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MS Office Forum / Word / Long Documents / December 2004Word expert needed
I am currently looking for a Word expert. This would be to produce style sheets as templates for a number of documents in a large UK teaching hospital. These would be letters, fax headers, memos etc. The expert would have to have high level knowledge of Word and expertise in graphics/typography to make the finished documents look professional. This is a one off project, but may result in occasional ad hoc projects in the future. If anyone supporting this board is or knows of someone with this expertsie, could they contact me at stirwin@surgeon dot dnet dot co dot uk (replacing the dots of course) Terry Irwin A number of the Word MVPs do this kind of work. See http://word.mvps.org/AboutMVPs/index.htm  SignatureSuzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > I am currently looking for a Word expert. This would be to > produce style sheets as templates for a number of [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Terry Irwin Please can someone help me. I just need to PRE-FORMAT a plain text report (from a DOS legacy output) so that when I open in Word, it has the headings etc. formatted. This is like HTML markup. However, I can't seem to find any way to do this. Sorry if this sounds so dumb. Thanks Prakash Hi Prakash > I just need to PRE-FORMAT a plain text report (from a DOS legacy output) > so that when I open in Word, it has the headings etc. formatted. > This is like HTML markup. > However, I can't seem to find any way to do this. > Sorry if this sounds so dumb. Not "dumb", but not clear enough: Is this a one-time task, or do you need to edit various files like this? If you work with Word, then the usual way is to open up the text in Word itself, see which internal converter (File | Open: Filetype) works best, and then maybe use Search/Replace to get what you desire. Another alternative would be to preprocess your text files in a text editor of your choice and end up with an HTML file (which Word can open since Word 97) or XML file (Word 2003 prof.). What way you chose depends on your knowledge of the structure of the files at hand, and of the amount of files we're dealing with here ... 2cents .bob Signature/"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word I want to output a report, like a price list. Begins with a header: cented, 20 point, bold, underlined XYZ COMPANY - PRICE LIST JAN 04 Category: S1 - Dishes Code Description Box Qty Price ABC001 12" white ceramic 12 45.90 etc. So I need to markup the text as it is produced. HTML markup is not ideal for me. Is it not possible to markup with Word/Wordpad formatting command? I don't want the end user to have to do any formatting. Can i search/replace characters with formatting commands? e.g. ##XYZ COMPANY -... where ## repalced by whatever I need to make it bold. I am sorry if I seem confused but all I want is a plain text to produce the above (on demand, repeatedly) the above formatting. Any help would be most welcome. Prakash >>> Robert M. Franz<robert.franz@mvps.org> 07/12/04 12:20:36 >>> Hi Prakash Prakash Mistry wrote: > I just need to PRE-FORMAT a plain text report (from a DOS legacy output) > so that when I open in Word, it has the headings etc. formatted. > This is like HTML markup. > However, I can't seem to find any way to do this. > Sorry if this sounds so dumb. Not "dumb", but not clear enough: Is this a one-time task, or do you need to edit various files like this? If you work with Word, then the usual way is to open up the text in Word itself, see which internal converter (File | Open: Filetype) works best, and then maybe use Search/Replace to get what you desire. Another alternative would be to preprocess your text files in a text editor of your choice and end up with an HTML file (which Word can open since Word 97) or XML file (Word 2003 prof.). What way you chose depends on your knowledge of the structure of the files at hand, and of the amount of files we're dealing with here ... 2cents .bob Signature/"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word Hi Prakash > I want to output a report, like a price list. > Begins with a header: cented, 20 point, bold, underlined [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > HTML markup is not ideal for me. > Is it not possible to markup with Word/Wordpad formatting command? Hmm, of course this is possible, I guess I'm beginning to understand. > I don't want the end user to have to do any formatting. > Can i search/replace characters with formatting commands? > e.g. ##XYZ COMPANY -... where ## repalced by whatever I need to make it bold. OK, this works, yes. A Word file is quite different than HTML (it's not a text file at all), but you can still do what you want. Edit | Replace is the place to turn to at first, using Word's own version of Regular Expressions. Aside to Word's Help menue, the following two articles will shed some light for you: Add Power to Word Searches with Regular Expressions (by Colin Wilcox, Graham Mayor, and Klaus Linke) http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/2002/articles/pwWordwildcards.aspx Finding and replacing characters using wildcards (by Graham Mayor and Klaus Linke) http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/UsingWildcards.htm > I am sorry if I seem confused but all I want is a plain text to produce the above > (on demand, repeatedly) the above formatting. No need to be sorry, supposedly none of us is writing in his mother tongue here. :-) For repeating these steps, you'll need VBA. Depending on how big the text files are (and/or how frequently the macro should run), you can get away with recording your replace runs. Scratching out unneccessary entries in the recorded code might pay off a bit, but for the finer stuff, you need to rewrite a bit more I guess. Greetinx .bob Signature/"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word Hi ! Here I am. I am looking for challenges. Let me see your urgent need. |
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