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    - how can I make a doc. in word with option buttons Does anyone know how I can make option buttons in a word document and make it to where they have to be answered, I believe it may involve macros, but I know nothing about macros. Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89300
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    - Word to PDF without print driver Hello! It's great that new Word 2007 will have "Publish to PDF" add-in, which creates PDF files *without using printer driver*. Currently I use FinePrint pdfFactory to convert .doc files to PDF, but it is implemented as "virtual printer" driver. http://www.fineprint.com/ Similar solution is free PDFCreator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDFCreator Is there an add-in that enables to save Word files as PDF for older versions of Word (2000/XP/2003), that does not rely on printer driver? BTW, it seems that "Publish to PDF" functionality will be implemented as additional download&install http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms406051.aspx Also I would like to know, since Open XML support ( and ODF support, that will base on Open XML awareness) will be added to older Word version ), http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/beta/converter.mspx http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2006/07/05/657510.aspx [quote] The Open XML formats that are going to be the default in Office 2007 are going to be the most important in my mind. It's the Open XML formats that allow us to build the ODF support (and will open doors to a number of other formats as well). The PDF and XPS functionality would be another example of new formats we're providing this release. [/quote] whether PDF support will be added to Word XP/2003 Thanks, Roman Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89291
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    - Word 2003 - Automating Letter Template I have a letter template, complete with fillin fields for name/address, subject, salutation etc which all works fine. When it comes to completing the body of the letter, I'd prefer NOT to use a fillin field, but to perhaps automatically move the cursor to the correct point once all fillin fields have been completed. Is there another field I could use, perhaps witha bookmark? Any suggestion gratefully accepted. TIA Amanda Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89285
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    - Changing font for unicode characters Hi, I had a problem in MS Word that started off from the Equation Editor. Somehow some of my definitions for font styles seemed to be reset and I (apparently) mistakenly thought that I had set Palatino Linotype as the font for _everything_, but actually I discovered that I only get correct rendering if "Symbol" is set to the Symbol font. Otherwise minus sign (or "en dash"), "identical to" and other characters come out 'wrong'. You can play around with this if you're interested, but it's more by way of background to my actual question. I wondered why the "identical to" character (Unicode 2261 [HEX]) wasn't rendering correctly in Equation Editor with "Symbol" is set to the Palatino Linotype font. I decided to investigate the rendering of the font in the body of the document in a variety of fonts ...in fact, _every_ installed font. Therefore I created and ran the following macro: Sub macro2() For Each afont In FontNames Selection.Font.Name = afont Selection.InsertAfter "2261" Selection.ToggleCharacterCode Selection.InsertAfter " " & afont & vbCr Selection.EndKey Unit:=wdStory Next afont End Sub This should run fine for you provided your security settings are apropriately configured. It is not convenient to reproduce the output, as it spans several pages, but I found that the results were not as expected. For example, for what should have been Palatino Linotype, the "identical to" character was rendered in Arial Unicode MS. As I watched the Selection.Font as the code was stepped through, I noticed that discrepancies arose between Selection.Font.Name Selection.Font.NameAscii Selection.Font.NameBi Selection.Font.NameFarEast and Selection.Font.Name.Other Is this an application 'feature', a known MS bug, an unknown MS bug, or is _my_ code buggy? Thanks for your comments, DIV Versions: Equation Editor: 3.1 Word: 11.8026.8028 SP2 XP: 5.1.2600 SP2 Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89275
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    - transparencia como devo proceder para fazer uma transparencia? e cartao de visitas Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89272
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    - How can I tell if my file has been saved already? I have a template, with fill-in form fields. I have a working macro to 'SaveAs' the document as it exits a particular form field. But I want to execute the SaveAs macro only if it's a new document and has not been saved before. Is there a way to set up an if statement to tell if the file is new or has been saved already? Thanks, Ruth Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89269
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    - How about a Moderator to get rid of the non-computer "junk" posts How about a moderator to get rid of the non-computer related posts (i.e. Dogs in China, A Good Sexy Hotline, etc.)? Brendan ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=8a1b9656-8ae0-4855-bb38-1549b3174558&dg=microsoft.public.word.vba.general Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89266
