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Yes, it’s all very confusing. Actually, it’s unbelievable how confusing it it.

I realize now that VSTO was built for Office 2003. I still get error messages related to Visual Studio 2005 and Vista (update required, but when I run the update, nothing happens.) I’m giving up until the new VSTO comes out for Office 2007. (“orcas”?) Thanks for your tips.

Are you looking for an “ADVANCE” field code, to force text to a certain position down the page?

Insert menu, Field Code, Advance. The vertical distance is expressed in points. (12 for a standard line, 72 for an inch).

There is a trick to get heading rows to repeat after a “page break” –

Don’t insert a page break in the first place!

Instead, in the first column of the row where you want a page break, go to Format, Paragraph, Line and Page Breaks, Page Break Before!
Voila!

(This has worked at least since Word 2000.)

For LONG documents, I have two tips:

1. try switching to Normal view (if you’re not already using that view)

2. are you opening documents stored on a network drive instead of on your local C drive? If so, you could copy them down before working on them, or you can try this setting: Tools, Options, Save, check “Make a local copy of files stored on network or removable drives.” (if you have document management software, then most likely this isn’t necessary)

Word is using the date format from the “Regional and Language Options” control panel in Windows.

Go to Control Panels, Regional and Language Options, click on Regional and Language Options, Regional Options (tab), Customize, Date (tab) and modify the LONG DATE format. (you probably want “MMMM d, yyyy”)

You have to RESTART Word before you can see the change.

it would be easy if your request was: format anything in red that is greater than R99.99. Because then you could simply search for:
R^#^#^#.^#^# (it would find all prices greater than 99.99 – anything with 3 digits!)
replace with formatting: font, red, and you’ve got it. ( you could then quickly search for R100.00 and take the red off, if this is the exact price cut off you need.)

Be sure to then UNCHECK this checkbox.

If memory serves me, if another person opens your document, the styles will update to match THAT PERSON’s NORMAL.DOT’ style definitions. (so if Normal style is in Arial on your machine, and TNR on the next user’s the doc font will now be in TNR) Since the document is based on “Normal.dot” and everyone has a Normal.dot, this is probably behavior that you do not want.

This has always bothered me. You can select the entire table, and go to Table Properties, Cells, and attempt to set the cell margins back to the table default cell margins (by checking the “same as the whole table”), and it just won’t take. You could set the cell margins back to the table default, cell by cell. This sometimes works. If the value is “0” it ignores it.

Now that you reminded me that this is lacking… here’s a little macro that will reset each cell you have selected (one, a row, a column, etc.)

Sub ResetCellMargins()

Dim intCell As Integer
If Selection.Cells.Count > 0 Then
For intCell = 1 To Selection.Cells.Count
Selection.Cells(intCell).TopPadding = Selection.Tables(1).TopPadding
Selection.Cells(intCell).BottomPadding = Selection.Tables(1).BottomPadding
Selection.Cells(intCell).LeftPadding = Selection.Tables(1).LeftPadding
Selection.Cells(intCell).RightPadding = Selection.Tables(1).RightPadding
Next intCell
End If
End Sub

It’s like Ctrl Q for cell margins!

I never use the “ALL CAPS” setting on a style exactly for this reason. If a user wants all caps, type the text in caps. This ALL CAPS setting is more like a “MASK” than anything else. The underlining characters are in the case they were typed in. If you type in a style set to ALL CAPS, then later demote the level heading, yoU CoUld enD Up with a mEss. (as the user does not see the actual case when typing with the ALL CAPS on the style.)

On the other hand, if a user is savvy, and wanted the Headings for Level 1 to be in all caps, but then the TOC for that level in Title Case, the user (who is AWARE of what is going on), could TYPE the heading like this: Introduction to the Case. The heading style, with the ALL CAPS setting on the font (which I said earlier, I don’t normally use) would display in ALL CAPS, but the TOC would come out in Title Case. Some firms do like this look, and this is how it can be done.

There is no problem. This is Word behavior. Your remedy is:

The user with the gridlines off should:
1. close all documents, and Word.
2. restart Word
3. start a new blank document
4. insert a table
5. show table gridlines

Now, in all documents opened, gridlines will show. (Maybe I misunderstood, have you taken these steps and still Word hides gridlines on the next opened document?)

(Edited by HansV to make URL clickable – see Help 19)

this might be what you are looking for:

http://mousetrax.com/mastdoc.html%5B/url%5D

Two things to try:

1. instead of highlighting the entire document, check out the Normal style. make sure the “do not check” language attribute is not set on this style. Check any other style you may be using (check the style on a sample paragraph where the spelling is not running.) Once this is cleared, you may have to press Ctrl-Spacebar on a these paragraphs, to clear any direct formatting off the characters.

2. did you “reset” spelling? (Tools, Options, Spelling, Recheck Document).

Thank you! His code does exactly what I was looking for.

I have also had to disable IntelGraphics hotkeys (in Control Panel) at times, but never for Ctrl P or Ctrl S.

John
Thanks for the tips. For some reason, it is now searching the string properly without having to add quotes.
David