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    - How do I automate lists of effective pages in word I have a technical manual with many chapters (seperate word documents) and I would like to know whether it is possible to automate the list of effective pages contained in the first chapter? Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 60080
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    - Shift enter mapping I created the Macros as Greg suggested but I am having a problem with it working. These macros were added to a template other than Normal.dot and I have placed the template in the startup folder. What I am finding is the first time I open MS Word the macros are not working. If I closed the initial document and create a new document the macros work. Does anyone know how I can get it working on the document that opens first? "I would create a template with the following macros and use it for documents that you want use this feature for: Sub AutoNew() 'Assigns the Macro1 Macro to the ENTER Key CustomizationContext = ActiveDocument.AttachedTemplate KeyBindings.Add KeyCode:=BuildKeyCode(wdKeyReturn), _ KeyCategory:=wdKeyCategoryMacro, Command:="Macro1" End Sub Sub AutoOpen() 'Assigns the Macro1 Macro to the ENTER Key CustomizationContext = ActiveDocument.AttachedTemplate KeyBindings.Add KeyCode:=BuildKeyCode(wdKeyReturn), _ KeyCategory:=wdKeyCategoryMacro, Command:="Macro1" End Sub Sub AutoClose() CustomizationContext = ActiveDocument.AttachedTemplate FindKey(KeyCode:=BuildKeyCode(wdKeyReturn)).Disable 'Disables prompt to save template changes Templates(1).Save End Sub Sub Macro1() ' ' Macro1 Macro ' Macro recorded December 1, 2004 by CDR Gregory K. Maxey ' Selection.TypeText Text:=Chr(11) End Sub" Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 60079
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    - Selecting a page Would someone be able to tell me how to select a range on a specific page in a word document. For example I am using one of the following to select text from a word document: 1) Set Vendorname = ActiveDocument.Range(Start:=108, End:=149) 2) Set VendorLine1 = appWrd.ActiveDocument.Range (Start:=205, End:=206) VendorLine1.End = VendorLine1.Paragraphs(1).Range.End VendorLine1.MoveEnd Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=-1 However, I am not able to select this on anything but the first page. How can I use VBA to say I want this from another page? Thanks!! Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 60074
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    - How can I speed this up Can anyone help me please The bit of code below outputs 30 text boxes onto a page and takes about 25 seconds to do. This is a trial sample of something I am trying to develop. My 2 Questions are 1) Is there a limit to the number of text boxes you can output to a document, and 2) If not, how can I speed this up. The application I am working on potentially has thousands of text boxes to output over 10s of pages. Many thanks Phil Option Explicit Function DrawTextBoxs(NoBoxes As Integer) Dim i As Long Dim TopCorner As Long Dim LeftCorner As Long For i = 1 To NoBoxes If LeftCorner = 0 Then LeftCorner = 20 Else LeftCorner = LeftCorner + 150 End If If TopCorner = 0 Then TopCorner = 10 End If If LeftCorner > 500 Then LeftCorner = 20 TopCorner = TopCorner + 100 End If ActiveDocument.Shapes.AddTextbox(msoTextOrientationHorizontal, LeftCorner, TopCorner, 100, 80).Select Selection.ShapeRange.Select With Selection.ShapeRange .TextFrame.MarginLeft = 0# .TextFrame.MarginRight = 0# .TextFrame.MarginTop = 0# .TextFrame.MarginBottom = 0# .Fill.Visible = msoTrue .Fill.Solid .Fill.ForeColor = i * 3000 .Fill.Transparency = 0# .Line.Transparency = 0# .Line.Visible = msoTrue If i / 2 = i \ 2 Then .Line.DashStyle = msoLineSolid .Line.Style = msoLineSingle .Line.Weight = 5 Else .Line.DashStyle = msoLineSquareDot .Line.Style = msoLineSingle .Line.Weight = 2 End If .Line.Style = msoLineSingle .Line.ForeColor = 1500000 - (i * 2000) End With With Selection.Font If i / 2 = i \ 2 Then .NameAscii = "Arial" Else .NameAscii = "Comic Sans" End If .Size = 10 + i \ 2 .Bold = True .Italic = False .Underline = True .UnderlineColor = wdColorAutomatic .StrikeThrough = False .DoubleStrikeThrough = False .Outline = False .Emboss = False .Shadow = False .Hidden = False .SmallCaps = False .AllCaps = False .Color = 2000 + (i * 3500) .Engrave = False .Superscript = False .Subscript = False .Spacing = 0 .Scaling = 100 .Position = 0 .Kerning = 0 .Animation = wdAnimationNone End With ' Center Selection.ParagraphFormat.Alignment = wdAlignParagraphCenter Selection.TypeText Text:="This is Text Box " & i Selection.Collapse Next i End Function Sub Test() ' ' Test Macro ' Macro created 07/12/2004 ' Call DrawTextBoxs(30) End Sub Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 60069
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    - Template macro question withdrawn Sorry, I figured this out from another post, works great. I think I'm getting a book... Thanks, Helen Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 60068
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    - template macro I asked about a macro for making a document open in protected mode, with a custom toolbar showing. The protection macro is working great. So does the toolbar macro, as long as I'm opening the original template file for editing. However, when using File New to create a new document based on the template, the toolbar remains visible or not depending on the last user's setting. Is there a way to force it to be visible in a new document based on the template? Thanks in advance, Helen Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 60067
