Can I install MS Home Essentials 97 on an XP machine ?
I have an old Win 95/98 PC which I do not use.
It came with Microsoft Home essentials 97. I have the CD.
Home Essentials 97 includes:

I have written the following macro for our firm:
   With ActiveDocument.Styles("Normal").Font
       .Name = "Times New Roman"
       .Size = 12

I recorded a macro while I performed a global replace, replacing all Arial
type with another typeface. The replacement worked fine, but when I try to
repeat it using the macro it created, nothing happens. Looking at the macro,
I can see that it did not record the typ names. ...

I have a member variable which represents Word.Application. THe problem is ,
i am trying to open any number of documents using this same application
object and once all the documents are closed manually, my application object
is no more valid.

I have several machines with Office 2000 and several with Office 2003... it
will be some time before they are all upgraded to Office 2003.
I have extensive Word templates that reference the older (Office 2000)
object libraries (using early binding).

Hey all,
 I would like to return a string from a function in vb. Although this is
incredibly simple in c/c++, I can't find the syntax for it in vb.
Can anyone help me out? Thanks!

Hello Masters,
Yesterday I was working to help an OP find a solution for placing a
truncated file name and path in the footer of her document.  The method that
I proposed was to use a DOCVARIABLE field.  During testing I noticed that

I have an application the is written in C++ using MFC. I am trying to perform
the following "Make sure the Bookmarks option located in the View section of
the Options dialog box found in the Tools drop down menu bar of Microsoft
Word is disabled (i.e., no checkmark in the box)." ...

I have this strange problem with MS Word XP, that I hope you can help me
with.
I have a document, that has a protected (for forms) section in the middle.
That section contains a number of (FormField) checkboxes.

Could you please tell me how can i move the mouse cursur(pointer) throgh the
MSWORD 2003 macro VBA .
An early reponse will be much appreciated.
thankz

I am going to start a macro from the command line like
this:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office11
\Winword.exe" "C:\My Documents\MyDocument.doc" /mMacroName

when I run the code below I get the run time error 287
application-defined or object-defined error
whats causing this error i cant figure it out
I just  change to windows xp from 98 and this ran fine on the other machine

I know how to copy over the contents of a paragraph to a new document.
However my text is copied over but looses all of the formatting. How can I
copy and at the same time keep the formatting, including any blank lines
between sentences?  Any ideas?

Kia Ora
I am using Word 97 with Windows 98SE.
1. Is there a method to rotate the text of a document so I can rotate
physically  my monitor and read an A4 page practically full size on the screen?

I wanted to get notified when there word document is saved/closed. I dont
want to use MFC to implement my sink for the Connections points. Could some
one help me in the aspect.?
Thanks alot in advance.