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 - Document creation, where to start Hi, I know very little about programming macro's and VBA in Microsoft Office 2000/XP. But I'm pretty good at programming VB6/VB.NET, ASP/ASP.NET and other non-Microsoft programming languages. This is what I want. I need a custom toolbar that start a pop-up asking the type of template to use (with or without logo, header, footer), build pre-defined tables (depending on the type of template) and ask for address information (preferable dynamic from a database, only one address at the time). Please advise where to start. Books and links are really appreciated. Samples are not necessary, I'll try to find out myself (but if you have samples, they're very welcome too). Thanks for your time. Jeroen - Tag: Visual Indicator that macro is running? Tag: 45005
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 - Splitting a Document Hi The supplier reference will be a 6 digit number starting with a 1. Let me know if you need any more info. E >-----Original Message----- >Edgar, > >Give us some more information about how the supplier reference can be >identified. > >-- >Please post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the >benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded >directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis. >Hope this helps >Doug Robbins - Word MVP >"Edgar" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message >news:455901c3e3fd$f54ed080$a401280a@phx.gbl... >> Hi >> >> Not sure if this is possible but i have a large document >> that is generated from Crystal Reports and is saved in rtf >> format. >> >> This report is lots of different remittances for suppliers >> but we cannot split this up to individual suppliers from >> Crystal so at the moment we are forced to email page >> ranges which is very time consuming. >> >> The problem is the remittances range from 1 page to 15 >> pages so i would need to set up some kind of loop to check >> the supplier reference and then for it to save as the >> supplier reference. >> >> The supplier reference is always in the same place on the >> document so is it possible to set a marker on this to be >> used in a loop. Sorry but i know next to nothing about >> word vba. Thanks in advance for your help. >> >> Edgar > > Tag: Visual Indicator that macro is running? Tag: 45003
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 - Compile error Error screen reads: Microsoft Visual Basic Compile error in hidden module: main How do you fix this? Tag: Visual Indicator that macro is running? Tag: 45000
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 - Search Replace with Wildcard I need to take each instance of ^pTEXTLEADER varyingtext ^p and replace it with ^pTEXTLEADER varyingtext ^p I can't simply find and replace ^p with ^p because ^p occurs in many places in my file and I want to keep it in those other places; I already tried this and it returns too many errors on my final file. I've looked at "LCase", "Left", "LTrim", "Trim", "Mid", "RCase", "Right", and "RTrim"; none of these does what I need to do. Help is greatly appreciated!! SGC Tag: Visual Indicator that macro is running? Tag: 44999
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 - Wildcard Search Replace I need to take each instance of ^pTEXTLEADER varyingtext ^p and replace it with ^pTEXTLEADER varyingtext ^p I can't simply find and replace ^p with ^p because ^p occurs in many places in my file and I want to keep it in those other places; I already tried this and it returns too many errors on my final file. I've looked at "LCase", "Left", "LTrim", "Trim", "Mid", "RCase", "Right", and "RTrim"; none of these does what I need to do. Help is greatly appreciated!! SGC Tag: Visual Indicator that macro is running? Tag: 44998
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 - Splitting a document Hi Not sure if this is possible but i have a large document that is generated from Crystal Reports and is saved in rtf format. This report is lots of different remittances for suppliers but we cannot split this up to individual suppliers from Crystal so at the moment we are forced to email page ranges which is very time consuming. The problem is the remittances range from 1 page to 15 pages so i would need to set up some kind of loop to check the supplier reference and then for it to save as the supplier reference. The supplier reference is always in the same place on the document so is it possible to set a marker on this to be used in a loop. Sorry but i know next to nothing about word vba. Thanks in advance for your help. Edgar Tag: Visual Indicator that macro is running? Tag: 44994
