Creating & Editing Macros In M/S Word
[In which I moan about the abysmal macro-recorder in M/S Office, and show how to create and edit a macro.] I finished my previous article with a comment that I've long wanted to have a bit of a whinge...
View ArticleAdding Paragraph Tags Using M/S Word’s Find-Replace Function
Ever since I posted an article on Microsoft Word macros, I've had a steady-ish stream of searchers landing on the page, looking for how to enclose paragraphs in <p> … </p> tags using...
View ArticleHighlighting Text Between Two Strings In M/S Word
A couple of years back, when I first discovered macros, I kinda fell a bit in love with them. In particular I was entranced by the Visual Basic Editor packaged with Microsoft Office for the purpose of...
View ArticleOops!
I'll begin with a heads-up for John Zande. The first part of this might interest you, John, as I believe it meets a criterion you were asking about a while back. A kind soul of my acquaintance took it...
View ArticleA Macro To Tell If A String Is All Letters
A goodly while back someone, somewhere, asked me if there was a workaround for this and I said I'd get back to 'em. Problem is I can't remember where the question was asked, so I'm just going to post...
View ArticleChange Any Number To Text In Microsoft Word
When I were but a wee nipper, the words "billion" and "trillion" were hardly ever heard, outside of hyperbole, unless one had an interest in astronomy and cosmology. (And even then, we had to be...
View ArticleUsing A Counter In A VBA Macro
T'other day, I knocked together a macro, for a friend, to number the paragraphs in a Microsoft Word document ("manual" rather than hard-coded numbering, that is): Sub NumberingParagraphs() Dim...
View ArticleAn “UndoRecord” Workaround For Pre-2010 Versions Of Microsoft Word VBA
It's a thing which annoyed me a little until I found out that users of later (2010 and on) versions of M/S Word than mine could do it. Then, while it still would never have featured anywhere near my...
View ArticleA Strange Quirk When Changing Fonts In M/S Word VBA
Oh, what an exciting life I lead. My first post, in the early AM of the first day of the year, and what is the topic? Coding. Woohoo! Happy New Year! Anyways… Following a Computer Cock-Up Of...
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