I know this should be a simple problem but I just cant seem to get it
right.  I have built a custom toolbar using Word VBA that works fine.
However, my toolbar contains a combobox with a list of options.  I am
trying to write a routine that will access the .text value of the combo

Hi! I need to determine the amount of empty space at the end of a document,
so I
could insert a small document into that space.
I need 2 methods:

I often need to develop, e.g. an access application, which needs to
open Word or Excel. This in it self is straight forward. However, more
often than not, the users of the database have different versions of
office installed, so the reference made to e.g. Outlook 11.0 is not

I'm trying to have a Word/VBA document timestamped when I digitally sign it
with a third-party certificate.  All the documentation I can find says to
update this registry key:  
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VBA\Security\TimeStampURL.  However, the

Not sure where to start on this and would appreciate any help anyone
can offer.   I've searched the archives a fair bit, but haven't seen
anyone doing this.
I want to set the Spacing Before to be the rough equivalent of double

Before I use a style - how do I check that the style exists..? (without
using On Error goto...)
Selection.Style = ActiveDocument.Styles("widPunktlista")

I am trying to create a userForm on a word doc that gets populated with
data from an Odbc data source.
I have recoreded a VBA macro where I retrieve the data from the
datasource, and insert it onto the page (using the

Can a macro be set up to print field code shading (shading the results of
field codes on the printed document)?

In Word 97, I have a table cell with (for example) 6 paragraphs in it.
When I do a count of the number of paragraphs using
Selection.Paragraphs.Count, it returns 6. When I try to access each
paragraph (see below) everything works fine except for the final

I have a few templates with two macros in them. When I mail a document based
on one of these templates to someone else, it arrives without macros. I
suspected the anti-virus of deleting them, but even with anitvirus disabled
(on server, sending client and receiving client), the ...

I have Mircosoft Office Wrod version 11 on my computer running Windows XP and
I have to send documents to someone using Word97.  Do I need to do anything
for this to work or will this work?

I have a table in a Word document.  One of the columns of the table has text
the SHOULD be a hyperlink, although it is appearing as plain text.  Is is
possible to easily cycle through each row of the table and chage the text in
that specific cell to a hyperlink?

In older versions of Word, there were auto macros such as AutoNew, AutoOpen
etc. I can't find any reference to these in Word 2003. Do they still exist or
is there an equivalent. I have searched help for Auto Macro, Automatic Macro,
and other combinations and get nowhere. I just ...

I have found the following article very useful in developing a work-around
for the fact that Word 2003 disables it's spellchecker in a protected form.
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/SpellcheckProtectDoc.htm
However, I can't get it to run unless macro security is set to low.  ...

I am getting an Error in some code that I can't understand.  The error
is as shown in the subject and when I press "Help" in the message box a
screen reports information ofn Automation Error (440)
which I don't understand.