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    - ActivePrinter not working in macro. We've got an application that invokes Word, executes a macro, does a merge with data pulled from a text file extracted from a database, etc, and then prints the merged document to a specific printer. For years we've been having to manually set the Windows default printer on the workstations to use the specific printer that's needed because even though the macro has the command: ActivePrinter = "SPECPRINT" this printer never gets used unless it is the default for the user session upon the workstation before the macro ever gets run. The SPECPRINT printer is defined upon each workstation and is an LPR network printer which prints to a special print queue hostsed on a unix system which "broadcasts" the print jobs out to about half a dozen HP laserjet printers scattered about our network. We'd like to get away from having to make the SPECPRINT printer be the default printer on all the workstations becuase the users are continually forgetting to manually pick another printer whenever they print ordinary print jobs, and inadvertantly broadcast out those jobs to all the special broadcast printers and waste a lot of paper. The problem is that the "ActivePrinter" setting in the macro is getting ignored and it doesn't seem to matter what value it's set to... the print output just always goes to whatever the default printer is set to. Is this a common issue with ActivePrinter? Is there a better way to programatically direct the output to a specific print queue? Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67915
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    - DocVariable Fields Hey I am pretty new to VBA and am trying to set up a macro that will update all of the fields in a document that are DocVariables. Some are in the body of the document and in the header/footer. I have one set up that will update all fields, but that is doing more than it needs to as it does the TOC and all the inclused text. Also anyone know of a good reference for object naming conventions in Word VBA, I program in other languages so the language structure is easy to pick up, just shakey on accessing the objects I want to. Thanks Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67914
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    - Template errors I had a template which was created with Word 2000 and now we have Word 2003. Everything was working fine until I wanted to add a new button to the template. Now any document that was created with the 2000 version template errors when it's opened in Word 2003 because it see's the code for the new button I created but it doesn't see the button. This must be something new with Word 2003 where it stays connected to the template and any new code that is added to then template is added to an existing document. Does anyone have any ideas?? Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67907
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    - Reading tabs stops Hi Folks, I'm looking for some help on reading Tab Stop information for every style from a template (more than 100 styles many of which has more then 2 tabstops set). Any help appreciated. Cheers J Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67900
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    - reffering to a template the right way? Hey, I'm using word to create a referation to a template. But It seems to fail, because it when the template loads it only shows the editing part. It originally use to create a new document witch used the template macro's. It wont seem to work with a simple reference to the template.dot I hope someone could help me out. Thanks. Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67893
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    - identifying lists in a selection Hello, I am trying to identify any lists within a selection. The user will selected some text in a word document (word 2002), then press the button to launch my macro which should convert the text selected into HTML :-) But I can't seem to grab hold of any lists within the selection - if I don't select any text I can use ActiveDocument.lists but there doesn't seem to be an equilivent command for selection.range. What I need to be able to do is find a list in the selected text, enter text before and after the list, and then work through each list item and do the same e.g. <ol> <li>item 1</li> <li>List 2</li> </ol> But if I can't even get hold of my list in the first place, this is going to be a triffle difficult! Any help, advice or pointers greatfully received. Many thanks Amy - still in the ooo, what does this command do phase of VBA p.s. yes I know word and HTML don't go together, but this really is the best solution to my particular problem - at the moment! Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67892
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    - Automating steps to copy URL from IE into Word This seemed like a Windows question more than a Word question, I sent it to a Windows newsgroup, and was told it was a Word question. So here goes. Here's the kind of thing I do a million times. I've just copied some text from a web page into Word. Now I want to copy the URL of that web page into Word. I do Alt+Tab to switch back to the Internet Exporer page. I press Alt+D to place cursor in address bar. I press Ctrl+C to copy the address. I use Alt+Tab switch back to Word. I press Ctrl+V to paste the url into Word. Would there be a way to automate these five steps into one action, whether done by a .vbs file or some other means? Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67887
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    - Is "Document Recovery" a toolbar? hi! I have seen that sometimes there is a document Opened into Word and Word Crashes due to any reason and when I run a new instance of Word I can see a Docable window with Caption "Document Recovery" displayed on left hand side of the document. I want to know: 1: What type of window is this? 2: Can I access it? 3: Can I create my own docable window like this one using VBA. any Help????? Thanks, Ahmad Jalil Qarshi Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67886
