I've recorded a macro on my pc. However, when I try to run
it from the list of macros on another pc, it is not there.
We are all on the same platform so there should not be a
problem at all.

Given a document possibly having a FormField named "DocType", I want to
write a macro which get the formfield value:
01    If ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Exists("DocType") = True Then
02      DocType = ActiveDocument.FormFields("DocType").Result

I've never encountered a user whose C drive was not the first local
drive... until today! Their C drive is a removable drive, the D drive is
a CD, and the E drive is the first local hard drive. Is there a function
or way to determine the first local hard drive on a system?

I am trying to create a registration form that others can
fill in by using checkboxes and dropdown boxes.  I can
get my results of these into text boxes; however I can
not get my code to add up the contents of several text

I have documents that were created with a macro assigned
to a button and stored in the document, rather than the
normal.dot.  These documents are opened from another
application and use macros stored in normal.dot for DDE

I'm working on a word 2000 template that has a couple textbox controls and a
group of radio buttons.   When I scroll down the controls appear to float in
place while the rest of the text moves.   After releasing the scrollbar all
the controls pop back into place.   How do I put a ...

I would like to highlight the text on each tab of a multipage when the
mouse passes over that tab (and of course remove the highlight when
the mouse is no longer over the tab).  Can this be done?  How?
Thanks.

Word 9.
Hi all,
Accessing BuiltInDocumentProperties sets the document's
Saved flag to False, even when you "just" test the

Problem ,
123 documents , each document has 30-60 pages , each page has a ID (
equipment ID ) number on it ( equipment reports ) and only 1 report for each
ID per document.

This code refers to a Shape in the header of the word doc. Depending on what
optionbutton is selected in the form the first one or the second one is
bring to the front. The two shapes lies above each other. But how do I give
a name to a shape (the name of the shape that I refer from ...

I have a Word template that creates a reference number
and collects information for the document from the user.  
I am trying to input the information gathered from each
new document into an Excel Spreadsheet.

When I have a global addin loaded and I try to attach a template to the document I receive the following message:
"Could not change document template."
Window XP SP 1 and Office XP
Mark Baird

I'm terrible new to vba - and I've received a VBA program from a friend that query the user for a filename. He uses the InputBox method, but I would like file browsing functionality. In excel I've found Application.GetOpenFileName but I cant make it function with word vba. The ...

I need to import the data from some 1,500 resumes in to a database so that I can search for key words eg skills, qualifications etc.
I can identify Word tables and thus columns, rows, cells and import these in to appropriate columns in an Access table. I can also identify ...

I'm updating my code from WordBasic to Visual Basic. I
understand that Office XP has problems in this area in
particular with the header and footer thing.
Here is a sample of the code I have to insert a variable