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Sounds great!! However, two questions:

1. From time to time I am still noticing the same error I mentioned (“Page Error! Main Document Only”). I cannot tell what is triggering this. F9 does not trigger it. It just appears sometimes.
2. I tried this with and without the c switch and saw no difference, even after I updated the field. In what cases would this be necessary?

Thanks for the help!!
Troy

Hans,
I forgot I could open a text file in Excel. I actually started with a text file that I opened in Word.

This works great!

Thanks!!
Troy

Your table idea is interesting, but would not work for this situation. The writer is looking to have a guide with instructor notes on even pages and student text on odd pages.

In the past, they have maintained two separate documents and combined the two by creative collating or printing one document and putting the pages back in the printer turned the right way and printing the other document on the other side of the page.

They were hoping to put them in the same document.

The limitation on the number of linked text boxes makes that option no good either.

It seems like the best option may be to keep doing things as they have. However, if you or anyone has other ideas, I am open to suggestions.

Thanks!!
Troy

Thanks for your quick response!! That did the trick!!

Troy

When you have Use wildcards selected, you cannot use “” because they represent a beginning of word or end of word expression.

However, once I saw where the problem was (thanks to you), I did find a way around it by replacying the “<" with "^60".

Thanks for the help!!
Troy

That did the trick!! Thanks for the quick response!!

Troy

This works wonderfully!! Thanks!!

Now just one more thing (and you knew there would be, right?). I still need to deal with these Word drawing items. The way I deal with them will probably different each time, so it will be a manual process.

What I would like help in is a macro I can run to find and select each of these items. Is there a way to ignore all other shape types, and only find and select these items you generate from the Drawing toolbar in Word?

Just to be clear. I just want something to find the next item (allowing me to start wherever I am at in the document and look forward for the item, select it, and then stop. I’ll take it from there.

Thanks for so willingly sharing your expertise!!
Troy

Just found some additional information. This method seems to have done fine on graphics, but hiccuping at drawing objects like lines created inside Word.

Does that make any sense or give anyone an idea? Can these be skipped somehow?

Thanks!!
Troy

Sounds like reasonable advice. However, I am still getting the same error.

Any ideas?

Thanks!!
Troy

Hans,
That seems to mostly work. Thanks!!

I used the following code, mostly straight from the online help:

Dim s As Shape

For Each s In ActiveDocument.Shapes
s.Select
s.ConvertToInlineShape
‘ s.Select
Next s

However, after running it through my document, at least part way, I get an error:

Run-time error ‘4120’

Bad Parameter

Any ideas what this means?

Thanks!!
Troy

Everything looks right in the Page Numbering Formatting dialog box. It just doesn’t work in the footer.

As best I can tell, this document was produced from a document template originally created in Word 2000, edited most recently in Word 2003, and I am viewing them in Word 2007.

Since we cannot go back to Word 2000 or even Word 2002, what would you suggest to make this work in Word 2007?

Thanks!!
Troy

OK. I have attached a file. I stripped a lot of the content out, so don’t worry about that. It should be enough to see what I am dealing with.

Thanks again!!
Troy

That is great information! Just what I was looking for.

However, I have found another problem. If I open as plain text, it adds some funny characters to my file in several places. The file is actually XML but with an HTM extension on the file name.

Thus, when I try to open it, it tries to open as XML by default. If I do that, all I see in word are these XML tags and not the same text I see when I open in Notepad. If there is a way to see the same text I see in Notepad without adding all the funny characters, that would be great.

Thanks again for your help!!
Troy

Yes. Sorry, I should have said that. I am talking about opening txt files or actually “htm” files.