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    - Using DAO from Microsoft Word There seems to be no VBA help topics showing the Objects, Methods, and Properties need to use DAO from a Microsoft Word VBA program and I get no results when search MSDN. Where can I find documentation???? Specifically, I need to know the syntax for passing a query string to the OpenRecordset method. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. Thanks, Keith Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67881
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    - Can I use a macro to break up doc into separate files? Hi All, I have a long document (a user's manual) that I want to break up into a number of separate HTML files. Ultimately, these will become my online help (compiled HTML). I don't know of any way to simply convert from a Word dco to a .chm file, so I'm wondering about a macro to break the document up for me. At least that much of the conversion will be done for me. Each section of the doc has a number of Headings of various levels included. Ultimately, I'd like to select all the text from each Heading 1 to the next Heading 2, or Heading 1 if no Heading 2 exists. If a Heading 2 exists, I want to select all the text from it to the next Heading 2, or Heading one if there isn't another one. Once the text is selected, I want to save it to an HTML file, named whatever the Heading text is. I know my way around Visual Basic, but know mext to nothing about Word. Is what I want to do a reasonable thing? Is it possible that this has been done before, and some macro code is already out there somewhere? - Max Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67880
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    - Adding a range object to a Mail Merge field Result Any assistence for the following problem will be most appreciated. I am writing a macro that takes codes and text from one document, called Structure.doc and inserts the text, and text associated with several codes [which are stored in tables in several other word documents] into an existing report. The codes are stored in a word document that contains 1 table with 2 columns. The first column hads the code, the second column has the text [which may include numbering, formating, tables etc] This macro works fine. However, in the Strucutre document, I need to be able to toggle the codes on and off where on displays just the codes, and off displays the full text assosated with the code, just as in the Mail Merge preview. However, as the codes are stored in several documents, and only certain codes from each document are selected, I do not think I can use the in-built Mail-merge function. My thought was to use a mail merge field that the user could enter the code in the field, and then use a macro to insert the field Result from the appropriate document. I found this will work if using the fields(i).Result.text except that tables and all the formating is lost. From my understanding, the fields(i).Result is a range object and so I should be able to insert a Selection.Range object into the fields(i).Result. However, whenever I use the code: ReportDoc.fields(i).Result = Selection.Range word crashes. Can anyone explain what I am doing wrong? If the above is not clear enough, let me know and I will try to reword. Thanks, Simon Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67878
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    - Need Help With Wildcaed Search Hi, I have a table with alphabetic entries in it. I want to search the table for all entries beginning with a selected letter. I need to add a NOT to the search but I haven't been able to construct a string for the NOT. As an Example: Table ... Argentina Argentina - Buenos Aires ... So far I have <A{1} which seems to pick all the "A" entries. However, what do I add to the string so that the word "Aires" is NOT selected. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Jerry Bodoff Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67872
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    - how do you input a signature in word? Hi i am currently designing a template for engineers to print and give to customers once they have completed their job. However i need the customer to input a signature and for it to show on the worksheet template that has been filled in with the work carried out. I have a signature pad for customers to use but i dont know how to link it to the word template? Can anyone help please? Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67869
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    - find and copy all highlights of a particular color Hi all. I'm working with a long document in which "glossary" words have all been highlighted bright green. I would like to copy all of these words into a separate document so that I can create the glossary. I'm sure that Word has built-in features that would be a better choice for this task, but I have to remain within this particular scheme, so I'm just trying to make my job a little easier. I have an old WordBasic macro that finds all the occurences of a particular text string and appends them into a text document, one by one, but I can't quite figure out how to do the same in VBA and then modify the search, and I don't think WordBasic supports a search for a particular highlight color. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks. Rodney Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67863
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    - Word 2003 XML documents as plain text (unicode) I write a macro to manipulate some tags in XML documents. In previous versions of MS Word it wasn't a problem to insert XML-documents automatically in plain text format. How can I either set the MS-Word defaults in order not to have XML documents opened as XML documents or alter the following code to have the files inserted as plain text (unicode) files? Selection.InsertFile FileName:= myfile$, Range:="", _ ConfirmConversions:=False, Link:=False, Attachment:=False (of course I want to avoid having to confirm each conversion manually) Any help is much appreciated. Francois Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67862
