Allen Wyatt's WordTips

Displaying Properties Dialog Box in a Macro

2009-11-07T01:04:00-08:00

Word keeps track of identifying and statistical information about a document and makes that information available in the Properties dialog box. If you want to display that information within a macro, then you may be at a loss as to how to do it.

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Inserting a Document's Location

2009-11-07T01:03:00-08:00

Once you save a document on disk, it is stored in a particular folder (or location) on that disk. You may want that location to appear somewhere in your document. You can use the FileName field, discussed in this tip, to dynamically add that information.

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Centering a Paragraph with the Keyboard

2009-11-07T01:02:00-08:00

Need a quick shortcut that you can use to center your paragraph between the margins? The answer is here.

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Repeating In a Macro

2009-11-07T01:01:00-08:00

Macros are often used to process information stored in documents. Usually the processing involves some sort of iterative action within the document, such as doing a search and every time the searched-for item is found, perform a task. Understanding how to perform this type of repeating can be very powerful.

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Help Wanted: Unprotecting a Word 2003 Form in Word 2007

2009-11-07T01:00:00-08:00

I have a form created in Word 2003 and the form has been protected (not the document but only the form). After our company updated to Office 2007 it seems that I can not unprotect the form and edit it anymore. Is this normal?

-Sanna Juhola

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Replacing Some Smart Quotes

2009-10-31T01:04:00-08:00

Smart quotes look great in a document, but may not be right for all instances of quote marks or apostrophes. If you need to replace some smart quotes, but not all of them, then you'll want to understand the technique described in this tip.

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Grouping Records in a Mail Merge

2009-10-31T01:03:00-08:00

Need to group records in some manner when they are used in a mail merge? It can be frustrating when your records are not ordered in the way you want, but this seems to be a limitation of Word. The solution is to look to how you are organizing the data in the source program.

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Changing the Number of Columns

2009-10-31T01:02:00-08:00

If you need to change the number of columns used in a portion of your document, it's easy to do when you use the Columns dialog box. This tip examines the steps you need to follow to get just the number of columns you want.

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Creating a Document Font List

2009-10-31T01:01:00-08:00

If you want a list of all the fonts used in a document, the answer isn't as simple as you may think. This tip uses a macro that steps through the document and compiles the desired font list—but it takes a while to run.

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