format the document Thnak you in advance for any assistance. Sincerely, Ridge (in New Joisey) Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72631
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    - Identifying Pictures and Drawing Objects I've done some work with a template that shows and hides graphic images -- allowing a user to fax a document (show image of logo) or print the document on letterhead (hiding image of logo). I found that the picures came in as "Picture 11" and "Picture 22" and so on. I was able to identify them by using the recorder and selecting them and then looking at the code. But I was wondering if there is any, more efficient way, to identify image and drawing objects? Ridge (in New Joisey) Tag: Controlling an external application from Word Tag: 72628
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Hello guys!

I have a Word medical report and a audio file with the info which must be
written. There is a simple application who runs the audio file. What I want
to know is if I can send a play/pause instruction to that application from
Word!

Is there anyway to do this? I believe I could create a "play" and "pause"
macros (and associate them to a key, for instance)...

I thank anyone who could help me!
Best regards,
--
Ricardo Pinto

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Re: Controlling an external application from Word by Cindy

Cindy
Tue Aug 23 08:57:15 CDT 2005

Hi =?Utf-8?B?cmljYWZvcnJpY2E=?=,

> I have a Word medical report and a audio file with the info which must be
> written. There is a simple application who runs the audio file. What I want
> to know is if I can send a play/pause instruction to that application from
> Word!
>
You could do this IF that application provides an automation interface. You'd
probably need to contact the manufacturer of the application to ask about
this.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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