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    - Can I set the tab order in a form created in Word 2003? I created a form in word using tables and form fields and I need to set the tabs to move vertically instead of horizontally. Is there a way to tell the tab key where to go next? It is a great form with this one exception!! Thanks for your help. Brittany Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67859
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    - Button in word doc Hi there i was just wondering if it is possible to have a command in a word document in the form of a button, to insert a new line in a table and to have texxt boxes in there aswell placed automatically.. Mat thanks in advance Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67844
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    - I need to create an index from existing document..HELP! Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67840
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    - Copy Textbox contents to clipboard Dear all, I do a lot of repetitive typing at work. I have a list of templates which I want handy around. I am thinking of having a word document with textboxes which are holding my different templates. I am hoping to have a button beside each textbox so that when I click it, it will automatically copy the textbox's contents to the clipboard. I can then paste these onto the software which I am doing data entry to. I have tried stuff like "textbox1.copy" but this does not work. Nothings goes onto the clipboard. What am I missing? Sorry this is my first attempt at programming, so to speak... anyone can help? Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67837
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    - what code will unprotect a document. Using Word 2000 and later, I need a code to put in my macro that will unprotect the document. I am using a simple macro as below and the first thing I want it to do is to unprotect the doc. Any ideas? This is what I have thus far: Selection.WholeStory Selection.Copy ActiveDocument.Close SaveChanges:=wdDoNotSaveChanges End Sub -- Thanks for your help! H Dodson Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67828
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    - SAVE Method How would I code something to say if it someone is closing or saving the document to look at a varable and change things accordingly? I have it changing things accordingly when a person tabs out of a field but if they don't use the tab key it doesn't change what it is supposed to. Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67824
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    - Where I can find documentation for the commands for DDE and Word? I need find some documentation for the commands to use for interfacing with Word, i.e. "FileExit(2)", etc. Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67817
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    - Why OnClosing Doc. Containing my ActiveX Ctrl asks me to save. Whereas its already saved!!!!! hi! I have a ActiveX control Written in VC7.1 for Word. when i insert my control into Word and close the doc after saving the document, it again asks me Do you want to save the changes? But on thing to be noted is that I handled the event DocumentBeforeClose and in this i verify that the document is saved or not. and the doc. is not modified but Word warns me. I dont know why? I also pass fClearDirty = TRUE in the following function call. Anybody there to solve my problem. HRESULT IPersistStreamInit_Save(LPSTREAM pStm, BOOL fClearDirty ,ATL_PROPMAP_ENTRY* pMap) Thanks Jack Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67811
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    - Updating a REF in a Header Good morning, I found this module that works great to update the REF that I have in my header. but I was wondering:> If I know the name of the REF can I update the REF field by Name instead of checking for all Ref fields ? '--------------------------------------------- Sub RefFieldUpdateAllStory() ' Written by Charles Kyle Kenyon 15 November 2001 ' repaired with help from Jezebel 10 December 2004 ' All Story Field Updater - Ref fields Dim oField As Field Dim oStory As Range For Each oStory In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges ' This goes into headers and footers as well as the regular document Do For Each oField In oStory.Fields If oField.Type = wdFieldRef Then oField.Update End If Next oField Set oStory = oStory.Next Loop Until oStory Is Nothing Next oStory End Sub Thanks. Micheline Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67797
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    - Can I read the Version into some Buffer without opening the Version into new instance of Word? hi! I have a word document. I added 2 Versions into the ActiveDocument. Now as from the Object Model its Obvious that there are three main methods to do something with Versions. 1. Open 2. Delete 3. Save Now if i want to read binary data of Version 1 into some buffer. I'll have to Open the version. and then get the path of the opened version and after that read the files data into buffer. But i don't want to Open the Version. I just want to read the contents of the specific Version without showing the user that the Version is opened and then closed. Is there any solution to this problem Thanks in advance. Ahmad jalil Qarshi Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67777
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    - Word 2003 Custom Fields Hi I have created a template with headers & footers for page 2 onwards. The template however is a one page template, the headers and footers present themselves as they should, in the event of a second page being required. The problem I am having is that the header for page 2 onwards holds a custom field. When page 2 is automatically created by typing lots of text the custom field does not update. The only way to update the field is to print it, F9 it or print preview. How can I have the header of my page 2 onwards custom field updated when no page 2 exists until I start typing into my document? Thanks very much in advance for your help. Kerry. Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67776