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    - =?Utf-8?Q?How_to_change_security_settings_?= I have to deploy a template to over 30 computers with some of the computers having different users (Running Windows 2000). The problem is that each user has to change their security setting from High to Medium to run the template. Is there a way to simplify this (ie. modify one normal.dot file and deploy it to all the computers via the network so each user does not have to manually change their setting)? Or is this security setting housed somewhere else? Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89265
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    - Approval VBA Macro We have documents that need to go through a formal approval process. Without getting into workflow, etc..., I just need a simple macro that will grab the currently logged on userid along with the date/time stamp. I'm a novice vba user and have done some vba stuff in Excel. Actually, I was able to do this in Excel by creating a control box and when the user clicked either Yes or No, their username and the date/time stamp appeared next to the check box. Oh, in Excel I have two checkboxes, one for yes and one for no. If they change their mind and uncheck the box then their username and date/time disappear. I need this same functionality in Word as well as to have these "approval" fields locked after it is accepted or rejected (for auditing purposes). I have found some Word code but it makes no sense to me because unlike Excel there are no cell, sheet, etc... references. I would appreciate any help I can get on this. Thanks! Randy Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89264
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    - Trying to copy formatted text _without_ Style? I get documents with a mish-mash of styles and formatting applied directly to the text. I am wondering if there is some way I could copy all of the text and any direct formatting over into a new doc based on my own template, but not any styles. I tried FormattedText in VBA, but the style came into the new document with the text - so did Edit>>Paste Special>>RTF. I'm beginning to think I would need to crawl through every word of every paragraph, capture any formatting applied in an array, paste the text over as unformatted, then read the paragraph word by word and apply any formatting in the array. Is there an easier way? Ed Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89263
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    - security - read-only recommended Hello, Through VB and the Word object model is it possible to un-select the tools > options > security > Read-only recommended check box? thanks Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89262
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    - OCX Form Field Collection Form fields inserted into a document from the Forms toolbar can be accessed by ActiveDocument.FormFields("formfieldname"). This does not work for fields inserted into the same document from the Control Toolbox. In a Userform, you can use the Controls collection but I can't figure out how to access the fields inserted from the Controls Toolbox. I want to write a construct like: For each ctl in Controls... Is there a way to do this? Thanks, Peter Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89261
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    - Problem with FormattedText Doing a mailmerge from Excel with Word automation. I am altering a document and then doing SaveAs. This runs in a loop and after doing SaveAs I need the original document to do the same again. Rather than closing and reopening this document I prefer to keep the text + formatting in a range variable and putting that back. Only reason for this is that is quicker. This is the simplified code I have: Dim wd As Object 'need to add Word here as there also is a DAO Document! Dim Doc As Word.Document Dim rngAllText As Word.Range Set wd = CreateObject("Word.Application") Set Doc = wd.Documents.Open(strLetterDoc) Set rngAllText = Doc.Content.FormattedText.Duplicate 'alter the document here 'do SaveAs here Doc.Content.FormattedText = rngAllText At this line line I get error 5937: Cannot copy content between these 2 ranges. Thanks for any advice in this. RBS Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89259
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    - How to write a smart document How to create a Smart Document How to use XML in it How to certify XML file Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89258
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    - *.dot won't run a "Document_Open" Macro when opened from Netwrk Se I have a *.dot file that is setup on our network server for users to access. The document opens fine but I need to force open a User Form (UserForm1) as soon as the template opens. Additionally, if I run the template from my local machine I can get the User Form to open via the below code. Private Sub Document_Open() Application.Run MacroName:="goPCDFiller" End Sub (1) What code to I need to execute to get the template to open the User form when it is deployed on a network server? (2) Also, is there a code available that forces open WORD to view/run the template because many of our users have â??Quick View Plusâ?? installed (which is fine) but it takes over the *.doc and *.dot files when the user tries to open one of them. Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89257
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    - Word 2007: Binding customXML to Content Control Hi I have been trying to get my own XML file working with Content Controls. But I can not find a way to define the x-path binding to my xml. I will be very happy if any of you can give me a hint on how to define the mapping (from within word 2007 - beta 2). Best Regards, Kaj Bromose Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89256
