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    - Updating Macro in footer I have a macro set up that updates the document version, this is also displayed in the footer of the document but when the macro is run it doesn't automatically update the version number and I have to manually update the field. How do I change this so all the version number instances update when the macro is run? Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44895
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    - Connection String Problem The code below works on, say, 99 out of 100 machines, regardless of the version of Word. I suspect a DLL is missing on the target machine, or a flaw in my code. We are not allowed to distribute DLL files or in any other way change a user's machine. The code below opens a text file (SBAOffices.txt) and parses through to populate a combobox. Dir checks to see if the file exists. It does. strDB is the Temp or Templates directory. The code fails on rs.Open. Record count is 0. Any ideas or comments to help with the thought process would be appreciated. Thanks! Dan ========================== Count = 0 If Dir(strDestination, vbNormal) <> "" Then 'Get count of records in file If strDB = "" Then strDB = ActiveDocument.AttachedTemplate.Path End If Set rs = CreateObject("ador.recordset") strConnect = _ "Driver={Microsoft Text Driver (*.txt; *.csv)};" & _ "DefaultDir=" & strDB & ";" & Chr(34) rs.Open "Select * from " & strTable & " order by ST, Name", strConnect, adOpenStatic Count = rs.RecordCount If Count = 0 Then GoTo ErrorOfficesList End If ReDim OfficeList(Count, 7) '14 columns in SBAOffices.txt ' Access and read Text file Do Until rs.EOF For Each fld In rs.Fields If fld = Empty Then Else ... ========================== Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44893
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    - InsertAdres-command / choise af the standard addressbook When I use the word-command "InsertAddress" , I have to choose each time in a list from wich Outlook-Addressbook of our Company I want to pick the address from The settings made in OUTLOOK itself (like "show this addresslist first ..." ) seems not influencing the Word-command The question is if there is a way to declare that the (public) address book of our Division becomes the standard addressbook in Word Thanks in advance, paul (working with WORD 2000 SR1 and OUTLOOK 2000 SR1) Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44883
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    - Adding Item to ComboBox Hi Friends, I am working on an application in VB6.0 which creates Word document on the fly. I have added a ComboBox control to the page, but I am not able to add the individual ListItems to this Combo Box. I am not getting any run time errors, but when I open the created document it doesn't show me any Item in the ComboBox. Following is the code I am trying. Set MyInLineShape = MyTable.Cell(1, 1).Range.InlineShapes.AddOLEControl("Forms.ComboBox.1") MyInLineShape.OLEFormat.object.Style = 2 MyInLineShape.OLEFormat.object.AddItem "Item 1" MyInLineShape.OLEFormat.object.AddItem "Item 2" MyInLineShape.OLEFormat.object.AddItem "Item 3" MyInLineShape.OLEFormat.object.AddItem "Item 4" Kindly Help, Thanks and Regards, Nik Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44881
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    - Screen Updating Word 2000 I have a set a macros that do a lot of text selections in the document. When the macros run, all the activity in the document makes the screen flash. I've been working with Application.ScreenUpdating, and that works well with some of the macros. However, with other macros it doesn't work as well. One macro in particular is started with one block of text selected, and ends with a different block of text selected. Application.ScreenUpdating = False has little impact on how much the screen flashes during this macro. Are there any tips or tricks that can be used to make the screen flash less? --Tom Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44878
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    - Macro to convert hyperlinks to Word97/2000 Format Hi there I have about 80 MS Word documents created in Word 2003 that contain hyperlinks to other files within the same directory tree. The hyperlinks work perfectly well on my PC (WinXP and Off2003), but most of the users accessing the documents (and using the hyperlinks to navigate around) are using Windows 95 with Office 97. These users are unable to follow the hyperlinks. The reason is well documented in MS Knowledge Base article 329835 (entitled "Problems with Hyperlinks in Office XP Documents You Open with Earlier Versions of Office"). Now I would like to convert all the forward slashes in the hyperlinks to backslashes, so that users of all versions of Office and Windows can navigate without encountering errors. However, even though I manually edit the hyperlink in Word 2003 and replace the / with \ when saving the document, the path is stored in the new format (i.e. using the forward slash instead of the backslash character). I have also tried Alt-F9 and the Edit/Replace feature, but even this does not work. Does anyone have any idea how I can convert (preferably using a macro) all the hyperlinks so that they work for all versions of Office since Office 97? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance. Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44871