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    - Insert logo Need a button (vba code) that inserts a logotype in a header (there is a bookmark b in a table). When the logotype is inserted and the user clicks on the button again it should not be inserted again. I also need the button that will remove the picture (logotype) if the user wants to undo the insert button. The documents can contain several pages, but the buttons should insert / remove the logo on the first page only (regardless from where you are in the document). Thanks for any help Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 60065
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    - How can I view or print all the bookmarks in a word document at o. I am using Word 2003 and would like to view or print all the bookmarks in a document at one time. In brief: I use these bookmarks in the code of a audit report automation program (written in VBA for Word) and need to eleminate a document from which the program calls. I would like to use some of the bookmarks in another document and eleminate others. In the past I have had to write each bookmark out on a piece of paper. This method allows room for a lot of errors. There has got to be an easier way! Can any one help? Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 60063
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    - Combining document with disparate styles I'm working on a project where I'm automatically combining two or more documents and I need to apply a consistent font throught the combined document. The problem is that doc A may have a style named X that uses a Helvetica font while doc B will have a style named Y that uses a Times Roman font. I have to apply a common style, but first I need to determine if these styles should be the same or if one is a heading style and the other a body text style. And I also won't know at runtime what styles to expect from the various documents I'll be assembling. Is the only solution to this problem to iterate through all the styles in a given document and do some basic heuristics on the discovered styles? For example, look at the properties of style X and decide if it is a heading style and then change the style a more generic style that is the best fit. Or would it be simpler to just update the font of all styles to use a pre-determined font family? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. TIA -- Peter Bernhardt SharpSense Software LLC peter@SharpBASSense.netURA Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 60062
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    - adding data to an embedded chart dynamically All, I've created a word document that contains an embedded chart (using Insert > Picture > Chart) The chart's layout optin is "In front of text". What I'd like to do change/modify the data in the datasheet of this chart using vba or vbscript, but I don't know how to reference it. I've done the same thing in PowerPoint with this: Set oApp = CreateObject("Powerpoint.Application") Set oPres = oApp.Presentations.Open("C:\Presentation.ppt") Set oSlide = oPres.Slides("slide1") Set oChart = oSlide.Shapes("chart") with (oChart..OLEFormat.Object.Application.DataSheet) .Range("A1").Value = 100 End With But I don't understand the object model of word well enough to do this in Word. I also don't know how to name objects in Word so that I can reference them. Many thanks in advance for any insight or advice! Cheers, Matt Stuehler Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 60060
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    - Merging two documents A friend of mines asked me to help him with this project. We have two separate word documents. MovieTitles.doc and MovieInfo.doc Movietitles is just a document with movie titles formatted as follows: Godfather Speed Matrix etc. MovieInfo contains movie information such as: Godfather A cinematic classic depicting the lives of .... What we'd like to do is open both of these documents behind the scenes. If we have matching titles we want to create a third document that includes the movietitle from movietitles.doc and underneath the title we want to indent and include all of the movieinfo from the movie info from the movieinfo.doc We want the text bold and changed to the color blue. Finally we'd like to save this as a third document. So far they've been doing this manually. in my mind this process is screaming for automation. Any advise with this process is welcome. Thanks in advance. Malik Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 60058
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    - Margins of section xx error message Hi, I am using Word automation to print documents to a PDF driver and on some documents I am having a problem with the "Margins of section x lie outside the printable region". The problem I have is that I only get this on some machines (the ones I need to use!) and not on others. For example on a Win 2K machine with Word 2003 installed I get the error, but if I take the same document to an XP machine with Word 2003 installed the document prints OK to the same PDF driver. Changing to an alternative suppliers PDF driver does not cure the problem. I have tried changing normal.dot do that it is the same on both machines but this has no effect.I have made sure Page Setup has no margins, etc,etc. The PDF drivers are the same on both machines, Word has the same Service Pack level. This is driving me crazy as the production machines for this all need to be Windows 2K. Does anyone know what settings Word takes into account when produciing this message ? From trawling the Newgroups it appears that this helpfull message can not be supressed. Is this correct ? Thanks Iain Hamilton Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 60056
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    - Control Firefox via VBA Hi Is it possible to control Firefox 1.0 via Word-VBA? I wrote some neat tools for the IE using MSHTML and SHDocVw which I want to make it also work with Firefox, especially because of its tabbed browsing. I have allready googled through the net but I couldn't find a Module or library to bind into Word-VBA. Anyone out ther who has a clue? thx Itekt Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 60055
