To begin with, I'm *not* a programmer, so please keep this in mind when you
reply. This is a relatively long post on the theory that too much information
and detail up front is better than too little.
I'm using Word 2003 on Windows XP.

If word document template protected, editable regions are alway
highlighted.  I need to disable so that template opens withou
highlighted areas or [ ] brackets around editable text; can only d
'manually' when taskpane selected and highlight editable region tic

This is just a test I was fooling around with. It has to be a property of the
file or something. I can't figure out how to get this sub to run once the
file is open. Any Suggestions????
Code:

We need to generate test strings that contain special characters.  What
application(s) will do this easily?  What is the process.

Can someone help me insert a statement that would realign the table to right
of the page (the below script was provided by Jay Freedman). I believe the
statement is Rows.Alignment = wdAlignRowRight but I’m having trouble
inserting into the loop so that all the tables within the ...

I want to display a certain portion of text onto a user form, but I want the
formatting to carry into the text box I have created for this purpose. How
can I do that? (Right now the best I can get is plain, unformatted text,
with fields showing up as square blocks.)

I help support a large number of templates which have the following formula
in them:
{INCLUDEPICTURE "C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft
Office\\Clipart\\WYP\\COLLAND.TIF" \* MERGEFORMAT \d}

Folks;
What I want to do is to replace ALL occurrences of 'ABC' with 'XYZ'.
When I say ALL I mean ALL.
Occurrences in the mainDocument, Headers, Footers, TextBoxes, TextBoxes

I have a text file with tags such as this.
</P>
<P></P>
<P></P>

What I am trying to do is to get a section of code to run whenever a specific
document (not a template) is opened (using Word 2003 with WinXP SP2). I have
put the following test event handling code in the 'ThisDocument' object of
the word document's project:

I have inserted a .tif file into a Word document as a watermark. I know it's
there because I can see it printed on othrwise blank paper. I have 'set' all
the tools/options I know to view it and nothing works. Is there some VBA
code to do this? Something besides recording a macro?

Imagine an interoffice memo with a routing list.  I need to fill in the
routing list by multi-selecting 1 or more names from a drop-down list.  The
drop-down list needs to be populated on creation from a list of employees
stored either in the template itself or elsewhere on a ...

I am working on a resume, there are bullets in the resume...when I look at it in word 2003 there are the bullets, but next to the bullets are what I think are the tab markers.....I don't want to see them. how on earth do I get rid of them?   On this system (at work) I have word ...

I've got a Word document that was created by a client.  The problem is
that he has used four special characters thru' out 9 seperate documents
incorrectly and they need to be replaced by different special
characters.  I would like to build a Macro that searches for all four

I'm very new to VBA, so my question here may look stupid or has been
answered here a dozen times. Anyway I was not able to find the answers to my
question.
I have made a small Access database in which I have 4 tables.