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Thanks.

What about deleting Normal.dot or Normal.dotx?

Ian

It worked perfectly. Thanks.

I guess I’m just a little shocked. I’ve been using WOPR for 15 years. I feel a bit left high and dry.

Having the same problem. Just installed word 2003 on a new machine with XP. Is there no more support for WOPR?

Regarding the new machine problem: In the old days, you could record a macro of yourself visiting each tab of the Options dialog. When the recorded macro was run on the second machine, the Options dialog would be set to match the first machine. However, I don’t know how well that works in the more recent versions of Word.

(Note: it is most convenient to create the recorded macro in a new blank document so its easy to find and hard to accidentally re-run later.)

Thanks for this.

Hello Ian Wilson
There’s a summary of where Word stores all kinds of settings at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822005 – you have to scroll all the way down to the end to get to it. Does that help?

Regards

Ah messing with the Registry, scares me but thanks for pointing me in the right direction. How typical of MicroSoft: Why not have all these preferences in a preference file. You know, the way Apple does it. Lovely.

Outlook 2007 apparently allows you to forward with attachment as the default but we can find no way to reply with attachment — a feature that Lotus Notes routinely offered. Having to forward as opposed to reply means you have to round up all the addresses from the original and put them back in the document. Inefficient and error prone and time consuming.

Our Outlook people can’t answer this. Research on the internet seems to indicate it’s a problem for more than just my company.

Solutions — if they exist — welcome.

UPDATE: So I finally figured out how to search the Lounge here and found directions to a Macro from Sue Mosher. Will this still work for Outlook 2007, I wonder? Once installed, do I just assign it to a shortcut key?

Rant alert!: Please do not tell me that the sender already has the attachment and doesn’t need it back in the reply. That would mean you obviously don’t work in a large office and don’t understand that having the original item attached in all correspondence is critical for record keeping purposes regardless of how much space it takes up on the server. You may sense I’ve asked this elsewhere and been responded to by folks who purport to do my job better for me rather than answer the question. So sorry for being snippy here.

A couple of hours after I put up my help post, I came to the same conclusion as your response. It’s a Belkin card. I did get the most recent drivers and I even contacted them. Tech Support said, sure it’s fine with WPA but it turns out they’re just making stuff up. The card apparently was never intended for anything other than WEP and doesn’t seem to have the capacity for an upgrade. This took some time to find out from people who had also purchased the same card. I suspect the reason for this is that the cards are so cheap, why should Belkin bother with functionality. But all it makes me is @#$!% off at Belkin and determined not to buy their products anymore. Anyway, it’s a hardware issue which I’ll have to solve for. Thanks for your help.

Thanks. I had found this one already.

Well that’s the answer — except that the socalled seach function in Windows is clunky and difficult. Thanks.

Thanks for all the suggestions. Turns out it’s a MicroSoft boondoggle. I had just installed the program and didn’t understand why they sent along Office SP2. Therein lies the secret. Apparently there’s some registry screwup that keeps the Task Pane open even if you don’t have it checked in Tools/Options/View. Office SP2 corrected it.

What was I missing was putting it in its own code module. I had just added to a module that had a bunch of macros in it. But putting it in its own made it run perfectly. Many thanks.

Hans,

Thanks but I’m just not getting it as you’ve explained. Sorry.

If I create a macro that’s just what you’ve written as Sub ReplaceMany, I get an error that no function is described.

The only way I was able to get this to work was this but it’s hard to believe you meant to have to do this each time:

Sub ReplaceMany()
With Selection.Find
.ClearFormatting
.Replacement.ClearFormatting
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = blnWholeWord
.MatchWildcards = False
If Selection.Type = wdSelectionIP Then
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
Else
.Wrap = wdFindStop
End If
.Text = “three”
.Replacement.Text = “3”
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End With
With Selection.Find
.ClearFormatting
.Replacement.ClearFormatting
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = blnWholeWord
.MatchWildcards = False
If Selection.Type = wdSelectionIP Then
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
Else
.Wrap = wdFindStop
End If
.Text = “one hundred percent”
.Replacement.Text = “100%”
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End With

With Selection.Find
.ClearFormatting
.Replacement.ClearFormatting
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = blnWholeWord
.MatchWildcards = False
If Selection.Type = wdSelectionIP Then
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
Else
.Wrap = wdFindStop
End If
.Text = “shall not”
.Replacement.Text = “with”
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End With
End Sub

First operation: Find “three” Replace with “3”
Second operation: Find “one hundred percent” Replace with “100%”
Third operation: Find “shall not” Replace with “won’t”

and so on.

I’ve written individual macros for each of the operations. But that means manually performing them. What I want to be able to do is put them together serially so that the first Find/Replace (or macro) runs, then the second, and so on.

Bravo!!!! It seems to work perfectly. Many thanks.