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    - Move top-left corner of document into view When I open a document containing a table I do some editing (using VBA) in a cell off the screen. This causes the document to visually move to the right to bring the cell onto the screen. Afterwards, I need the top left section of the document redisplayed on my screen. At the moment, I'm using a workaround to achieve this - I select cell(1, 1) which is the top left of the document, insert a period (ie ".") and then delete the period. But, how do I move the top left corner of the document into view without doing any editing? It would be much safer for any text already there. Note: I have also tried turning ScreenUpdating off, but it has no affect on this. Thanks for your help. My current code: myDocument.Tables.Item(1).Cell(1, 1).Select() With myDocument.ActiveWindow.Selection .HomeKey() ' Sets insertion point at start of cell .Range.InsertAfter(".") ' Inserts a period .HomeKey(wdLine, wdExtend) ' Selects period .Delete() ' Deletes period End With Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67769
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    - Creating a module-wide variable Sorry if I'm not using the terminology correctly. I already have several module-wide variables (created by Dim statements) which enable information returned in one macro to be used in another macro--a neat capability. But these variables only seem to work because there already happens to be some public declarations at the top of the module, like this: Public Declare Sub Sleep Lib "kernel32" _ (ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long) These public declarations have nothing to do with the Dim statements, yet they enable them to work. I want to learn how to set up a module-wide variable if there is not already a Public declaration. In other words, if there is nothing at the top of the module, and I want to create a module-wide Dim statement there, how do I do that? Thanks, Larry Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67747
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    - What is NoList Style? I was working with a macro that Klaus Linke posted the other day to remove unused styles. Klaus explains that Normal, DefaultParagraph, and Heading1-9 sytles are built in and can't be removed. I have Word2003 and in my Normal.dot there are two other styles that can't be removed: NormalTable and NoList. I added a line to Klaus' code to handle the NormalTable (skip it), but when I tried to add a constant for the NoList style I could't fine one. I use wdStyleNormalTable for the normal table, I looked through all of the wdStyle constants and couldn't find one for NoList. I didn't try each one as none looked promising. I would like to add a line in the below code similiar to the Case statements for NormalTable and the other builtin styles. Can anyone suggest what I should use? Thanks. Sub DeleteUnusedStyles() Dim oDoc As Document Dim myStyle As Style Dim myString As String Dim i As Integer Set oDoc = ActiveDocument For Each myStyle In oDoc.Styles If myStyle.InUse Then Select Case myStyle Case oDoc.Styles(wdStyleDefaultParagraphFont) Case oDoc.Styles(wdStyleNormal) Case oDoc.Styles(wdStyleNormalTable) Case oDoc.Styles(wdStyleHeading1) To oDoc.Styles(wdStyleHeading9) Case Else Selection.Collapse (wdCollapseStart) With Selection.Find .ClearFormatting .Style = myStyle .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindContinue .Execute FindText:="", Format:=True If .Found = False Then StatusBar = myStyle.NameLocal If MsgBox("Delete", vbYesNo, myStyle.NameLocal) = vbYes Then myStyle.Delete End If Else myString = myString + myStyle.NameLocal & vbCr End If End With End Select End If Next myStyle MsgBox "In addition to Builtin styles, the" _ & vbCr & "following style(s) can't be removed:" & vbCr & myString End Sub -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67744
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    - can't see drop down menu on form document I am creating a form where I want the users to pull down a menu. When I click the drop down menu on the form it just shows a gray box with one of the entries. I want the user to see the pull down menu instead. Help! Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67743
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    - removing a blank feild in mail merge In my document i have a feild called " name" if it is blank is there a way that it will not say "name" on the document ???? Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67741
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    - Restoring the ability to Tab between fields instead of using Enter I have created a form in Word 2003 and used the macros described in the Microsoft article number 211219 to allow the Enter key to navigate between the form fields instead of inserting a new paragraph. I now want to change this behavior back, however for every new template or document based on a template I create, the Enter key moves between the form fields. I have deleted the macros described above; I have performed a "reset all" in the customize keyboard form under tools â?? customize, I have ran a macro to using keybindings.clearall, I have started Word using the /a switch, I have removed everything from the Word startup directory, and I have deleted the Normal.dot file and let Word create a fresh copy. None of this has worked. Can anyone tell me what Iâ??m missing? Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated. -- ddorrough Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67739
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    - Retain information added to fill-in fields in template I have created a template with fill-in fields. What I need to accomplish is this: User inputs in all fill-in fields, say their personal information in a letter template. How can I save that information so that they do not have to answer the fill-ins again when they launch the template at a later date? Many thanks! Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67736