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 - Arrays and ListBox help Hello folks (& Doug + Jonathon) I have a form that prompts a user for personal information such as name and address. When completed the user hits the "ADD" button and the personal information is store in a listbox (listbox2) that has 9 columns. (One column for each of FirstName/Surname/Street/City etc....) The listbox typically contains only a few people, and hence only a few rows (one row per person). The personal information is also store in an array. Because Redim Preserve only works on the last element of an array the array is transposed allowing the additon and deletion of records. I need to code a DELETE button to delete records from the listbox2 and subsequently the array. Deleting records from the listbox2 is easy - the array is not so easy. I have got my attempt at the code below but it comes up with a type mismatch on the line; OffenderArray = ListBox2.Column() Anybody able to tell me how to finish this off? I think Doug Robbins sent me the code to do it once but I lost it and cant find the post. Cheers -Al Private Sub CommandButton2_Click() ' Macro to delete Defendants from Array Dim NameCount Dim NametoDelete Dim Adjust_Array_Count Dim i As Long NameCount = ListBox2.ListCount ' Counts Number of Defendants NametoDelete = ListBox2.ListIndex ' Identify currently select Defendant ' Procedure if no name selected If NametoDelete = -1 Then MsgBox "You must select a Defendant Name.", vbExclamation, "No Name Selected" Exit Sub End If ' Procedure when name selected ListBox2.RemoveItem NametoDelete 'Delete selected Defendant from Listbox ReDim Preserve OffenderArray(9, ListBox2.ListCount - 1) 'Redefine Array For i = 0 To ListBox2.ListCount - 1 MsgBox OffenderArray(0, i) Next i MsgBox "Stop", vbInformation, "Stop" OffenderArray = ListBox2.Column() For i = 0 To ListBox2.ListCount - 1 MsgBox OffenderArray(0, i) Next i MsgBox "Stop", vbInformation, "Stop" Tag: Visual Indicator that macro is running? Tag: 44991
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 - Chr(10) does not produce linefeed in formfield Using Office XP I am populating formfields on a Word template from a query in Access. Everything works fine, but when I attempt to do a line-feed, all I get is a little box. I have tried both Chr(10) and Chr(13) for line feed and carriage return. Other Chr codes work. Chr (36) produces a dollar sign, etc. How can I do a line feed in a formfield with code? Thanks in advance. Steve Tag: Visual Indicator that macro is running? Tag: 44990
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 - Agents Code in Word Hello. I am creating a word index of all my agents. (I am using word because that's the only way I know to get to the Visual Basic editor) There is something (s) fundamentally wrong with this code but I can't figure out what it is: Here it is: Private Sub Form_Load() On Error Resume Next Set AgentControl = CreateObject("Agent.Control.2") AgentControl.Connected = True Dim FSO As FileSystemObject: Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Dim FOL, FILE: Set FOL = FSO.GetFolder("c:\Windows\msagent\chars").Files Dim CharacterName As String For Each FILE In FOL CharacterName = Left(FILE.Path, Len(FILE.Path) - 4) AgentControl.Characters.Load CharacterName, CharacterName & ".acs" AgentControl.Characters.Character(CharacterName).MoveTo 0, 150 AgentControl.Characters.Character(CharacterName).Show AgentControl.Characters.Character(CharacterName).Play ("Wave") AgentControl.Characters.Character(CharacterName).Speak "My name is" & CharacterName For iCount = 1 To 300000000: Next iCount Next End Sub What it should do a) Have the first agent come up b) He waves c) He says his name d) Then he stands there waving e) The next character comes up little below the first f) Waves and says his name g) Now there are 2 characters waving. h) On to the next character i) At the end all the characters should be standing there waving. (I tried to make them go ACROSS the page or in neat rows and columns all waving with their name displayed, but I couldn't figure how to do that, so now the characters just go down the page.) 2) What it does now: a) After a loooooong time delay b) The first agent comes up c) He waves d) He spells..yes spells...the full path of his name instead of reading just his name. e) Then the next character comes up on top of the first character and repeats the process. f) All the characters come up on top of each other g) Then they all disappear!! Any ideas on this one?? Thanks! Stacy Tag: Visual Indicator that macro is running? Tag: 44988