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    - word document I am using windows 98SE Plus and recieved an email attachment that is word document but everytime i go to open it it tells me that it has performed an illegal operation and must close. How do i remedy this problem Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 60049
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    - BREAK & CONTINUE... Hi All I am using Msword 2003 and its VBA Q1 : Could you please let me know how can i use continue statement as in VB .? Also,i have used several tab options in a multi page control and want to traverse through all the contols present in that multipage. Q2 :How can i traverse thorugh all the controls in the multipage in one go.? I could only get the "controls " property with the frame control, to use. Thanks for help. Alok. Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 60038
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    - Split Directory\filename into two variables In my macro a user selects a filename using: With Dialogs(wdDialogFileOpen) If .Display Then strSourceFile = WordBasic.FilenameInfo$(.Name, 1) End If End With I want to split strSourceFile into a directory part, and a filename part. I've done this before by starting at the left most point of a string, then backing up one character untill a backslash is found, but I think there is probably something all ready built into VBA to do this. Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 60036
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    - wdSaveChanges doesn't work I am using ActiveDocument.Close SaveChanges:=wdSaveChanges But I still get a prompt asking me to save changes. Any help would be nice. Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 60029
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    - Wild Card Search II Helmut, et al, Sorry for reposting this, but the initial post is around 2-3 weeks old and buried. I was afraid it wouldn't get any attention. Here it is: Helmut, Hi, I am sorry this is so delayed, but I got caught up in some other work before I could test the macro you supplied me. When I run the macro, it gives me an error that says, the Find What contains a Pattern Match that is not a valid Expression. Do you know what this means or why I am getting this error? Here is the code clipped from the larger macro: ResetSearch With Selection .ExtendMode = False .HomeKey unit:=wdStory With Selection .ExtendMode = False .HomeKey unit:=wdStory With .Find .Text = "(^13)([A-z]{1;}.[^32^s^t]{1;})([!^13]{1;})" .Replacement.Text = "\1\3" .MatchWildcards = True ' define formatting .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll End With End With TIA, Jason L Helmut Weber <elmkqznfwvccbf@mailinator.com> wrote in message news:<agosp0l7nsg9kphkv1dbag2am70mkvbj5a@4ax.com>... > Hi Jason, > keep on! > > With Selection.Find > > .Text = " [ A-z].[^32^s^t]@" > > .Replacement.Text = "1/^+" > hm..., doesn't make any sense to me. > The 1/ should probably be \1, but would require an expression > inclosed in parenthesis (). Apart from other complications, > and apart from the fact, that wildcardsearch needs quite a bit > of a trial and error approach, (and some things simply don't work), > here is what i've figured out: > Search for a paragraph starting with some letters followed by "." > (^13)([A-z]{1,}.) > Paragraph would be expression \1 later. > Instead of {1,} one should be able to use @, but doesn't work here. > Include whitespace after ".": > (^13)([A-z]{1;}.)([^32^s^t]{1,}) > Again, ^w for whitespace doesn't work, therefore [^32^s^t]{1,}. > As the characters and the whitespace can be grouped together, > we arrive at: > (^13)([A-z]{1,}.[^32^s^t]{1,}) > Now we got to search until the paragraphs end. > That would be one ore more characters, that are not chr(13). > ([!^13]{1,}) > All together it could look like: > "(^13)([A-z]{1,}.[^32^s^t]{1,})([!^13]{1,})" > So we got 3 expressions, > expression1 is the preceding paragraph mark, which we leave untouched, > expression2 is > the letters following, plus the period plus the whitespace > expression3 is the remainder. > Follows > .Replacement.Text = "\1\3" > which means "cut off expression \2". > Apply the formatting to the result. > Here is my test macro, which could be improved by using > range instead of selection, and in some more ways, I guess. > Sub Test661() > ResetSearch > With Selection > .ExtendMode = False > .HomeKey unit:=wdStory > With .Find > .Text = "(^13)([A-z]{1;}.[^32^s^t]{1;})([!^13]{1;})" > .Replacement.Text = "\1\3" > .MatchWildcards = True > ' define formatting > .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceOne ' for testing > End With > End With > ResetSearch > End Sub > Public Sub ResetSearch() > With Selection.Find > .ClearFormatting > .Replacement.ClearFormatting > .Text = "" > .Replacement.Text = "" > .Forward = True > .Wrap = wdFindContinue > .Format = False > .MatchCase = False > .MatchWholeWord = False > .MatchWildcards = False > .MatchSoundsLike = False > .MatchAllWordForms = False > .Execute > End With > End Sub > HTH > Greetings from Bavaria, Germany > Helmut Weber, MVP > "red.sys" & chr(64) & "t-online.de" > Word XP, Win 98 > http://word.mvps.org/ Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 60022
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    - InsertFile method leaves certain text out after insertion. I am using the InsertFile method to insert the contents of a text file into a Word document, like so: .Selection.InsertFile TextFileName, Range:="", _ ConfirmConversions:=False, link:=False, _ attachment:=False I have found that certain text is left out after insertion by Word, e.g. "+/-". When I try the insert file command from Word itself, a confirm conversion box will pop up, and allow me to force a "Plain text" conversion, which in turn leaves in the missing text after insertion. However, I cannot find a way to force this programmatically. Wd 2k, '03; Win XP, 2000 Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks. Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 60019