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    - Printing Forms from Macros I have created some protected forms for users but I also have a customized printing menu. This enables the users to print to different paper trays (we have several) easily without having to go CTRl P change the paper type and remember which tray is which each time. My printing menu lists the paper trays by type. How can I get the Printing macros to print the protected forms. If I try at the moment I get Run-time Error 4605. Any help would be greatly appreciated. JayM Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89249
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    - Interacting with oracle DB from VBA without Oracle Client on PC? Hi all, I noticed that their are some solutions for VB.NET to connect to an Oracle Database without having an Oracle client on your PC (for eample Core Lab's OraDirect .Net Dataprovider). Installing and maintainig Oracle clients is considered to be a pain (various Database versions require different clients) and is avoided by using more and more web based applications from Oracle. Only for Word VBA stuff I need an oracle client to be present on all machines. I was wondering if anyone has ever tried this from VBA as I would love to get rid of the Oracle client. Kind regards, rVo Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89245
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    - problems with the word-exel comand Hi, I have a file that first save each one of the words of a document, after that, it paste the words in an excel file and then counts and deletes the repeated words, my problem is in the exl.sort command, the program breaks when it arrives to the sort procedure of excel, I attached the code, please help Sub Macro1() Dim arr1() cntr1 = 0 a = ActiveDocument.Characters.Count For n = 1 To a If ActiveDocument.Characters(n).Text = " " Then cntr1 = cntr1 + 1 ReDim Preserve arr1(cntr1) arr1(cntr1) = word1 letter1 = Empty word1 = Empty Else letter1 = ActiveDocument.Characters(n).Text word1 = word1 + letter1 End If Next Set exl = CreateObject("excel.Application") exl.workbooks.Add exl.Visible = True exl.Cells(1, 1).Select cntr3 = 1 For cntr3 = 1 To UBound(arr1) exl.Cells(cntr3 + 1, 1) = arr1(cntr3) Next exl.Columns("A:A").Select â??â??â??â??â??â??â??â??â??â??â??â??â??â??â??â??â??â??â??â??â??â??â??â??The program breaks here exl.Selection.Sort Key1:=Range("A2"), Order1:=xlDescending, Header:=xlYes, _ OrderCustom:=1, MatchCase:=False, Orientation:=xlTopToBottom, _ DataOption1:=xlSortNormal â??â??â??â??â??â??â??â??â??â??â??â??â??â??â??â??â??â??â??â??â??â??â??â??The program breaks here For b = 2 To UBound(arr1) cntr12 = 1 For C = 2 To UBound(arr1) If exl.activesheet.Cells(b, 1) = exl.activesheet.Cells(C, 1) And b <> C Then exl.Rows(C).Delete C = C - 1 cntr12 = cntr12 + 1 If exl.Cells(C, 1) = Empty Then GoTo endsub End If End If Next exl.Cells(b, 2) = cntr12 Next exl.Range("A1") = "Word" exl.Range("B1") = "Counter" exl.Columns("A:A").Sort Key1:=Range("A2"), Order1:=xlAscending, Header:=xlYes, _ OrderCustom:=1, MatchCase:=False, Orientation:=xlTopToBottom, _ DataOption1:=xlSortNormal endsub: End Sub thanks Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89244
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    - reformating a string... Hello, I have a word document that looks as follows: {"word1 / word1a"}, {"word2 / word2a"}, {"word3 / word3a"}, ..... {"word1000 / word1000a"} What I need to do is remove the '/ wordxa' from the document so it looks like this: {"word1"}, {"word2"}, {"word3"}, ..... {"word1000"} Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, RABMissouri2006 Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89239
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    - Adding watermark to every page Hi all, I have a bit of a panic on the go here and would like to ask for assistance. Can anyone suggest how I could programmatically (using VBA) add a watermark to every page in every section in a 10 to 20 page word doc? I want to add the word "COPY". I thought maybe I could add a specific sized textbox with hidden borders, containing COPY in large pale grey font colour (maybe running vertically in the textbox). Then set the textbox to appear behind the normal text. How on earth I would go about that, I dont have the faintest idea. Anyone prepared to offer help or suggest an alternative method? Unfortunately I dont have enough time to try and fubble around for days on end like I isually do. Any help or suggested code would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks Gem_man Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89236
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    - VBA Reading a Word Document's Form Field into a User Form Text Box How do I grab the value from an Form Field in an active document and then place that value into a User Form that has a corresponding text box. I thought it would be something like this but I canâ??t seem to get it to work. Private Sub UserForm1_Initialize() Me.tbLastFirstMiddle.Value = ActiveDocument.FormFields("docLastFirstMiddle") End Sub Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89232
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    - Header/Footer not protected in form Hello, I have a document template protected for forms. When the user creates a new document based on the template, they can click on the header. This switches them from page layout view to normal view and creates a header pane at the bottom of the document to allow the user to edit the header. This is not what I want. I don't want the users to be able to touch the header in any way. The reason I need a header is that the form fields are in table rows and can expand, causing the document to end up with more pages than the template it was based on. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89225
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    - printing to multiple printers with macro? Is there a macro that I could write that could print a MS word file to one printer, and then also print it to another printer . Both printers are remote / network printers Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89216
