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MS Office Forum / Word / Programming / October 2007save/restore current outline view (collapsed/expanded branches)
Hello, is there a way (macro?) to save/restore the current outline view of a word document. thanks in advance, Henk Koning Henk Koning was telling us: Henk Koning nous racontait que : > Hello, > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Henk Koning Not sure what you want to do. Can you elaborate a bit more?  SignatureSalut! _______________________________________ Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP jmarcilREMOVE@CAPSsympatico.caTHISTOO Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org Hello Jean-Guy, when working in outline mode I expand branches and collapse branches as an ongoing process to have at anytime exactly the information at sight which I need. when closing the word document, and continuing for instance the next day, this information is lost. This means that after re-opening the document I need to expand/collapse the branche again to arrive at the view when I left of the day before. I find this anoying. I would like the document to reopen in the state (view) as it was when I closed it. Does this explain to you what I mean? thanks for your attention! Henk > Henk Koning was telling us: > Henk Koning nous racontait que : [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Not sure what you want to do. > Can you elaborate a bit more? Henk Koning was telling us: Henk Koning nous racontait que : > Hello Jean-Guy, > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Does this explain to you what I mean? Yes, very clearly, unfortunately, I do not know how it can be done, if it can be done at all. From VBA you can turn on or off the outline view or expand/shrink a a particular level... that's about it. I do not think that there are properties for recording the state of the view. May be someone will come along with a clever idea.. Sorry, I can't help you with this particular problem. SignatureSalut! _______________________________________ Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP jmarcilREMOVE@CAPSsympatico.caTHISTOO Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org Jean-Guy and Henk Koning, I think the best you can do is record and store the current state (on or off) of the toolbar buttons used in Outline view. I'm not that familiar with toolbar addressing to know how to do that. But it does seem like a worthwhile macro to have for those people who edit and re-edit the same document in Outline View. You must decide when the record-current-Outline-toolbar-button-state macro is ran. You could have it automatically run whenever a document is closed from Outline View or manually by starting the macro through a menu, toolbar button, or shortcut key combination just before closing a document. Where do you store the button state information? In current document properties/variables? In Windows OS Registry? Etc. How/when do you restore to toolbar to stored-past state? Whenever a document is viewed in Outline view? Whenever a document is opened that has a document variable/property for outline-view-toolbar-state? Manually through another menu, toolbar button, or shortcut key combination? Etc. You can through VBA use pseudocode like this to change the toolbar buttons back to stored values: Sub RestoreToolbarSettings() ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Type = wdOutlineView ActiveWindow.View.ShowAllHeadings If documentvariable or windowsregistry has heading1 set then ActiveWindow.View.ShowHeading 1 End If End Sub > Henk Koning was telling us: > Henk Koning nous racontait que : [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > Sorry, I can't help you with this particular problem. SignatureRuss drsmN0SPAMikleAThotmailD0Tcom.INVALID Another useful thing to store with the toolbar settings would be the current selection or insertion point before closing; and restore or bring that back into view when the document is re-edited. > Jean-Guy and Henk Koning, > I think the best you can do is record and store the current state (on or [quoted text clipped - 56 lines] >> >> Sorry, I can't help you with this particular problem. SignatureRuss drsmN0SPAMikleAThotmailD0Tcom.INVALID I afraid I didn't notice until now that the main problem is the expand and collapse settings and not just the outline level settings. The expand and collapse settings are more difficult to detect. You'd have to know what outline ranges are currently visible on screen. I don't know of a way to detect that through VBA code. > Another useful thing to store with the toolbar settings would be the current > selection or insertion point before closing; and restore or bring that back [quoted text clipped - 60 lines] >>> >>> Sorry, I can't help you with this particular problem. SignatureRuss drsmN0SPAMikleAThotmailD0Tcom.INVALID Henk Koning, I just noticed that if you save a document while it is in Outline View, close it, and reopen the document; then the document **does** reappear just as you saved it (with things collapsed just like before saving). So is that all you needed? Just save and close while still in Outline View. > I afraid I didn't notice until now that the main problem is the expand and > collapse settings and not just the outline level settings. The expand and [quoted text clipped - 66 lines] >>>> >>>> Sorry, I can't help you with this particular problem. SignatureRuss drsmN0SPAMikleAThotmailD0Tcom.INVALID Henk Koning, After more testing, I discovered bug/feature on my Mac 2004 that it only records the current expand collapse settings when you save it originally or resave it under a new filename. It might be a feature if you consider being able to open different versions of the same document that look different when viewed in Outline View. Therefore, you may have to save the document while in Outline view, under a new name, when you want to return to the last expand and collapse view. > Henk Koning, > I just noticed that if you save a document while it is in Outline View, [quoted text clipped - 73 lines] >>>>> >>>>> Sorry, I can't help you with this particular problem. SignatureRuss drsmN0SPAMikleAThotmailD0Tcom.INVALID |
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