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    - VBA Checkbox Problem I am dynamically creating checkboxes at runtime and trying to set the bookmark name. However, it will not allow me to set the new checkbox. I have tried dynamically changing the name of the bookmark, deleting it, and renaming. Nothing seems to work. Any help or work around would be appreciated Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 60016
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    - autoexec error I getting an error when I start MS word or Ms excel that the hidden macro Autoexec has an error. Can someone tell me how to get rid of this error. I can't find an autoexe macro. Thank Mark Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 60015
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    - Text Selection with VBA Hello, I am new to VBA in Word and I was wondering if=20 someone could help me please! I have a string in a Word document that I want to copy=20 from Word and then copy to an Excel worksheet. But the=20 string has a hard return at the end of it. So how do I=20 copy from the beginning of the string to the hard return?=20 I know the position in the document that the string starts=20 at but I do not know how to copy only to the carriage=20 return. For examle, when you select "Show/Hide =B6" to Show=20 it looks like: 125 North Street=B6 How do I use VBA to select only up to the hard return? I=20 hope this makes sense. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 60011
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    - alphabetize mail merge I am developing a mail merge catalog in Word and using a query in Access as my data source. The table that the query references in Access is alphabetized by last name, the query in Access is alphabetized by last name, but the mail merge catalog prints in the order that the records were entered, rather than alphabetical order. How can I get the mail merge catalog to print in alphabetical order? Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 60007
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    - Range Object positioning trouble Hi everybody! I've got some troubles, working with Range: Here is a code context: .. Call Word.ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Add("A" & CStr(iter), Word.ActiveDocument.Range(bmStart, bmStop)) .. bmStart and bmStop are changing from 0 to ActiveDocumet.Characters.Count, and mark parts of the document with different formatting. For the majority of test documents that works perfectly: I get Bookmark from Character # bmStart (incl) to Character # bmStop (incl), but for the moment I've got a document, for which from the very beginning of the document it works as Range from Character # (bmStart - 1) (incl) to Character # (bmStop - 1) (incl). Any specific features about this very document I've not found. Why could it be? Thanks, Alex Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 60002
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    - Lock module sperately Hi, I am using modules in wod vba project. I want to lock project code & module which is inside the project in seperate password. Does this possible. IF so , may I have any solution. Currently If I unlock project user can access any modules, but I want to restrict acess to each module by password. Thanks & Regards Naveen Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 60000
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    - Let there be an option for ignore once for spelling mistakes When i'm writing somethign in Word and i make a mistake then there should be an option to ignore once. The only option when i right click is to ignore all. I think there should be an option to ignore once. It owuld also help because if someone accidently clicks it then they can easily fix it where as if they accidently click ignore all then they ahve to search the document for all the words they mis spelt. Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 59999
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    - How to handle add-in clash I've just discovered that a template I distribute is clashing with Acrobat 6. When someone who has installed Acrobat 6 and its Word add-in creates a document based on my template, all is fine. But when that user saves the document, and then reopens it, my menu doesn't display, even tho I have code in my auto-open routine to display the menu if it isn't on the menu bar. When such users disable the Acrobat add-in, all is fine. So there's clearly a clash with something Acrobat is doing, but I don't know what that is. Question: is the appropriate way to handle this clash to have my autoopen function unload the Acrobat add-in, or is there some better way to handle this? thanks, gary Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 59998
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    - >> Macro buttons Hi, I have a template the includes two macro buttons, each with code. The idea is that a user will choose one button to remove content. When a new document is created from the template there is no code for each of these buttons. When I check the template the code still exists for these buttons. How can I set up this template so that these buttons actually have code? Any ideas or suggestions appreciated :-) Cheers Jonathan Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 59996