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    - Monitor clipboard...... Hi Folks, Does anyone know how to monitor the clipboard for data? Lets say for the sake of an example its a string of format; xxxxxxxxxxxx (where x = a 10 digit number) name (where name = a given name) Cheers -Al Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44870
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    - Equivilent of Application.GetOpenFilename In Excel I used the following to get the user to browse for a filename (full path) stfilename = Application.GetOpenFilename _ ("Excel Files (*.xls),", 2, "Select File to Paste Path", , False) In word is there a way to do the same thing? That is get the user to browse for a file and then select it so I can attached that file to an email? Simon. Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44861
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    - Find, then loop with Find Next? I've got a Selection.Find inside a loop. If Find.Found = True, I've got five other IFs that the selection must meet before I can take action. Somewhere in this mess, I've got to say Found = True, but it fails the other conditions, so go find the next one and check it until Found = False. I'm having trouble wrapping my brain around this one - any help or examples are appreciated. Ed Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44854
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    - client coordinates in word application given screen coordinates Can anyone tell me how I can get the client coordinates in a word application for given screen coordinates using VB programming Jayashri Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44848
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    - Tables Is there a way to determine the row and column for the cell the cursor is currently residing in Thanks Phil Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44847
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    - Restricted area text input in Word? Hi, Is it possible to restrict the total length of text input over a certain area with VBA? The length from Begin to End is fixed, let's asume 2 pages. The area's 1, 2, 3 are dynamical of size but restricted by the total lengt of Begin - End. Begin----- start area 1----- ----------- start area 2 ---- ----------- start area 3 ---- ------------------------End Is it possible to maintain this with VBA? TIA, Marcel Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44846
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    - Splitting a doc after break lines Hello, I have a doc file with 50 lyrics of songs.I would like to have one .doc per song. A break line appears after each song. I can't figure how to make the macro taking the text till the next break line, cutting it and pasting and saving it in a new document (having the name of the 1st line ie the song's title). Thanks if you can help. Nicolas Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44844
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    - tab order Hi Folks, I have a number of frames in my dialog box. Each textbox in each frame seems to reset the tab order. ie: ___________FRAME 1_____________ [1] [2] [3] <-textboxes tab order 1,2,3, __________FRAME 2______________ [LISTBOX] <- no tab order _________FRAME 3________________ [4] [5] <-textboxes order 4,5 [OK 5] <- ok btn tab order 6 __________________________________ Anyone know about this? Cheers -Al Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44842
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    - MSWord 2000 I have a macro that allows me to grab what I need from the end of a line of text. After grabbing this, my cursor is at the end of the line. What I want to do is highlight the entire line to the leftmost character and delete the entire line. I can't use count:=n, because n is always a different number of chars I tried using Selection.MoveLeft Unit:=wdline, Count:=1, Extend=wdExtend this did not work, only gave me an error on 'wdLine' Please point me in the direction to solve this puzzle. Your help is much appreciated. ps I really want to delete the entire line and then 3 empty lines above it. I know I can use Selection.Type Backspace for each line I want to get rid of, but I thought maybe there is a more efficient way to do this. Your ideas and help make my day ;- ) Joanne Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44836
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    - How to Get File Properties (NOT Document Properties) I'm needing to get the properties (like "Read Only") of a file in the template folder. How can I go about doing that? I've searched Google and the MVP site, but have nothing to show for it. :/ Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44835
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    - Find/replace styles Hello everyone, I am trying to write a macro that replaces automatically old styles with new ones with different names. My problem is that if one of the old styles the macro looks for does not exist in the document, it gives an error message and stops. Help please. Thanks in advance. Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44828