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 - Agents Code in Word Hello. I am creating a word index of all my agents. (I am using word because that's the only way I know to get to the Visual Basic editor) There is something (s) fundamentally wrong with this code but I can't figure out what it is: Here it is: Private Sub Form_Load() On Error Resume Next Set AgentControl = CreateObject("Agent.Control.2") AgentControl.Connected = True Dim FSO As FileSystemObject: Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Dim FOL, FILE: Set FOL = FSO.GetFolder("c:\Windows\msagent\chars").Files Dim CharacterName As String For Each FILE In FOL CharacterName = Left(FILE.Path, Len(FILE.Path) - 4) AgentControl.Characters.Load CharacterName, CharacterName & ".acs" AgentControl.Characters.Character(CharacterName).MoveTo 0, 150 AgentControl.Characters.Character(CharacterName).Show AgentControl.Characters.Character(CharacterName).Play ("Wave") AgentControl.Characters.Character(CharacterName).Speak "My name is" & CharacterName For iCount = 1 To 300000000: Next iCount Next End Sub What it should do a) Have the first agent come up b) He waves c) He says his name d) Then he stands there waving e) The next character comes up little below the first f) Waves and says his name g) Now there are 2 characters waving. h) On to the next character i) At the end all the characters should be standing there waving. (I tried to make them go ACROSS the page or in neat rows and columns all waving with their name displayed, but I couldn't figure how to do that, so now the characters just go down the page.) 2) What it does now: a) After a loooooong time delay b) The first agent comes up c) He waves d) He spells..yes spells...the full path of his name instead of reading just his name. e) Then the next character comes up on top of the first character and repeats the process. f) All the characters come up on top of each other g) Then they all disappear!! Any ideas on this one?? Thanks! Stacy Tag: Visual Indicator that macro is running? Tag: 44987
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 - Can't insert Common Dialog Control This should be simple for someone!! I am in MS Word 2000 trying to insert an ActiveX control called Common Dialog Control V6. I see the control in the list, but when I click on it it says "The server application, source file, or item cannot be found". Any help?? Tag: Visual Indicator that macro is running? Tag: 44983
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 - Displaying a FileOpen dialog in desired sort order I want to be able to select the sort order of a dialog via VBA. Displaying the directory is easy, but I am stuck with the default (seems to be last used) sort order. There doesn't appear to be a sort order option in the various VBA commands that control file opening. How can I automatically display the dialog let's say in name or date (most recent on top) order without having to click the name or size or date column once the dialog displays. =========== With Dialogs(wdDialogFileOpen) .name = "*.doc" .SORTBY ="date" or "name" or "size" <-something like this doesn't seem to exist .Show End With ============ Maybe there is a SendKeys command? Thanks, Roy Tag: Visual Indicator that macro is running? Tag: 44972
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 - Determining whether a range is inside a field Version: Word 2000 SR-1 I have some text that I need to use within an If field. The text may contain double quotes, and may also contain other fields. Because the If field treats a double quote as delimiting an argument, I want to replace any double quotes with a Symbol field representing the quote. However, if a double quote is within a field, I want to leave it unchanged. I can do the first part like this: Private Sub Replace_Quotes(sel as Word.Selection) While Find_Text(sel, """") sel.Fields.Add sel.Range, wdFieldSymbol, "34", False Wend End Sub Private Function Find_Text(sel As Word.Selection, search_text As String) With sel.Find .ClearAllFuzzyOptions .ClearFormatting .Forward = True .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchWildcards = False .Text = search_text .Wrap = wdFindStop Find_Text = .Execute End With End Function This works, but that if my selection contains a field like this: { TIME \@ "dd MMMM yyyy" } the quotes inside the field also get replaced with the Symbol field. So, is there any way to determine whether sel.Range relates to something that's inside a field? If there isn't, I suppose I could do it by recording each field's definition before I start, and then restoring each field to it's original state. Is there a better way? Thanks. Andy Bowles Tag: Visual Indicator that macro is running? Tag: 44967
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 - Replacing MS Notepad WHEN I DOWNLOAD A FORM OR APPLICATION I CLICK ON THE FILE TAB BESIDE THE EDIT ON THERE IT SAYS NEW, OPEN, EDIT WITH NOTEPAD AND SAVE AS. I CLICK ON SAY AS AND DOWNLOAD IT. BUT WHEN I'M OFF LINE TO WORK ON IT I ONLY CAN WORK ON IT IN NOTE PAD FORM WITHOUT THE HTML. WHEN I TRY TO OPEN IT IN MY MICROSOFT WORD PROCESSOR. I GET THAT IT CAN'T BE DONE CAUSE I DON'T HAVE A CONVERTER TO SUPPORT IT. I HAVE WINDOWS ME, WITH MICROSOFT WORKS 6.0.. NOW ON MY FRIENDS PC I CAN DOWN LOAD THE SOMETHING THE SAME WAY AND I CAN EDIT IT WITH HIS MICROSOFT WORD PROCESSOR. THE ONLY THING I SAW DIFFERENT WAS IF YOU CLICK ON HIS FILE ON TOP BESIDE EDIT HIS SAYS NEW, OPEN, EDIT WITH MICROSOFT WORD PROCESSOR...AND MINE SAYS EDIT WITH NOTEPAD...MY QUESTION IS HOW DO I CHANGE MINE TO EDIT WITH MICROSOFT WORD PROCESSOR...........PLEASE HELP ME PLEASE........THANKS JOHN Tag: Visual Indicator that macro is running? Tag: 44964
