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Yes–we have also recently upgraded to Win2000/Word2000, printing through NT4 Servers.

However, I don’t quite understand what you’re proposing. Could you be a little more specific?

(Our NT4 Servers are setup to IP print to the client printers and do not use JetDirect.)

Thanks!

ooops. I meant click on the menu item Table | Properties.

One more thing to check–with your cursor in the Table, select Table | Options, on the “Table” tab, select “Options” and verify that “Automatically resize to fit contents” is NOT selected.

thank you, thank you, thank you. so embarassed, so humbled. oh my. so embarassed. so shamed.

can you direct me to Word template that you found? (and could you also reference/credit the board’s URL)? thanks.

(and, yes, a wizard does help you export. simply select File | Export and being with the option “Export to a file”; I believe that all the frequently used fields in the calendar will automatically be included in your export file.)

i’m not sure if there’s a better approach, but you could export your calendar items into an Excel spreadsheet which you could, in turn, use as a data file for a Word merge. i think this would give you a relatively easy approach for creating a simple text list of your appointments. unfortunately, i can’t readily think of an easy approach for creating a calendar-format in Word if that’s what you’re trying to accomplish.

sorry it took a couple of days to get back, but if you’re still toying with this…

i was able to re-create a pleading document in which the text began appearing above the margin at the top of the document as you described. And the culprit was–the Tools | Options | Compatibility option titled “Suppress extra line spacing at top of page”. It appears that this option suppresses too much extra line spacing when the other compatibility option is set to “Don’t center…”.

I also looked at how our California pleading template was set up–and it is set up with a text box with exact line height set to 23.5 and a font size of 13; the text in the pleading itself is set to a font size of 13 with exact line height of 23.5, except that a single-spaced style is set up with exact line height of 11.75. (i’m told that this is the specific rule in California (but i’m not a lawyer), except that some courts require a 14 point font size). the only option selected in Tools | Options | Compatibility is set to “Don’t center.” (NOTE: the text box must be set to have no internal spacing between the edges of the text box and the actual text inside the text box).

Finally, I simply ran a MS Word pleading template to see what it’s defaults were! And, Word’s pleading template produces a document with double-spaced styles specifying an exact line height of 25.4 with single-spaced styles having an exact line height of 12.7. I think these point sizes are chosen instead of 24/12 points to allow for leading between lines of text. More interesting, the MS Word pleading template produces a Compatibility set that selects three items: (1) the “Don’t Center” option; (2) “Adjust line height to grid height in the table” (i have no idea what that does!) and (3) “Suppress extra line spacing at BOTTOM of page” (to avoid having the blank space under the text on the last line of a page causing the entire line to skip to the next page–which should help you out on meeting your page limitations).

nonetheless, NOTE that all text in these documents ONLY use exact line heights with particular attention to using exactly the exact line height of the pleading line numbers (or half that to simulate single-spacing). This, in turn, requires that users do not copy the formatting of non-pleading text into a pleading (lest the pasted text comes into the document with double or single spacing instead of exact-line spacing). Since most people will not be able to adhere to the law (thou shalt only use exact line spacing paragraph formatting), you would probably need to have a macro that you could run when you’re finished with the pleading that would scan through a document and change the formatting of any single- or double-spaced paragraph to be replaced with the appropriate exact line height dimension. If you go this route, post back and I or someone else could help you with creating such a macro.

hopefully, this will be easier than trying to directly apply space-before and space-after. HOWEVER (and sorry if this is all too discouraging), since pleadings often contain footnotes–you should be advised that tinkering with line spacing, line height, space-before and space-after settings EXCEPT WITHIN THE DEFINITIONS OF PARAGRAPH STYLES will invariably cause footnotes to start appearing on the wrong pages, at least in Word 97 and Word 2000. (i can’t think of a macro approach that would correct any exceptions to this rule). And since pleadings often contain footnotes, this further demonstrates the ugliness of using Word in legal settings.

Oh, the wonders of market share…

in any case, hope this helps!

as another option, you could use the AutoSize property of the textbox to control its size. (setting the width at the end to restore its original width).

Private Sub btnExpand_Click()
With Me.TextBox1
.AutoSize = True
.AutoSize = False
.Width = 190
If .Height > 100 Then
.Height = 100
.ScrollBars = fmScrollBarsVertical
End If
End With
…

i couldn’t replicate your problem, but if you attach your document, I’d be happy to see if I can determine what’s wrong.

i also have no idea why microsoft decided to “center” or “bottom align” text with exact line height. possibly (and i’m out of my league here) a typesetting standard?

i’m not sure if i completely understand your problem, but it sounds similar to a case where…

going into Tools | Options, selecting the “Compatibility” tab and then checking the box named “Don’t Center Exact Line Height Lines” solved the problem. (in Word 2000, lines with exact line heights specified align at the bottom of their line height (leaving blank space above the text); double-spaced lines align at the top (leaving blank space after the text). Never mind the term “Center” used in the compatibility option.

hope this helps.

I’m not sure I remember how much Word97 page numbering, footers and sections differ from Word 2000, but here’s a thought from the Word2000 perspective…

Every section contains a footer, but in the Word interface, you only have access to view the footers that are actually used. Thus, for example, if a section 5 (marked with continuous breaks), appears in the middle of page 3, you will not be able to see the footer for section 5 in the VIew | Headers and Footers pane. You may want to add some page breaks in each section to ensure that, as you scroll through all the footers in your document, you see the footers for every section in your document.

There could be something evil lurking in a hidden footer (such as a page numbering option to start numbering at “2” for that section).

oops. did i say “evil lurking”? and weren’t you concerned about developing paranoia?

Thanks Andrew. That helped.

I had references to some missing global templates (which I had temporarily removed). I restored the global templates, and now my string functions work correctly–although I must confess that I have no idea why other VBA code modules would affect VBA’s ability to find its own string functions!

I had a similar problem in Word 2000 after I had edited a lot of command bars and shortcut menus. I never figured out what exactly caused the problem (and I’m not sure if this is particularly helpful), but after I started using code exclusively to change my command bars (so that I could always start from a blank, unaltered template) , the confused autotext-command bar issue went away.

Thanks Kevin. The .ExtractAddress command allows me to get the address in the dialog box, but ultimately, I would like to get the address in a string variable without displaying the built-in dialog box. In addition, even if I display the built-in dialog box, I seem to only capture the first line of the address (from the .AddrText property of the dialog box).

Any further ideas? Thanks!

My only thought is to verify that Outlook is the default e-mail application on those machines.