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    - Pasting Selected Text What is the VBA syntax to paste text that is selected in Doc1 into Doc2? How can I error test such that if no text is selected in Doc1, the macro beeps and does nothing else when executed in Doc2? Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44827
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    - Trouble collapsing range to end I've just started working with ranges, so please bear with me. I use Find.Execute to find a text string in a report. If it meets several criteria (including in a table), I set endRange = Selection.End. Then I move up to encompass the table caption, and set wkRange from the start of the caption down to endRange, which should be at the end of my initial Found text string. If another condition is met, I use wkRange.Collapse wdCollapseEnd, which *should* take me back to the end of my initial text string. So Selection.Homekey Line, Extend - which would select backwards from the end of my range to the start of the line - *should* select my original text string. Except ... Stepping through the code, all went perfect until the wdCollapseEnd, apparently. When selected, the text from the range end to beginning of the line was nowhere near what it should have been! In fact, it looked like all I selected was the beginning letter of my table caption, which is at the very start of wkRange - unless I mangled the range when I set it. So - any advice in setting and working with this range set up is greatly appreciated. Also, is there any way to make the range visible as it is set, expanded, or collapsed, so I can see what's happening? Thanks much. Ed *********** Applicable code: ' If found, must be in Col 1 of a table If Selection.Find.Found = True And _ Selection.Information(wdWithInTable) = True And _ Selection.Cells(1).ColumnIndex = 1 Then ' Set range to include caption endRange = Selection.End Selection.Tables(1).Cell(1, 1).Select Selection.MoveUp Unit:=wdParagraph, Count:=3 Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdLine Set wkRange = Selection.Range wkRange.SetRange wkRange.Start, endRange ' Set caption only as range wkRange.Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseStart Selection.EndKey Unit:=wdLine, Extend:=wdExtend Set cRange = Selection.Range ' Check caption for "EFF" With cRange.Find .ClearFormatting .Text = " EFF " .Execute End With If cRange.Find.Found = True Then ' If caption contains "EFF" wkRange.Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseEnd Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdLine, Extend:=wdExtend If Selection.Text = TIR Then ' Cell contains only TIR No. GotIt = True End If End If End If Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44826
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    - No Built-in Document Properties I develop in VC++ and use the MSWORD.OLB to create a set of classes that allow me to interface with word, the same way most people do in VBA, I would guess. However, when I generate the classes using ClassWizard, there does not appear to be a class for the Built-in document Properties. Ther is a method in the Application property to obtain a pointer to that class, but there doesn't seem to be a class created by Class Wizard for that class. Can anyone tell me how to obtain it Thanks Phil Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44820
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    - Macro to remove first 3 lines of doc The recent post re: Replacing selected text with a picture was helpful, but I need to expand that a little to fit my scenario. I have to replace an existing 3 line header with a 3 line header that includes a logo. I have created a bitmap of the header that includes the picture, but how do I remove the existing 3 lines. I know how to replace a single line, but the 3 lines of the header use a different font size than the rest of the document and I need to adjust the font size of the main document without effecting the header. TIA Sallie Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44817
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    - Word not accepting soap call Hi, I've put together from various sources an add-in for word to call a remote soap service, and display the result in a treeview. I followed the example for an creating a com addin via the wizard, and have sucessfully got a nice little button in word that displays the treeview. However, when I press my submit button, nothing comes back. Using the console on my soap server, I can see word has pushed the request, and the soap service has fired the data back. Using a packet sniffer I can see my PC has recieved the data... Before going into code snippets, is there something obvious that I need to do to allow word to do this? I've changed all the macro security down, but is there anything else I need to do? The code all works fine outside of word, btw. Thanks for any help any one can give, Pete Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44816
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    - Table cell attributes Can I programattically get the attributes of each cell of a word table, eg alignment, font, size, colour etc? eg something like the following? Table.Cell(1,1).Font Table.Cell(1,1).Alignment Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44810