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    - Loop not Looping I am relatively new to writing macros and have a feeling I am missing one step, but I am trying to write a macro that searches up for an occurrence of the word article followed by a space and any number and another space. I then want it to delete the space, and insert a tab. The macro works fine, but for some reason, it is not looping. If you have any suggestions, I would greatly appreciate it. here is what I have so far: Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdStory Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToField, Which:=wdGoToNext, Count:=1, Name:="TOC" Selection.Find.ClearFormatting Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1, Extend:=wdExtend Selection.MoveDown Unit:=wdLine, Count:=1 Do With Selection.Find .Text = "article ^# " .Replacement.Text = "" .Forward = False .Wrap = wdFindStop .Format = False .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchWildcards = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchAllWordForms = False End With Selection.Find.Execute Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1 Selection.TypeBackspace Selection.TypeText Text:=vbTab Loop Until Condition = False End Sub Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67734
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    - Identifying table ranges I have a Word document with two columns. I inserted a table to span both columns but had to force a column break to balance the data. I have not worked with coding much in Word and cannot find an answer to my problems. I can't figure out how to identify the two (seemingly) different tables ranges. If I select the table in the first column, only the table in that column is selected. I want to search for data in both columns/tables to update information. How do I set ranges for these two tables so I can use it in my loop statement? I need as much of the source code as possible please. Thank you. Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67733
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    - Opening Hyperlink as Read Only I have an Access database that has a hyperlink field which opens a Word document. Is there any way to open the Word document hyperlink as Read Only? Thanks! at Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67728
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    - Drop down list choices print but don't appear on email or fax Hi, I'm making a form in word 2003 to be used by our doctors to send a stat fax/email in conjuction with outlook 2003. I am almost there...but I need a little help. I have created a form with a drop down with items in the drop down list such as HEAD CT, ABDOMINAL CT, PELVIC CT. When I lock the form these appear as choices and they can be selected. It works great and if I print the page I see the choices that were made. That is perfect...but, when I actually send or fax the report, that field ends up blank. Can i have the text of the chosen drop down appear on the email/fax once it is sent? That is, if on the pull down I select HEAD CT, I want that to appear as text. Do I have to run a macro on entry or exit that types the actual word "head ct"? If so, how do I create that macro? I can send a copy of my .doc/template if needed. Thanks in advance. Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67724
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    - Building a table of figures automaticaly. Selection.Found condition subs out, why? Hi Again, I used a solution from this news group for checking whether a selection was found. For some reason, if I do not do the replace unconditionaly 1 time, the loop never starts. Any ideas? Shimon Sub InsertNumLooped() 'Replaces the text " Figure: " with Figure: and a reference number 'in order to build a table of figures . ' ' ' Selection.Find.ClearFormatting Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting With Selection.Find .Text = " Figure: " .Replacement.Text = "Figure: " .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindContinue .Format = False .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchKashida = False .MatchDiacritics = False .MatchAlefHamza = False .MatchControl = False .MatchWildcards = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchAllWordForms = False End With Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceOne Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1 Selection.Fields.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Type:=wdFieldEmpty, Text:= _ "SEQ Figure \*ARABIC", PreserveFormatting:=True Selection.TypeText Text:=" " For i = 1 To 50 Selection.Find.ClearFormatting Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting With Selection.Find .Text = " Figure: " .Replacement.Text = "Figure: " .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindContinue .Format = False .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchKashida = False .MatchDiacritics = False .MatchAlefHamza = False .MatchControl = False .MatchWildcards = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchAllWordForms = False If Not .Found Then Exit Sub End With Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceOne Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1 Selection.Fields.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Type:=wdFieldEmpty, Text:= _ "SEQ Figure \*ARABIC", PreserveFormatting:=True Selection.TypeText Text:=" " Next i End Sub Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67721
