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I was passed a 4 page document that contains about 200 form fields and was
asked to create on-exit routines to copy and calculate new data (for
instance, once a field on page 1 is tabbed out of, the result goes on another
page and may be a calculated result). In order to run the ...

The VBScript below times how long it takes to run Word, and open a document.
The first time it runs, following power-on or system restart, it takes an
order of magnitude longer to open the document than all subsequent runs.  I
have tried it on three machines.  One took 15 seconds ...

Hi again everyone
Win 2K
Word 2K
I have the following not so elegant code to italicize text, between hyphens,

I've read something about collapsing a range, e.g. the selection. I tried it
but nothing visible happened. As far as I've understood I should not see the
whole range anymore, just the beginning and the end.
Thanks

Has anyone else come up against this one?  
Working with a data source from Access which is all uppercase & need to get
Names/Salutation looking more human. Using  \*Caps deals with 99% perfectly.
But McWilliams becomes Mcwilliams and O'Neill O'neill which looks rather

I'm trying to get the number of the paragraph my selection is in.
Example
1 heading on level 1
   selected text: macro should return 1

I have a small VBA code that merge empty cell on each rows but keeping the columns.
For example the table:
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Is it possible to pass a parameter to a macro in  a right-click pop-up
menu button click?
commandbarbutton.onAction..
For instance..

I am editing an html document that I downloaded. Some words have a thin red
line under them. I can not get rid of it. It is NOT underlined text. What do
I do????

I'm getting an "Application or Object defined error" when I run the
following and it tries to delete an AllowEditRange
Private Sub defineEditableRanges()
   ' defines the areas that can be edited on the protected worksheet.

I have made a document in which i had inserted some documents using section
break.
All the documents are based on some template and will have different field
codes associated with them. I had unchecked the option" Update field code" in

I am used to an Excel environment (little VBA) but not MS Word.
I want to programmatically select all those words in a word document which
have the same font/format/color as below and then change them to a different
font/format/color. Is it possible?

I'm very new to VBA and need some help. I'm using Word 2003 running on
Windows 2000 and XP.
Currently, I have  the following directory structure setup; 3-4 templates
reside in the following folders marked with an asterisk (*). Each template

I am in MS Word 2000.  I have selected a region of text.  I want to save that
selected region of text out as a separate file.  Is there a single command to
do this, some sort of "saveSelectionAsFile" command?
Barring that, is there a quick and easy way to accomplish the same ...