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    - FileOpen - dialogbox . change focus? I use a macro to chance directory and the show the File Open dialog box. I want the macro to "focus" on the file-list in the dialog box, and not the file-name-box. (I'm using a norwegian Word - I'm not sure about using the correct english words). I have tried to do this by Send Keys - it doesn't work! All help is appreciated! Torstein This is the part of the macro ChangefileOpendirectory ("C:\test") dialogs(wdDialogFileOpen).show sendkeys "+{TAB}" 'this means SHIFT-TAB I suppose End Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44796
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    - Attached Template We have just upgraded from using Word 2000 running under Winwows 2000 to using Word XP running under Windows XP I have a document that says it has a template of Manifest5SIS.dot and yet when I run the code below, it is telling me that the Attached template is Normal.dot. It worked fine in 2000 This code is stored in a startup template and run from a toolbar button Any ideas please? Stephen On Error GoTo EXITSUB Dim strMsg As String With ActiveDocument If .AttachedTemplate = "Manifest5SIS.dot" Then .AttachedTemplate = _ "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\COS - General\Manifest5.dot" ElseIf .AttachedTemplate = "Manifest4a.dot" Then .AttachedTemplate = _ "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\COS - General\Manifest5.dot" End If If .AttachedTemplate = "Manifest5.dot" Then 'Debug.Print CDate(Application.Run("ReadProp", "ReviewDate")) If CDate(Application.Run("ReadProp", "ReviewDate")) <= Now() Then MsgBox "Click ShowDocProperties to change review date", vbOKOnly, "Check Review Date" End If End If End With Exit Sub EXITSUB: MsgBox "Error", vbOKOnly, "Sorry, I can't complete this task for you" End Sub Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44791
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    - Email a document Hi. I'm using SendMail to add the contents of the current active document to an email body as an attachment and then send it. Problem I have is I can add the attachment but I can't specify a subject line or send address's. Here is what I'm doing: ActiveDocument.SendMail How can I add a subject line, to address's and then send it ? Help please. TIA Chris ------------------------------------------------ ~~ Message posted from http://www.ExcelTip.com/ ~~View and post usenet messages directly from http://www.ExcelForum.com/ Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44790
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    - not all macros are availible when creating a document from a template Hello all! I am having a problem when creating documents from a template I made. Everything works fine when I am in the template. When I create a document from that template everything from the (microsoft word objects) section doesn't carry over to the document. On the other hand the (modules) section carries over with no problem. I am pretty new to this and any help I would greatly appreciate. Thanks, Brian Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44789
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    - Saving changes to the Normal template programatically Greeting Is the there a way to save the changes to the Normal template, programatically. I want to do this because a run macros that change the normal template and i want to save the changes immediately instead of waiting until i close word. Thank you. DZ Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44788
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    - Macro to Discontinue Header & Footer in Doc Hi I'm trying to create a macro that will go to the end of a document, insert a section break, then remove the previous header/footer from the new section, but it's removing the header/footer from the previous section and adding to the new section. Any ideas on how I do this? Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44780
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    - Saving as .rtf I am trying to code my Word Templates so that the SaveAs Dialog box goes to the correct folder and shows only .rtf files... So far I have the following code but it does not show only .rtf files, it only shows .doc files... Arrgghh!! 'Set the initial path to the M:\ drive and Save. Dim fd As FileDialog Set fd = Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogSaveAs) With fd .InitialFileName = "M:\usinput\comserv\*.rtf" .Show End With Unfortunately, our electronic filing program uses only .rtf documents so users need to be prompted to save as .rtf... Cheers Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44772
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    - get WordML version of a doc?? Hello there, I am acutally writing a COM addin for word 2003 but to solve this problem, I've just taken a line of code from my COM project and put it in a vba macro to isolate the problem. Sub Macro1() MsgBox (Application.ActiveDocument.Content.XML) End Sub "Application.ActiveDocument.Content.XML" returns a string that is a WordML version of the doc. This works for most documents, however for some, this causes Word to not respond (seems to do this more often when the doc has tables). It looks like word is saving the document or something because the "saving" progress bar in the lower left hand corner of word appears when this line is executed. Does anyone know anything about this or have any suggestions? Thanks, Marc Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44764