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    - List template funkiness in Word 2003 At work, we are in the process of switching from Office 2000 to Office 2003. Part of that process is making sure that all of the macro solutions we use with Word will operate correctly under Office 2k3. Problem is, they don't and I can't quite figure out why. Here's the setup... Originally started in Word 97, we have a set of macros that provide the user with a choice of templates to use with their documents. These templates all have different body text styles, heading styles, TOC styles, outline numbering styles, etc. The users have the ability to switch templates from a drop down menu in a toolbar and all of the styles in their document will change accordingly. It was tought to get it so that the numbering would change correctly, but we finally got it working and it's worked fine now for 2+ years. Under Word 2k3, however, not everything works the way it should. Specifically, the outline numbering associated with the heading styles does not switch when the user selects a different template. Or rather, it switches properly sometimes, other times it doesn't switch at all or switches to an incorrect numbering style. When we set up the templates and styles, we defined the outline numbering through the style definition rather than through the Numbers and Bullets dialog because everything I'd found on the net said to avoid the latter and just define the numbering as part of my styles. After some tweaking and banging my head against my desk, I actually got it to work quite well. My question is this: Did something change internally that might affect this process? It works fine in Word 97 and Word 2000, but falls to pieces in Word 2003. I remember having to code around problems when we moved to 2k, so maybe there's some change I'll have to account for in 2k3? Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 59994
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    - Sorry!!! My previous post was posted on the wrong group. I had the wrong group selected when I created the message and didn't pay attention. Sorry! Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 59993
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    - Print a picture Box Image Dear Group I have created a scrollable picture in my application, ie a picture box as a member of another picture box, a couple of scroll bars and now I have a scrollable bitmap image larger than my screen. I would now like to be able to print it but the only example of how to do this is Q230502 - How To Print a Form That Is Too Large for the Screen or Page. By following this example with my setup picture box within picture box, I can only print the visible area and not the entire picture. When I follow the example in the exercise it works, however the picture boxes are separate and not with one as a member of another. Can I print the entire bitmap image in my setup? The article states that: Because the PictureBox's bitmap is stored in a device context in memory, you have access to the entire bitmap regardless of what is displayed. Is this still true in my current setup? If it is not possible can the group think of a workaround? Thanks again... Kagsy Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 59992
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    - Serial numbering of documents in a networked environment I would like to know the recommended method of inserting an automatic "serial" number in a document. An example of this would be a company-wide outgoing fax serial number. I realize that it is rather big, in the sense that it could include many issues (what kind of field should be used, how do we keep the user from altering it and so on). Since I have a background in DOS programming, I am primarily interested in the file functions and locking mechanism necessary to save and retrieve the serial number from an external file, since we are operating in a networked environment. Any help is welcome. Thanks in advance. Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 59991
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    - How do I convert a file from MS-DOS Works? My husband has his client christmas card label list on a floppy that I think was saved from an extremely old version of Works. It is set up in fields, and so far I've been able to access the names and addresses in only the vertical 'field' format. How can I convert this file so that the correct tabs will apply? Thanks Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 59989
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    - Returning selected shape from within drawing canvas I'm trying to determine the name of the currently selected shape within a drawing canvas, but all I get is the name of the canvas itself. MsgBox Selection.ShapeRange.Item(1).Name MsgBox Selection.Range.ShapeRange(1).Name This all returns the name of the drawing canvas, although only one of the shapes within the canvas is selected. MsgBox Selection.ShapeRange(1).CanvasItems(1).Name Returns the name of the first added shape in the canvas and that's not necessarily the currently selected shape. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanx, Fabian. Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 59988
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    - Formatting individual paragraphs in a Cell I'm stuck. I'm writing a few one-line paragraphs into a table cell (actually a label in a word-created blank labels document). All of the text is aligned left. But for a few cells, I want to add an additional one-line paragraph that's aligned right and italicized. But whatever I try ends up formatting the whole cell as right aligned and italicized. I want the label to look sorta like this: First Name Last Name Address Department Specialty Text Does anyone know a way to format the last paragraph of a cell without it affecting the whole cell? Here's my latest attempt that still didn't work. Dim rng As Range Set rng = ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Cell(nRow, nColumn).Range With rng .InsertAfter "Specialty Text" .Previous wdParagraph .Expand wdParagraph .Font.Italic = True .Select .ParagraphFormat.Alignment = wdAlignParagraphRight End With Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 59987