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 - Please review code I am using a template with fixed cell dimensions. I am taking information from a vb.net form and using bookmarks a placeholders for the form data. I am not using fixed-width fonts. If the data wraps in the cell due to length - I need to move all tex from the 2nd line forward to the next cell. The following code now works - but I would like any tips or comments o code to make it more efficient. Thanks in advance. Matt Private Sub cmdGenerate_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVa e As System.EventArgs) Handles cmdGenerate.Click ' Declare the variables Dim m_WordServer As Word.ApplicationClass m_WordServer = New Word.Application() Dim word_filename As String Dim wdGoToBookmark As Word.Bookmark Dim myrange As Word.Range Dim oTable As Word.Table Dim oCell As Word.Cell Dim lngBegRange As Long Dim lngEndRange As Long 'Get the discharge template path word_filename = GetRegValue("Software\\Documentation" "DischargeTemplatePath") Try With m_WordServer ' Open and acitvate the document Tag: Visual Indicator that macro is running? Tag: 44962
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 - Insert Text Box What is the best way to bring the cursor to the last page of a document and insert a text box? I've tried several pieces of code, but I keep running into buggy issues. Thank you, Doug Tag: Visual Indicator that macro is running? Tag: 44957
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 - Insert text from UserForm into current cursor position I've done my Usenet homework on this, but still can't find the proper syntax for this: I have a UserForm open, with some text stored in the "txtInsert" field in the form. What is the syntax to attach to a command button on the form to insert the value of txtInsert into the document at the current cursor position? TIA Tag: Visual Indicator that macro is running? Tag: 44953
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 - Mouse Wheel Am I the only one who has noticed that the mouse wheel does not work in VBA? It is impossible to scroll using the wheel when programming.... Knut Tag: Visual Indicator that macro is running? Tag: 44947
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 - Entering Text into a Text Field I am trying to insert a text field which will allow for enough space when entering the text. The problem is that once I have made the form, when text is typed into the field by a user, the text following the field moves. I want the field to provide enough space in the form without having the following text move. Is this possible? Is there a way to "freeze" the text on the form? Tag: Visual Indicator that macro is running? Tag: 44946
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 - Modify text between certain tags Hi all! How to modify (i.e. toggle bold) all the strings in document which are between certain tags? Strings are like: ##THIS_IS_A_STRING## Spaces between tags "##" are not allowed. So, all the occurences in the Word document should be modified, how could this be done? Tag: Visual Indicator that macro is running? Tag: 44945
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 - API for Custom Document Properties & Comments Hello I am trying to export information such as custom document properties and comments from a Word 2000 document to another application written in php. I understand vba very well but I am at a loss as to how to do this Thanx for the help Rami Tag: Visual Indicator that macro is running? Tag: 44944
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 - can't capture Edit>Links... in word macro I am trying to create a macro that will break all existing OLE links in a MS Word 2002 document The master document containes a series of OLE links to text (paragraphs) in other documents. I want to break the links in the master doc so it is only static text. When I record amacro - all document oiperations are captured in teh macro except the Edit>Links... dialog is not captured I have tried using the following code with no success (perhaps shapes are not word documents? Dim shapeLoop As Shap For Each shapeLoop In ActiveDocument.Shape With shapeLoo If .Type = msoLinkedOLEObject The .LinkFormat.Updat .LinkFormat.BreakLin End I End Wit Next shapeLoo Any ideas on how to craete this generic macro Thanks Mark McFarlane Tag: Visual Indicator that macro is running? Tag: 44937