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    - Programmatically add COM reference? Hi, IS there a way to add a reference to a COM library in a word template file in code? The reason I ask is because our application uses a template file that references a COM library that we have built. But, depending on where the COM library is installed (which can change depending on where the user chooses to install our application), it seems as though the word template can only reference this library if it's in the same location. Any other suggestions for accomplishing this would be appreciated as well. Thanks, Adam Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44760
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    - Menu toolbar problem i have a globally mounting template onto which i built a number of drop menu's and distribute it onto anumber of other machines. recently i noticed i had lost a menu so i copied from a previous version i had the menu back into the template. This menu is called general, however when i have loaded it onto another machine i see that the original is still there and the one i copied also. I renamed them both general 1 and genral 2 to see which one was visible on my first machine and saw it was general 2 so i deleted general 1 and replaced the menu on my machine however general 2 dissapeared all the machines use either windows xp or NT 4 with office 97 installed. Anyone any ideas why this one menu should dissapear. Fred Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44758
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    - newbie needs some VBA help I never done VBA programming EVER. but I need to and not sure how to do it. Heres the problem. I have a word template that has a field(s) that allow dollar amounts $0.00. The problem is that sometimes the user can enter a Percentage but if they do that it shows as $0. How can I allow this field to allow percents 4% of dollar amounts %19.99? I know i can change the property format field, but the users like the $ be prefilled. is it even possible to allow a field to allow both? If possible can someone point me to an example or something to help me with this? Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44757
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    - Replacing selected text with a picture? Hello all, I've been trying to find a simple solution to finding variables in a word2k document and then replacingthat variable with an image. *Is* there a simple solution for this that anyone knows of? I came across a rather complex solution that was a page of code and only worked %80 of the time. It isn't even worth posting to try and get fixed. Regards, -Tony Kirk Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44749
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    - Save .doc macro Hi all, Im trying to achieve the following: 1. Create a macro to save a word document in a particular directory (always) but prompting for file name everytime they run this macro. I could get the first part ok. But abt prompting for file name? Following is the macro I created to save the file in a particular directory, but with the same name. I want macro to prompt for file name everytim I run it? Sub TEST1() ' ' TEST1 Macro ' Macro recorded 1/21/2004 by Priya Gurumurthy ' ActiveDocument.SaveAs FileName:="TEST_DOC3.doc", FileFormat:= _ wdFormatDocument, LockComments:=False, Password:="", AddToRecentFiles:= _ True, WritePassword:="", ReadOnlyRecommended:=False, EmbedTrueTypeFonts:= _ False, SaveNativePictureFormat:=False, SaveFormsData:=False, _ SaveAsAOCELetter:=False End Sub thanks in advance Regards Priya Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44747
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    - Changing Word's bookmark characters I have a bunch of templates that make heavy use of bookmarks. I'm trying to make it difficult for the users to accidentally delete them. Is there a way to change the character that Word uses to display a bookmark's start and end position? I would like to make it more visible to the user. I set ShowBookmarks to true so that the users can at least see them. I've also added the code below to the document_new event. Thanks, code: Dim bm As Bookmark, r As Range For Each bm In ActiveDocument.Bookmarks Set r = bm.Range r.Collapse wdCollapseStart r.Text = Chr$(135) r.Font.Color = wdColorRed r.Font.Hidden = True Set r = bm.Range r.Collapse wdCollapseEnd r.Text = Chr$(135) r.Font.Color = wdColorRed r.Font.Hidden = True Next Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44745
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    - Pageorientation and tables Hi, I need a macro to convert, from the cursor location till the end of the document, all the pages from portrait to alndcape (or viceversa) and resize correctly all the tables in the pages. I wrote something like this: ---------------------------------------- Dim rowRow as Row Dim cllCell as Cell Dim lngWidthUsable as Long Dim lngWidthTable as Long Dim tblTable as Table Selection.InsertBreak wdSectionBreakNextPage Selection.Start = Selection.Start + 1 With Selection.Sections(1).Range.PageSetup .Orientation = wdOrientlandscape .SectionStart = wdSectionNewPage .DifferentFirstPageHeaderFooter = false End with With ActiveDocument.PageSetup lngWidthUsable = .PageWidth - .LeftMargin - .RightMargin End With For Each tblTable In Selection.Sections(1).Range.Tables For Each cllCell in tblTable.Rows(1).Cells lngWidthTable = lngWidthTable + cllCell.Width Next cllCell For Each rowRow in tblTable.Rows For Each cllCell In rowRow.Cells cllCell.Width = cllCell.Width * (lngWidthUsable / lngWidthTable) Next cllCell Next rowRow Next tblTable -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I cannot check if this code makes the job because the .PageWidth and .LeftMargin give me a strange 99999 value (while the .RightMargin gives me the correct value). Any hint/idea/help/suggetsion/code? Thanks Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44739