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    - mosBarBottom: Documented bahavior or a bug? Usually, when I create a toolbar, I do include the Position property in the Add method. However, for msoBarBottom, I find unusual bahavior if I do not specify the Position property until later in the code. Using Word 2003, with msoBottom in the Add method, I get the expected behavior, i.e., the toolbar is created below all other toolbars. on a separate row. However, if I use the Add method without the Position property and later use the Postion property with msoBarBottom, the toolbar does not get placed at the bottom, instead, I've seen the following two cases: 1. The toolbar is intermingled with the toolbars in the last row of the toolbars, and not all the toolbar buttons are visible. 2. The toolbar is intermingled with the toolbars in the last row of the toolbars, and all the toolbar buttons are visible. I would have expected the use of Position with msoBarBottom to have caused the toobar to be in a new last row. Why all the buttons show sometimes, but not others, makes no sense, as nothing else has changed. Is this documented intended behavior, or is it a bug, documented or otherwise? -- http://www.standards.com/; See Howard Kaikow's web site. Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67708
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    - Why does the cursor disappear when I'm typing fast for awhile? I'm transcribing and can type very fast without looking at the keys. However, when I do look up, I find the cursor is not on the screen and whatever I've typed has stopped printing on the screen. I have to click the cursor back onto the page and then start typing, while stopping to check every sentence or so. HELP!! Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67707
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    - Is it possible Inserting a Range object at a specified location. Hi I want to create a range object which holds a section of document 1 and then insert that range section into another document. But i can't see an InsertRange method or the like. Is there any way of doing this? Thanks Andrew Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67705
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    - Can I disable the prompt to save a document I am trying to record a simple macro that will select all, copy and close the document. I will then paste the clipboard onto another program. The problem I am having is that prompt that asks me "Do you want to save the changes you have made..." I never want to save these changes and would like to either be able to turn the prompt off all the Word docs or put it into the macro not to ask me. Any suggestions? (I am VB illiterate) -- Thanks for your help! H Dodson Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67700
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    - Loop thru doc and stop @ SEQ field Hi, I have a document with SEQ fields. I'm working with a document that should have SEQ fields when the style is Normal. Any other style and no SEQ number. The SEQ field is always at the beginning of the paragraph. This is what I would like to do: If style not normal then go to next paragraph if normal test if SEQ field @ left margin if SEQ field already there go onto next paragraph else add SEQ field go to next paragraph and do all over again I'm mainly having problems testing for the SEQ field Thanks jbc Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67699
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    - Bookmark for FormField Does anyone know code for assigning a bookmark to a formfield? I can put a bookmark in, but it always shows up after the formfield, and I want to create a new formfield and immediately give the bookmark itself a bookmark name. It must be just one or two lines of code, but I can't find it and it's holding up my project. Thanks so much for helping out. Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67698
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    - Add Fields Using Find And Replace Is it possible to do a find and replace all and add fields in the replace all? I'd like to search a doc for the following text ?Input? and replace this text with a form field. I know how to do a find a replace all and I know how to add a form field, but not together. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Dave Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67694
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    - How do I add AutoText fields to the Formdatafields button on the m Hi, I'm working with Word 2000 template document which has several Autotext created already and those autotext are also in the formdatafields button on the menu bar. The user basically click to insert these dataformfields to the template and data will be be filled in during run time. I've created 2 additional Autotext items and modified the VB code behind to pull in the data. How do I add these 2 new Autotext items to the formdatafields menu? Should be something simple becuase I 've done it before but can't remember how to do it now since it's been a while. I thoguth I could drag from the Autotext to the formdatafields on the menu but it's not working. Thanks, Alpha Tag: "Highlight" selected text boxes Tag: 67691
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I may have seen the solution to my problem a while back but of course I
cannot located it now. Sorry if this is a duplicate question.

Word 2003
Form with default text in text boxes.

I would like to have the selected text box text highlighted in blue like it
does in windows. The user could just overtype the default text.

Thank-you,

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Thank-you and all suggestions are appreciated.

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Re: "Highlight" selected text boxes by Ben

Ben
Tue May 10 00:53:30 CDT 2005

Try...

With frmName.txtTextBoxName
.SetFocus
.SelStart = 0
.SelLength = Len(frmName.txtTextBoxName)
End With

"Anauna" <Anauna@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:36BDE11F-A809-483A-A5FB-62FDDB4F64EC@microsoft.com...
> I may have seen the solution to my problem a while back but of course I
> cannot located it now. Sorry if this is a duplicate question.
>
> Word 2003
> Form with default text in text boxes.
>
> I would like to have the selected text box text highlighted in blue like
it
> does in windows. The user could just overtype the default text.
>
>
> Thank-you,
>
>
> --
> Thank-you and all suggestions are appreciated.

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