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Another thought (then I’m going to bed). You can simplify the above. Since you’ll probably want your numpages field to include all the pages that went before, make this change. It will actually make it easier to create the first formula field also.

Instead of {the formula in my first post} of {numpages}, use
{={INCLUDETEXT “previous chapter.doc” bk !} + {PAGE}} of
{={INCLUDETEXT “previous chapter.doc” bk !} +{NUMPAGES}}. In this example, you bookmark {NUMBPAGES} in the first chapter. In each subsequent chapter, you bookmark the “calculated numpages field”.

I hope this makes sense. It’s after 1AM & I should get off the computer.

By the way, you can also use Office Binder, if you have it. That’s probably its best feature.

Hi KT:
Yes, you can. There may be more than one solution, but here’s one that I came up with. I assume that in each Chapter, you’ve put in your footer something like page x of y, where x=page number of that document, & y = number of pages.

In each chapter, bookmark the NUMPAGE field (let’s call it bk). You can bookmark each NUMPAGE field with the same bookmark, since they’re in different files. Then for, say, Chapter 3, instead of {PAGE} of {NUMPAGES}, use this:

{ ={ includetext “Chapter 1.doc” bk ! } + { includetext “Chapter 2.doc” bk ! } + { page } }

This is a formula where the {INCLUDETEXT} field includes the bookmark from the previous chapters & adds them up. Since the bookmark is to the {NUMPAGES} field in each file, it equals the number of pages for each chapter. Note that you must use the ! switch to prevent these fields from “updating” in the file you’ve inserted them in. Otherwise, the field wouldn’t represent the number of pages in the source file. Then you add the final {PAGE} field, which increments by 1 for each page in the current chapter.

Also, if for some reason you didn’t want the {NUMPAGES} field to show, you could format it as hidden text (I haven’t tried this, but I think it would work).

Note also: the above formula assumes that each chapter is in the same folder. Otherwise, you will have to use the full pathname & use double slashes (e.g. “C:My DocumentsFolderSubfolderChapter 1.doc”).

Hope this helps.

Hi Dave:
I didn’t quite follow something in your response. Are you saying not to use the SR-1a download, only the CD. You said something about not getting the SR@.

Hi Gary:
I’m guessing that Word keeps track internally, the way they keep track of which built-in templates go on which tabs in File/New.

I remember in Word 6 & 7, you had a choice of inserting a formatted or unformatted autotext entry. I don’t see that option in Word 2000.

Hi Gary:
I ran the macro again. Only some of the AutoText entries come out red & bold–the built-in ones. i.e. the ones that say CERTIFIED MAIL, Respectfully, Yours truly, etc.

All the ones that I created come out fine. I know that the entries I created are stored with their formatting. I wonder if the built-in ones are not. That would make sense, I suppose, so that the closings would be in the same font & color as the body of a letter.

On Word 2000, do your built-in AutoText entries come out red & bold?

Thanks again.

To delete specific autocomplete URLs, go to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerTypedURLs
& delete values.

Hope this helps.

Hi Gary:
Great macro. Is there a way that it could list the name of the autotext entry in bold italic & then list the entry the with it’s true formatting?

I found that it lists everything–name & entry–in bold. (I know how to get the “red” out (somebody’s going to say Visine.

Thanks in advance,

Hi Gary & Dave:
I don’t think this will cause a prompt to save a template. You can’t set both Automatically update & Add to Template for a style. You can only set the former.

Format/Style/Modify/Automatically update means that your document style will change whenever you manually format a paragraph. That should not cause a change in a template.

Format/Style/Modify/Add to template won’t stay checked. It’s a way to copy a document style to a template. That will cause a prompt to save the template, but only the one time you use it.

Like Dave, I tend to stay away from “automatic” changes. It’s only useful when you are developing new styles & are experimenting. Rather than have to add manual formatting, click in the dialog box & press , each time you make a change (& then tell Word you don’t want to reapply the style), you only have to apply manual formatting. It then updates all the paragraphs that have that style. After it’s served it’s usefullness, I think it’s best to turn it back off.

Anyhow, I think the original poster (I can’t see who it was because there’s no split screen should look to see if there’s an add-in or macro that’s causing the changes.

Hope this helps.

Hi Dave:
I come up with a somewhat different result than you, if I understand your post. Suppose I have a different normal style than you do, and I create (or use Word’s built-in styles that are based on the normal style) to create a document. I then send the document to you.

Regardless of your style definitions (almost), you should see the document as I created it, with my styles. The hierarchy that Word uses for style definitions is document, attached template, normal template. So if I have three different styles called Style1, one with Arial font in a document, one in Garamond font in an attached template, & one in Times New Roman in the normal template, & I send you the document, Style1 should be Arial. That’s true even if you attach it to your own custom template with Style1 or have a totally different Style1 in the normal template.

I know of only a few times that this won’t be true (but I’d be happy to know if you find this wrong). It won’t be true if:
1. There is some display problem (perhaps video driver)
2. The font doesn’t exist on the 2nd computer (& was not embedded in the document).
3. The document is set to “update document styles”, so that the original styles are overwritten by the attached template styles.
4. The property was not defined in the original style. For example, most styles have font color set to “automatic”, or undefined. If you define your normal style as green, & I send you a style based on my normal style with color undefined, it will turn green on your machine (maybe it’s just envious).

If you have different results that aren’t based on one of those, I’d really like to know. At the same time, I agree that it’s best to create styles that are not based on normal & have unique names when those files are likely to be shared with others.

Turn off journalling in Outlook. Tools/Options/ Preferences tab/Journal Options… Make sure your not tracking anything.
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Hope this helps.

I admit that people could post to the wrong group. But, of course, that would be an arguement to have only 1 forum, and clearly that’s not advantageous. I think people know that they’re using IE or Netscape just as easily as they know that they’re using Word or Word Perfect. After all, we don’t have a fourm for “word processers” or “spreadsheets”. (I know. The latter isn’t a good example because we only have a forum for one spreadsheet.) But we have a forum for each application, plus VBA.

And, yes, Howard would complain if he were hung with a new rope, but only until it tightened. But I have to say, he’s usually right about things, if not popular. (That didn’t hurt as much as I thought it would.

Just to take up the minority kudgel, I agree with Howard. I have both Netscape & IE & use them both. But the problems are separate…& so are people’s expertise. I know it’s nice to say that everyone should put in NS or IE in every new post, but you know people won’t.

Besides, Howard seems to be losing in every request (emoticons, attachments, etc.). I’d hate to see him get discouraged.

I only have Word 2000, but you can only rotate drawing objects. What you can do it double click it to open it in another drawing program, such as MS Photo Editor, & rotate it there. When you close the Photo Editor, the .jpg image will stay rotated.

With some objects, such as clipart, (but not .jpg, so far as I know), you can select it, ungroup it & then group it again, to convert it to a drawing object. The object must be in the drawing layer (not inline) in order to do this. Another way of doing this, is to select the clipart, diassasemble the picture, & then group it.

Hope this helps.

Well, thank you both Tom & Howard. I’ve been using the less technical one but I think I’ll try both from now on.