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    - Deleting files and folders I am writing a macro that shall copy files from one source structure to a target structure. Before the files are copied I want to delete all files and folders in the target structure. I use the Kill command to delete the files in a folder and then I use the RmDir command to delete the folder. The Kill command works OK but the RmDir command results in error 75 "Path/File access error". If I restart the macro the folder that is now empty is deleted OK but when trying to delete the next folder, error 75 occurs again. Is there a timing problem here? Is it possible to get any type of confirmation that all files have been deleted Ok before trying to delete the folder? Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44736
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    - Disable Macro Security in a Template Hello I've created a company template in word with a macro to allow users to print their document to a specific network printer. The problem is that by default macro security is set to high, and I have to manually lower that setting for each user that will use this template. Not a good scenario.. My question is whether or not there is an easy way to lower security settings in Word across the network, or whether there is some code I can insert into the template itself telling Word to lower the settings for that document, and then raise them again once the user finishes working with the template I've seen another post about using the ORK and Group Policy to accomplish this, which I'm looking into. We run an Active Directory domain with Win2000 Servers and Win98, Win2K, WinXP clients using Office 2000, Office 2000 Pro, Office XP, Office XP Pro, and I run Office 2003 on my machine Any help is appreciated Thanks Thomas Dietrich Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44731
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    - Template still opens after DOC created? Man, just when you think you are getting to know how to program around WORD, something else happens to show you how little you really know! I created a template (mentioned in another post earlier today) that will be used as a form for travel requests. When I double-click on the template, it opens and I can modify the document then when I close WORD it asks me to save the new document. I do, but then it asks me if I want to save changes to the template too! It shouldn't do this!!!! (Is it b/c I load dropdown data in the NEW and OPEN events?) But, then after WORD is closed, when I open the document I just saved. Make changes, and close it, it again asks me if I want to save changes to the template!??!! I didn't even open the template at this point, it was just the document created from the template! I then opened the document again, and looked in the folder where the files are located, and sure enough, there is a temp WORD file for both the document AND the template! What is going on???? Help please!!! Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44730
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    - Populating dropdown formfield based on another I need to populate a dropdown formfield, based on what is selected in another dropdown. I thought I had it, but something strange is happening now. I populate both fields (Department and Project) via code. The PopulateDepartment subroutine is called from both the Document_New and Document_Open events. Since this form is generated from a template, I figured it needed to be in the NEW event. But since it can also be modified after being created, I put it in the OPEN event also. The data is loaded into the Department field, then I try to set the default values (which is "..."). I enter the data into an array at the top of the PopulateDepartment subroutine, the loop on that data to load it into the dropdown box. The last thing I do is set the .Result value of the formfield to the first value in the array, which is "...". The exit event for this dropdown executes the PopulateProject subroutine, which reads this value and loads the dropdown with the proper data. BUT, when PopulateProject is executed, it always gets the value I loaded into the .Result property, regardless of what was selected in the dropdown field. What am I doing wrong???? Here is how I load the data into the Department dropdown. I assume the problem is here, since all I am doing in PopulateProjects is getting the .Result of the formfield. code:----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- intMax = UBound(mstrDepartment) Set objFormField = Me.FormFields("cboDepartment") With objFormField With .DropDown.ListEntries .Clear For intCnt = 1 To intMax .Add Name:=mstrDepartment(intCnt) Next intCnt End With .Result = mstrDepartment(1) End With ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Now, just b/c I said it and I'm probably wrong, here is some of the code from the LoadProjects subroutine: code:----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- intDepts = UBound(mstrDepartment) Set objFormField = Me.FormFields("cboProject") With objFormField With .DropDown.ListEntries .Clear .Add "..." For intDept = 1 To intDepts If strProject(intDept, 0) = strDept Then For intProj = 1 To 25 If strProject(intDept, intProj) <> "" Then .Add Name:=strProject(intDept, intProj) Else Exit For End If Next intProj End If Next intDept End With .Result = "..." End With ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44729