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 - run-time error '5941' after merging Hi, I'm working on an Word offertemplate, after lots of hardworking, it's finished! But now there's a big problem, If the template is merged with our CRM software (called Winris, a dutch company) The macro's won't work anymore. If you use the template manualy all the macro's work fine, but after merging (and even saving in the same directory as the Template)you'll get the next error message: Run-time error '5941' The requested member of the collection does not exist. ONly the index-macro still works fine (not connected to any external file). In the template I've used macro's like: Sub AMwest() ' ' AMwest Macro ' Macro opgenomen op 31-10-03 door Receptie ' ChangeFileOpenDirectory _ "F:\data\Public\Offerte documenten\Gegevens Accountmanager\" ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("ButtonAM").Select Selection.InsertFile FileName:="amwest.doc", Range:="", _ ConfirmConversions:=False, Link:=False, Attachment:=False End Sub I'm using word2000 and VB6, we use the crm-sw to merge the customername and adress with the offer (one at a time). And then select severel options (by non-working macros at the moment. I hope someone can help me with this problem since we're dealing with it for several months by now! Thanx in Advance B Meijer from the Netherlands p.s. I just found out it's caused by the bookmarks wich are gone after merging!:confused: Any idea anybody? ------------------------------------------------ ~~ Message posted from http://www.ExcelTip.com/ ~~View and post usenet messages directly from http://www.ExcelForum.com/ Tag: Visual Indicator that macro is running? Tag: 44928
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 - Defining Range Objects Using Bookmarks Word 2000 I have a document that is used as a boiler plate for text. Throughout the course of a shift we will paste blocks of data into the document. At the end of the shift we process the data using a set a macros that I've written. Currently, the macros work by moving the cursor in the document to select blocks of text. I'm now working on having the macros use range objects instead. The blocks of text can be of varying lengths, so I can't use a set number of characters, lines, or paragraphs to create the range objects--they have to be dynamic in that respect. So I thought that I would use bookmarks. I've figured out how to create a bookmark each time a block of text is pasted into the document. I'm creating the bookmark at the end of the block of text. However, I haven't been able to figure out how to use those bookmarks to define my range objects. What I would like to do is have the macro define the range object so that it starts with the current cursor location and ends with the NEXT bookmark. How can I do that? --Tom Tag: Visual Indicator that macro is running? Tag: 44927
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 - help with macro I have a document with multiple tables (separated). What I would like to do is create a macro that selects a certain table and then pulls out only the rows that have text in the second column and puts these rows at the bottom of the document as a new page. The table has four columns. First column has a few lines of text describing an action that has to be taken (this is a "minutes" document). The second column will have a name of the person that is responsible for the action (Last name, first name). The third column would have a due date. So really what I want is to pull out just the action items, which would be the rows with a person's name in the second column, and list them on a separate page at the bottom of the document. Also would like it to be sorted by ascending alpha order by person's name. I have done macros using tools - macros and recording the macro while performing certain steps. I believe I would have to use VB code and I am not real familiar with that. I hope this makes sense. Just another thought. Would it make more sense to create fields using table of contents fields? This way if I update the body of the document it would also update the summary page at the end of the document. Thank you for any help you can give. Dorothy Tag: Visual Indicator that macro is running? Tag: 44921
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 - Multiuser access to a file on our server We are using a number of "boiler plate" type text entries that get inserted into documents by a function "fnInsertText" that's in the Normal template on each workstation. The text entries are arguements passed to fnInsertText, which performs certain operations on them and then inserts them into the document. There are about 100 text entries of one-sentence size. They are subject to continual Add/Change/Delete operations. I'd like some ideas on how and where to store these text entries on our network so that they are available to all the workstations, and can be maintained by editing a single file on the server. I thought about retrieving them from the server as a tab-delimited text file and putting them into an array in the workstation module that contains "fnInsertText" ... something like that, but there are probably better ways ... I assume that accessing them directly from a file on the server would create a great many problems related to sharing, network speed, etc. Thanks very much Tag: Visual Indicator that macro is running? Tag: 44911
