I'm writing something about phonetics and pronunciation. I've been cutting
and pasting all the symbols. It's too much trouble to make them bold as I go
through. I'd like to find all the things like this '/s/' in a document and
make them bold.

I've been reading the help and I'm still confused.
I'm trying to get a grip on the Word Document Hierarchy, but to no
avail.
Section, Range, HeaderFooter ???????

We are in the process of creating a directory book at work with about 5000
resources in it. Now the problem is: When it originally was merged after hand
tweaking (removing some items, spaces, etc.) it seems it was merged with
errors such as page numbers don't match in the ...

In a document, various text boxes with formatted text, even with tables
in them, exist.
I would like to cut all textbox content in all text boxes and copy it to
a second document for editing, and once edited, move the content back to

Well, I have an unusual repagination problem. I understand that
background repagination (in Normal View) may be turned off  along with
the screen updations.
Sub MakeAllFast()

Great Forums for everthing Office but sometimes there is a lot of reading
required when you want to do something that seems simple and to no avail!
Here is the issue:
Our firm uses templates to create Functional Analsys Documents. The first

Hi all--
I think I've reached the point where I need to program in Word.  I
teach a class, and my syllabus lists each class number, the day and
date, and the assignment.  I get tired of manually replacing the dates

We have a fairly sophisticated MS Word template.
The last version that we sent to our users gave us a real surprise.
Many of our users had Word crash when they opened a document that was based
off the Template.  Word would give the error that reads something like

I have a userform which populates an address formfield on a letter, the
trouble with it is when the second and subsequent lines are entered then a
square precedes the text.  Is there anyway that these squares can be removed?
To have the userform populates just a bookmark would ...

Here's a challenge for you.  I need to get some complex text into a legacy
database running in a VT100 terminal emulator (please don't laugh).  So I am
generating the text in Word 97 using dropdown form fields, with VBA running
in the background to conditionally alter other ...

clk'ng on it = nothing ?
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I have an excel sheet in which there are several named ranges.  I would like
to write a macro to copy the information, create a new word doc and then
paste into the new word doc.  Do I write it from excel or from word.  How do
I control the paste function?

I'm creating a VBA script in Access that will take data selected by a
basic query, place it in an Excel worksheet, and format the data. I
cannot figure out how to take the headers from the fields I select in
the query and place them at the top of the Excel sheet. I do not want

I use Range object to insert text in paragraphs. when text is inserted, the
cursor still stays at the beginning (at the book mark).
           Set rBMRange = .Bookmarks("P1_WhatYouMightGetBack").Range
           rBMRange.Text = Trim(rsMYS!para_text)

I have a huge Word document with mixed color-coded sections (usually
paragraphs). I'd like to have a macro to re-order the document based on
the colors (for example: all the red paragraphs, followed by the greens
etc.).