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    - Checking who sent message How would i check who has sent me a email in VBA? I have tried the Item.Sender but this doesnt work. Thanks Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44727
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    - Office 97 in XP I have just installed XP in place of Win 98. I have also installed MS Office 97. I uploaded my My Documents files from previous When I go into My Documents and open both Word and Excel files, a dialogue box tells me that there is another file of the same name or it is being used by John Lynch, who is my self of course. It appears that the files, even after amendment or creation of new files, are mirrored. For example: opening an Excel file, dialogue box shows: "A document with the same name 'Attendance expected.xls' is already open. You cannot open two documents with the same name even if the documents are in different folders. To open the second document, either close the document that's currently open, or rename one of the documents." Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44726
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    - unresolved references Hello, Is there any good way to scan a document for invalid/broken reference fields (REF) and linked pictures, i.e. they will display "Error! Reference source not found" or, in case of a picture, a broken image will be displayed. Of course it is possible to scan the .Field.Result property for 'Error ...' and check the file existance of linked images, but this seems a bit too laborious. Does Word or VBA have any 'good' and quick way to check this? thanks Ward Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44713
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    - OleFormat Fileds Hello All! I change property of fileds OLEobject . The display OLE of objects has changed, instead of the formula (Equation 3) the reference is displayed {EMBED Equation.3} How to change property of display of object? Thanks. Stas. Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44711
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    - HELP VBA 1004 MISSING IN OFFICE 2003 I use Windows XP and Office 2003 installed (complete installation) on a reinitialized C hard disk ( so there is no trace of Office XP on the C disk, there are .doc or .xls files on the D disk). After reboot, with Word and Excel I get a missing component failure and the program reinstals it, I have no problem after that till I shutdown the PC. After exploration, I think to come across an initialization failure of VBA 1004. How can I solve this annoying bug or feature and have no initialization failure. Thank you in advance for help Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44710
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    - Eula Agreement Every time I start Word it makes me accept the Eula agreement, is there anyway to just accept it once and get it over with? Tag: Forms and Documents Tag: 44706
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I'm stumped! I'm trying to design a document template
that allows the user to put information into a pop-up form
ONCE, so that it can be placed at several locations
throughout the document.

Re: Forms and Documents by Mark

Mark
Fri Jan 23 13:06:33 CST 2004

You want what's called a userform. See
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Userforms/CreateAUserForm.htm

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DB wrote:

> I'm stumped! I'm trying to design a document template
> that allows the user to put information into a pop-up form
> ONCE, so that it can be placed at several locations
> throughout the document.

RE: Forms and Documents by anonymous

anonymous
Fri Jan 23 13:16:05 CST 2004

Hi
Well, what part are you stumped about? Putting the information in several places or only showing the form ONCE

If it is only showing the form once, then you can test for the existence of a DocVariable (bFormShown, for example). If the DocVariable does not exist, then you can show the form and then _create_ the DocVariable. The next time you open this saved document, it tests for the DocVariable, finds it, and, therefore, doesn't show the form

O

You could only allow the form to be displayed during AutoNew

HT
Dave

Re: Forms and Documents by Charles

Charles
Mon Jan 26 17:09:15 CST 2004

You may want to look into the ASK and REF fields.
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See the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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"DB" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I'm stumped! I'm trying to design a document template
> that allows the user to put information into a pop-up form
> ONCE, so that it can be placed at several locations
> throughout the document.