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 - How to create custom template that will replace standard bullets? Hello I have a ton of word 2000 documents that i would like to modify so that I can put them into my FlexWiki web site. What that entails is modifying all of my headers from Heading1, Heading2 etc...to something that wiki can understand like Heading1 would be Heading2 would be ! Heading3 would be !! The theory was that I could create a custom style sheet .dot and then apply it to my existing documents! And whola! I can cut and paste my documents into Wiki. Tag: Visual Indicator that macro is running? Tag: 44909
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 - Match Whole Word In a macro, I used Ctrl+Find to locate the word "East" in an addr line and change it to "E". While this works fine, it also changes "Eastwood" to "Ewood". I tried using MatchWholeWord=True but it didn't help. I notice that when I use Ctrl+Find outside of the macro environment, it allows me to choose "Find Whole Words Only'. My question is how do I make the macro using Ctrl+Find to use the "Find Whole Words Only" command. Thanks muchly for your time and expertise Joanne Tag: Visual Indicator that macro is running? Tag: 44904
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 - Visual Basic Error When I start Word2000, I get a Microsoft Visual Basic Window that claims a runtime error '48' It says that a file was not found (QStartup.dll) This started appearing after I uninstalled a number of programs. Any idea what is causing this and how I can get rid of it? Tag: Visual Indicator that macro is running? Tag: 44901
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 - Forms and Documents 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. Tag: Visual Indicator that macro is running? Tag: 44900
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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: Visual Indicator that macro is running? 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: Visual Indicator that macro is running? 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: Visual Indicator that macro is running? 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: Visual Indicator that macro is running? 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: Visual Indicator that macro is running? 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: Visual Indicator that macro is running? 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: Visual Indicator that macro is running? 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: Visual Indicator that macro is running? 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: Visual Indicator that macro is running? 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: Visual Indicator that macro is running? 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: Visual Indicator that macro is running? 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: Visual Indicator that macro is running? 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: Visual Indicator that macro is running? 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: Visual Indicator that macro is running? 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: Visual Indicator that macro is running? 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: Visual Indicator that macro is running? 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: Visual Indicator that macro is running? 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: Visual Indicator that macro is running? 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: Visual Indicator that macro is running? 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: Visual Indicator that macro is running? Tag: 44820

I would like for a user of one of my forms be able to have some
indication that a macro is or is not running. There is a custom
toolbar that has the macro button on it. Any way to make the
button's appearance change when the macro runs. Or any other
ideas of how a user can quickly ascertain the status of a macro?

TIA - Steve

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RE: Visual Indicator that macro is running? by anonymous

anonymous
Mon Jan 26 10:21:04 CST 2004

Hi Steve

Maybe you could use something like the following

System.Cursor = wdCursorWai
''' your routin
System.Cursor = wdCursorNorma

HTH,
Dave

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RE: Visual Indicator that macro is running? by Steve

Steve
Mon Jan 26 10:21:42 CST 2004

Thanks much - it works!!

=?Utf-8?B?RGF2ZSBMZXR0?= <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote in news:6B42A985-0932-4AA0-A6D3-
20BA628953EC@microsoft.com:

> Hi Steve,
>
> Maybe you could use something like the following:
>
> System.Cursor = wdCursorWait
> ''' your routine
> System.Cursor = wdCursorNormal
>
>
> HTH,
> Dave
>

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