Basic problem, but I can't get the hang of it.
In the code below, I want to replace the web address with a variable
called sAddress to open a web page.
Shell ("C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE

I'm trying to export a Word document to XML manually (because I need
something more like DocBook XML -but not exactly DocBook).  I think I
have a routine that crawls through the document tree pretty decently
paragraphs, lists, tables ->range.text but I need to identify text

I am looking for a way to select and add images to a protected word
document. I understand the process to unprotect and protect via vba, but I
need to select the image, force it to resize to a specifc size and then
place it in the document at a booknark and then protect the ...

In Word 2000 VBA control toolboxes appear in the upper left and lower
right corners, unbidden, when documents are opened.  The lower right
toolbox shows only a triangle.
What causes this and how can I get rid of it?

How can I automatically color hightlight key words in a Word document, based
upon a supplied keyword list or table?  As a macro function or some other
pre-process?  What I am looking for needs to run at document open time, or
right after, using the specified document as "input" ...

When you create a document from the custom template I have created you are
sometimes prompted to save changes to the template on closing the document.
Is there someway to prevent this dialog?  As the document was created from
the template there should be no template specific ...

Does anyone know what event gets fired every time something happens in word?
much appreciated

I have created some User Forms that populate a variety of templates e.g
letters, memo's etc.  However, whenever someone opens an old document
that has been produced with a User Form, and has then been saved, the
User Form appears again!  Is there a way of stopping that happening?

I have some code that iterates through the paragraphs in the paragraph
collection of the ActiveDocument and sets the LeftIndent for the paragraph
based on the paragraph above it (actually the TextPosition property of a List
item above it).

Looking for a simple closing statement not a hud 1

I need to be able to insert a field code into an existing custom property
field via code.
Basically I have an embedded field on a document.  What I want to do is then
set the contents of this to be another field which is a page level

I have a Word 2003 document with a number of tables that have certain cells
with a pale blue background. I wish to change the background colour of these
cells to Yellow. I thought I could do it with find and replace, but have had
no success.

Is MS Word able to generate unique identifiers (uid) like the AutoNumber in
Access?

I need to split a Word 2003 doc in multiple docs with a predefined
number of pages (eg, 10 pages). Therefore, all the docs created will
have 10 pages (except  the last maybe).
One way is move through the pages of the original doc (starting from

I need to be able to open a selected directory with *.doc's and
manipulate them one at a time, then save & close.  I have been able to
do this in Excel, by putting the filenames into a worksheet and then
referencing the range, but I dont know how to get the filenames from