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    - Can't use word wrap in Word 2000 macros When I try to use the "Record New Macro" system in WD2000 to change an in-line picture to be text-wrapped, the text wrapping options in the picture formating dialog are grayed out. There is a tech note that describes a similar problem (WD2000: Unable to Record Macro for Inline-to-Floating Picture Conversion; Article ID : 209800)that says the work around is to select the picture, cut it, then paste-special as a picture, then select it and change the wrap option. This doesn't work (at least not in Word 2000 on Wuindows 2000). Is there a work around or a way to actually code this in the macro editor? Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 59978
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    - Macro for opening I want to write a macro that will cause two things to happen when that specific document is opened, no matter how a previous user left it. I want a certain custom toolbar to be visible, and the document to open in protected mode. Any ideas? My brain is turning to rubber here... Thanks! Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 59973
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    - Calling Otherproject.Sub from Normal.ThisDocument Two questions, really. I've got my macros in "MyMacros.dot" startup template. But I need some of them in my Normal.ThisDocument Document_New/Open/Close routines. Haven't been able to call them out of the MyMacros project with any variation of syntax ([MyMacros.vbp].[Utils].DoSomething). So, I've had to copy some of them over to a local module in Normal which seems kind of silly and redundant. Is that because you just can't call out of project from ThisDocument or because I just don't know how to do it? (sorry 'bout the cross post but traffic is light over in my beginner corner) -- Poseur "That's just kooky talk." --Kramer Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 59972
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    - Delete VBA code in runtime Hi, I have the below code in ThisModule of severel templates. It calls and add-in that do some stuff..... Now I would like the finished documents to be without code in ThisModule, so that when a user mails the documents to a customer or.... the documents will not be stopped in AntiVirus systems, that does not allow VBA code. Can I delete all the code in ThisModule in run-time ? Thanks, Flemming ----- Private Const msNAME As String = "EN.dot" Private msFullFileName As String Private Sub Document_New() ' Code ' Code 'DELETE IT ALL........ End Sub Private Function FileExists(ByRef sFullPathAndFileName As String) As Boolean ' Returns True if the file exists FileExists = CBool(Len(Dir(sFullPathAndFileName))) End Function Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 59968
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    - adding bookmarks stop without message why I have a document directory that consists of word documents and a table of contents that relate to those documents. So I thought I would create bookmarks as they relate in the table of contents. Then create adobe acrobat pdf from that. Well I had to modify the bookmarks with _ and some search fields. So I massage them with c language. The following code works with the files I created with C language. The problem is that I can only create 9 bookmarks and the program finishes prematurely without giving me a message why. When I check out in word 2000 with inserting bookmarks I find the 9 bookmarks there but the dropdown box v isn't available. It can't add more bookmarks .I also tried this code also : "ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.ShowHidden = True For Each aBookmark In ActiveDocument.Bookmarks If Left(aBookmark.Name, 1) = "_" Then MsgBox aBookmark.Name Next aBookmark It ends up with the same unfilled record count. I know that there is at least 12 more _ items to add with the above code by dies with just 9 records. There is nothing wrong with files I've create Heres my code below Do While Not EOF(1) Line Input #1, searchstring Line Input #2, bookmarkfield Set MyRange = ActiveDocument.Content MyRange.Find.Execute findText:=searchstring, Forward:=True If MyRange.Find.Found = False Then Exit Do ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.ShowHidden = True ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Add Name:=bookmarkfield, Range:=MyRange ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.ShowHidden = True Rem MyRange.Bookmarks(counter).Add Name:=bookmarkfield ActiveWindow.View.ShowBookmarks = True primenumber = 0 counter = counter + 1 Loop offset = offset + 1 Close #1 Close #2 Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 59963
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    - adding bookmarks stop without message why have a document directory that consists of word documents and a table of contents that relate to those documents. So I thought I would create bookmarks as they relate in the table of contents. Then create adobe acrobat pdf from that. Well I had to modify the bookmarks with _ and some search fields. So I massage them with c language. The following code works with the files I created with C language. The problem is that I can only create 9 bookmarks and the program finishes prematurely without giving me a message why. When I check out in word 2000 with inserting bookmarks I find the 9 bookmarks there but the dropdown box v isn't available. It can't add more bookmarks .I also tried this code also "ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.ShowHidden = True For Each aBookmark In ActiveDocument.Bookmarks If Left(aBookmark.Name, 1) = "_" Then MsgBox aBookmark.Name Next aBookmark " It ends up with the same unfilled record count. I know that there is at least 12 more _ items to add with the above code by dies with just 9 records. There is nothing wrong with files I've create Do While Not EOF(1) Line Input #1, searchstring Line Input #2, bookmarkfield Set MyRange = ActiveDocument.Content MyRange.Find.Execute findText:=searchstring, Forward:=True If MyRange.Find.Found = False Then Exit Do ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.ShowHidden = True ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Add Name:=bookmarkfield, Range:=MyRange ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.ShowHidden = True Rem MyRange.Bookmarks(counter).Add Name:=bookmarkfield ActiveWindow.View.ShowBookmarks = True primenumber = 0 counter = counter + 1 Loop offset = offset + 1 Close #1 Close #2 End Sub Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 59962