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    - Hiding text based on custom document property Good afternoon, all, I am trying to show/hide text based on a custom document property, Audience. When my document opens, a form appears with three options, All, Agency, and Program Office. Here is the code behind the form button's onClick event: Private Sub cmdOpen_Click() Dim st As style If Me.Controls("optAll").Value Then ActiveDocument.CustomDocumentProperties("Audience").Value = "All" ElseIf Me.Controls("optAgency").Value Then ActiveDocument.CustomDocumentProperties("Audience").Value = "Agency" Else ActiveDocument.CustomDocumentProperties("Audience").Value = "ProgramOffice" End If If Me.Controls("optAll").Value Then For Each st In ActiveDocument.Styles If InStr(st.NameLocal, "Agency") > 0 Then st.Font.Color = wdColorBrightGreen st.Font.Hidden = False ElseIf InStr(st.NameLocal, "ProgramOffice") > 0 Then st.Font.Color = wdColorRed st.Font.Hidden = False End If Next Else For Each st In ActiveDocument.Styles st.Font.Color = wdColorAutomatic If InStr(st.NameLocal, "Agency") > 0 Then st.Font.Hidden = Not Me.Controls("optAgency").Value ElseIf InStr(st.NameLocal, "ProgramOffice") > 0 Then st.Font.Hidden = Not Me.Controls("optProgramOffice").Value End If Next st End If ActiveWindow.View.ShowHiddenText = False frmAudience.hide End Sub So...first I set the custom document property. If the user chooses the option labelled All (which I would do when I am creating this manual) I want to show all styles, with any style containing the word 'Agency' in its name showing as bright green text and any style with ProgramOffice showing as red. If the user choosed the option labelled "Agency" I want only the styles containing 'Agency' to show, and have all styles containing 'ProgramOffice' to be hidden. So, I set the Hidden property of all the styles containing Agency to the opposite of the option control. In other words, if Agency was selected, then Me.Controls("optAgency").Value will be true, and I want the font for the styles containing 'Agency' to have a hidden property of false. The problem is that after running the lines that assign the value to st.Font.hidden, st.Font.hidden equals -1. I found one posting that I didn't really understand, but it seemed to say that this was because the style was a paragraph style. So, can I do what I want? If so, what am I missing? Any ideas, resources, references would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Kathryn Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89212
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    - VBA into already created table(s) in a Header or Footer MS Word - VBA into Header or Footer (and into a table in the same) Is there a way to allow gain access to a header or footer in Word via VBA? I have a one page form full of tables (Page 1) and the narrative begins on Page 2. There is a header and footer on page 2 and subsequent pages (but not on page 1). The header and footer have tables and I need to be able to bookmark the tables somehow and copy certain data from page 1 to this header and footer. As I see it, there are two ways to do it: #1 Use a VBA â??prompt boxâ?? (UserForm) for the data to be captured and force the data into the header for footer as well as certain fields on Page 1. OR #2 Have a macro run on a Text Form Field "EXIT" which automatically COPIES and PASTES data from Page 1 to the header & footer on Page 2 I have tried where â??tblLastFirstMiddleâ?? is the Form Text Field / Bookmark and vLastFirstMiddle is the text box control on VBA UserForm. ActiveDocument.FormFields("tblLastFirstMiddle").Result = vLastFirstMiddle.Value This works fine for Page 1 but I have yet to be able to (1) manually place a bookmark / text form field in an already created header or footer and (2) call that bookmark in the header or footer and (3) Copy and Paste the data into it. Any suggestions? Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89210
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    - lost my office disk i con't open work downloads. what to do lost my office disk i con't open work downloads. what to do Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89202
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    - Form Field Entry & Exit Macro drop-down list Does anyone know where the list of macros is taken from for the entry and exit macro for form fields? I am building a form and have added a textbox. I want to execute a macro on exit. When I click on the drop-down list associated with the exit macro on the Text Form Field Options dialog box, the only macros I see are ones in my Normal.dot file. I want to select a macro I have written in the form which has been saved as a .dot file. Thanks! Peter Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89193
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    - HOWTO Keep original document name after a forced SaveAs. HOWTO Keep original document name after a forced SaveAs. Please help, I have script to force the current document to be saved using the ThisDocument.SaveAs method. After I invoke the SaveAs, the "Name" of the document changes from whatever it was to the path name I give in the "SaveAs" call. I want the name to go back to the original name, but the ThisDocument.Name property is read only, and won't let me change it back. How can one do this? Is there a way to change the name back? Is there perhaps a way the "ThisDocument" can be copied to a dummy document, then the dummy saved via SaveAs and then destroyed without any GUI? Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89192