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    - Maximum Doc Var's Hi Could you please let me know "THE MAXIMUM NO. OF DOCVARIABLE THAT A WORD2003 CAN STORE" Thanks Alok Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 59961
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    - How do I use alphabetic outline numbering with international chara I would like to use a list in my documents and use an alphabetic outlined numbering but not with the once word has as default. Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 59958
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    - Class Module for Save Events Word 2000 I've been experimenting with my first class module. Here's what I have: Class Module ========== Public WithEvents App As Word.Application Private Sub App_DocumentBeforeSave(ByVal Doc As Document, SaveAsUI As Boolean, Cancel As Boolean) If ActiveDocument.Name = "Locates.doc" Then SaveDocument End Sub Private Sub SaveDocument() ThisDocument.SaveFile End Sub Standard Module ============ Dim X As New clsSaveEvent Private Sub Document_Open() InitializeSaveEvent End Sub Sub InitializeSaveEvent() Set X.App = Word.Application End Sub Sub SaveFile() < Some code > End Sub So the event gets initialized when the document is opened. Each time a save event occurs the code in the class module runs, and if the document name is "Locates.doc" then SaveDocument, and finally SaveFile are called. This seems to work rather well, but being a class module newbie, I have several questions. I hope no one minds that I'm piling all these questions into one message, but they are all related to the same issue, so I figured that it would be easier this way. 1) The event works at the application level, and I want it to run only in a specific document, which is why I have the App_DocumentBeforeSave routine testing for the document name. I tried putting Set X.App = Word.ActiveDocument in the InitializeSaveEvent routine with Public WithEvents App As Word.Document in the class module. No errors occur with these lines in place, but at the same time, nothing appears to happen when I save the document. Is there a way to make this work only at the document level? 2) The event gets initialized when the document is opened, but I've noticed that after changing code in the module, I often need to initialize the event again. It makes sense that if the code in the event is changed, you'd have to reinitialize the event. However, is it possible that other changes, such as changes to the document or template, might also require the event to be reinitialized? 3) My experience with forms in Access, Excel, and Word have taught me that it's easy to end up with looping code when using before and after events, and that makes me a little leery here. What are the drawbacks, if any, of using the App_DocumentBeforeSave? 4) While the code above basically works, there is an annoyance that I have yet to solve. Say that the user does a Save As. The code will run as expected, but when the code completes the Save As dialog box will be displayed. I don't want that because I'm trying to control how the document gets saved, and I don't want the user to be able to change the name or the location of the file. Is there a way to prevent the Save As dialog box from being displayed (I read in the Help that the return value for the Cancel button is 0, and I thought maybe that could somehow be used to suppress the Save As dialog box, but I'm not sure how that would work)? 5) This is somewhat related to question 4. Is there a way to disable the Save As option in a specific document (not application-wide)? Any information that you may be able to provide will be greatly appreciated. -- Tom State of Montana Department of Justice Help Desk "Making the world a safer place." Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 59956
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    - Highlighting bookmark text I am working on a macro that will get info from the user and insert it at a bookmark in the document text. If the user doesn't enter info, I want to provide reminder text for later editing (but I don't want this to appear as default text in the input box), AND I'd like to highlight the reminder text. Sample code is: ' Get the mailing and receipt dates from the user; MailDate1 = InputBox(MailMsg & Doc1) ' If no user input, define and format help text If MailDate1 = "" Then MailDate1 = "ENTER MAILING DATE" End If ' Go to the bookmark and enter the date .Bookmarks("Mail1").Range _ .InsertAfter MailDate1 Is there a way to easily highlight the help text without doing a find/replace or similar action? Thanks much in advance. Enjoy your weekend! Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 59951
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    - Deleting all Instances of Captions I have tried the attached which I had found on a recent search of this group but it does not seem to delete all the captions but rather hangs up at "for each acap in activedocument" stating that this object does not support this property or method. I am trying to delete all inline shapes and their corresponding captions from a document - I have figured out the inline shape bit but the caption part is a problem. Any ideas would be welcome. Dim acap As CaptionLabel For Each acap In ActiveDocument acap.Delete Next acap Thanks David Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 59949
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    - Problem building a COM Add-in for Word 2003 Folks, After building a VBA macro for Word 2003, I want to convert it to a COM Add-in so I can distribute it. I do not know if this is the correct group in which to post this question, but I'll start here. I followed the excellent example, "Converting Microsoft Office VBA Macros to Visual Basic .NET and C#," which I found at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnofftalk/html/office11072002.asp This shows how to build a COM Add-in for PowerPoint. I followed the example and it works like a charm. But when I do the same thing to build a COM Add-in for Word, it is never activated. I set a breakpoint at the OnConnection subroutine and the code never breaks. It's one of those things that makes me go "hmmm....." Any help would be appreciated, including a suggestion for the proper group in which to ask this in the event that this is not the proper one. /Joel Finkel finkel@sd-il.com Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 59947
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    - summarise document contents Dear Group How in Word can I loop through a document and get the dimensions and position of every object on the page, be it paragraph, rectangle, line, etc. I can loop through text and paragraphs as below, but I need all objects on a page. Dim para As Paragraph For Each para In ActiveDocument.Paragraphs **** Next What I really want is the Left, Top, Height and Width of the object and the TypeOf object it is. I have over 50 documents of 5 or more pages looking like forms (30 Boxes and lines) that I want all the measurements so I can take these measurements and create the same objects in a VB form. My aim is to create a converter. I fully appreciate that the same objects do not exist in VB so I will use CreateControl to create the comparable desired objects. I realise this is a mammoth project but I would appreciate any pointers from the group as to where to start. Please help whilst I still have some hair! Alastair MacFarlane Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 59946
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    - Format Text Box Before outputting it New to VBA for word though I have some experience in VBA for Access. I want to place formatted text boxes on a document . If I use something like Sub DrawTextBox() ActiveDocument.Shapes.AddTextbox _ (msoTextOrientationHorizontal, 100, 100, 100, 80).Select Selection.ShapeRange.Select With Selection.ShapeRange .TextFrame.MarginLeft = 0# .TextFrame.MarginRight = 0# .TextFrame.MarginTop = 0# .TextFrame.MarginBottom = 0# .Fill.Visible = msoTrue .Fill.Solid .Fill.ForeColor = RGB(255, 0, 0) .Fill.Transparency = 0# .Line.Transparency = 0# .Line.Visible = msoTrue .Line.DashStyle = msoLineSquareDot .Line.Weight = 5 .Line.Style = msoLineSingle .Line.ForeColor = wdBlue End With With Selection.Font .NameAscii = "Arial" .Size = 16 .Bold = True .Italic = False .Underline = True .UnderlineColor = wdColorAutomatic .StrikeThrough = False .DoubleStrikeThrough = False .Outline = False .Emboss = False .Shadow = False .Hidden = False .SmallCaps = False .AllCaps = False .Color = RGB(0, 0, 0) .Engrave = False .Superscript = False .Subscript = False .Spacing = 0 .Scaling = 100 .Position = 0 .Kerning = 0 .Animation = wdAnimationNone End With ' Center Selection.ParagraphFormat.Alignment = wdAlignParagraphCenter Selection.TypeText Text:="This is a Text Box" Selection.Collapse End Sub The problem is that each bit of formatting takes place sequentially, and outputting 50 or 100 text boxes takes a few minutes to complete I feel there should be a way of defining the text box properties BEFORE Adding it to the document Something like (I know none of this works) Dim MyTextBox as TextBox With MyTextBox .Fill.Visible = msoTrue .Fill.Solid .Fill.ForeColor = RGB(255, 0, 0) .Fill.Transparency = 0# .Line.Transparency = 0# .Line.Visible = msoTrue .Line.DashStyle = msoLineSquareDot .Line.Weight = 5 .Line.Style = msoLineSingle .Line.ForeColor = wdBlue End With Set MyTextBox = ActiveDocument.Shapes.AddTextbox _ (msoTextOrientationHorizontal, 100, 100, 100, 80) This seems to work as another alternative UNTIL I get to trying to output it to the document Public Type MyTextBox ' Create user-defined type. FillColour As Long ' Define elements of data type. BorderColour As Long BorderWidth As Integer ForeColour As Long End Type Function CreateTextBox() Dim MTB As MyTextBox ' Declare variable. Dim MyDocument As Document Dim MyTB As TextFrame Dim TextBox1 As Shape Dim NewShape As Shape With MTB .BorderColour = wdBlack .BorderWidth = 6 .FillColour = RGB(255, 0, 0) .ForeColour = wdWhite End With ??????????????? Output Thanks for any help Phil Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 59941
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    - modify calendar wizard Word 2000 (9.0.6926 SP-3). How can I modify the default font in calendar wizard for the Days of the week and the numbers for the days. I also want to set the default to left justify the numbers of the days. Tag: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length Tag: 59939

Right now I can copy text to a temp .txt file, then insert it into the
new template. Basically everything between the words "Procedure:" and
"Comments \ Suggestions" needs to be copied. The way I have it setup
now works okay, but all the hard returns and tabs get screwy Lewie.
The number of lines and paragraphs will differ between files.

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RE: Copying certain text from .doc file with variable length by StephenEnglish

StephenEnglish
Thu Dec 09 01:09:01 CST 2004

Hi Bill
Why do you need to copy it to a .txt file as an intermediate step. Can't
you go from one Word document to another?
HTH
Stephen

"bill_campbell@bcbsmt.com" wrote:

> Right now I can copy text to a temp .txt file, then insert it into the
> new template. Basically everything between the words "Procedure:" and
> "Comments \ Suggestions" needs to be copied. The way I have it setup
> now works okay, but all the hard returns and tabs get screwy Lewie.
> The number of lines and paragraphs will differ between files.
>
>

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