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    - RegEx Range.Text object corrupting embedded footnotes I have a macro which processes text using Regular Expressions (to find run-in heads in paragraphs). It seems that regular expressions will only work on the Range.Text object and not Range.FormattedText. I thought I had most of the kinks worked out of this but found a new wrinkle yesterday. It seems that, if the text of a paragraph is altered by a RegEx, then the embedded footnotes in that paragraph are broken. I have a sense that this is because the proper information isn't be passed back to the document by the Range.Text object when a replacement is made (duh). Before I sit down and write a macro that cuts out the embedded footnotes and replaces them with a marker before the RegEx is run and then reverses the replacement after the RegEx is run, I thought I would check with the experts and see if there are any better (and easier) approaches out there. I have tried replacing the RegEx searches with S/R using Word's wildcard search options but can't achieve the desired search complexity with them. I always run into the "expression is to complex" error. As a side question, are the limitations of Word's Wildcard Search listed anywhere. The one major one I've encountered is the limitation to 7 groups instead of the regular 9. There seem to be others but I can't recall them right now. Anyway, any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, Jeff Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89190
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    - cehck for page numbers in footer word doc hi i need to check with visual basic macro if a page number is define in a word file. i need to know if any kind of page number is exist by the code and how to remove it thanks Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89187
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    - custom dictionaries seem to get corrupted Dear all, My custom dictionaries (for spelling checks) often don't accept newly added terms, or I have to klick 'Add' twice before a new entry is added, and then, Word stops again at newly added term as if they weren't already in the dic file. Now when I open the dic file, some entries seem to be displayed vertically (ech letter is a new entry). Other entries are in the file twice (AV-button). Can anyone explain/solve this behavior? Shirley Nomey Word XP 2002 on Windows XP SP2. AMD AV-button C o n f i g F r e e H T M L - c o d e H T M L - AV-button AV-features AV-solution AV-PC BDJ Blu Blue-ray Bluetooth Centrino Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89185
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    - How do I code VBA to hit button on a different worksheet? I have a protected worksheet that has a button that I want to execute using VBA. The worksheet in question is protected with the exception of certain cells where I can paste values. I am creating a VBA to do all the pasting but I can't figure out how to execute the button. Run or Call don't work. Help. TIA. Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89181
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    - Word 2003 page numbers Is it possible to read the page number of a word document at the cursor location from VBA? Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89176
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    - Saving documents from templates with form field information I have a template with multiple text and number form fields, including 'project number', 'project manager', and 'site name'. I want to set up a standard naming convention for the documents from this template with a combination of the form fields. I then want to set up a macro to save the document with that name. For example: I want to save and name the document "project number-project manager-site name.doc", where each of those variables are the actual data that the user has filled in the form. I have bookmark-named all of the fields on the template. I have also selected the "calculate on exit" checkbox on all of the fields. I see how to set up a calculated field on the form, but it won't work with text fields. I also see how to set up a cross-reference, but that's only to one bookmark at a time. Any ideas? Thanks, Ruth Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89171
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    - Find Blank lines between paragraph I am very new in vb. I need to find blank lines between paragraphs and get the particular paragraph. For example: alksdjf alkdjf alkdjf alskdjf aldfj a;dfljkaldfj.da flkd;sa jflkdsa jf;ldkj f;lakjd fkasdj f;ajd fadsf df aldfjakldf. sdlfkj aslkdf jalksd fjlakdj faldsk fald [SDF SDFK SDF]. adklf ajdkl;fj alksdjf alskdjf .adj.fka jdfk.adf.adfa. So, basically i want to get second paragraph since the tag([SDF SDFK SDF]) is in second one so with the index of "[", I am trying to get text after the blank line and before the blank line at the end of the paragraph.. Any idea if somebody can help that would be great. thanks Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89170
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    - AutoText Global Template Hi Is there a way that a group of workers can all share the same autotext entries and, importantly, all add entries for the others to use? To be successful, the facility would need to allow any of them to add their own entries for the benefit of the others in the group, just as simply as if they were adding an entry to their own Normal.dot. Thanks Dave Tag: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader Tag: 89166
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I would like to set a tab leader but the set option is grayed.

Re: How do I enable 'Set' in Tab Leader by Doug

Doug
Thu Aug 10 14:35:23 CDT 2006

Do you have an entry in the "Tab stop position" control of the Tabs dialog?

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>I would like to set a tab leader but the set option is grayed.

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