I am using Word 2003 and have created a form for users to complete.  I would
like to have a field that automatically inserts today's date when a user
changes their selection in a drop-down field.
For example, if a user selects a particular status from the status

I hope this message reaches Doug Robbins, Word MVP, but any help from anyone
else is welcome.
Some time ago I queried this NG about conditional headers/footers and the
need to have Word display "For Official Use Only" in the footer when there

I've had a macro to password protect documents for a while and it works
fine - except for one issue I just found.  When the macro is run on a
document that was once protected for certain sections, only those
sections are protected.  The only way I can protect all the sections is

I typed in a row of dashes to separate 2 items in a column.  The auto-format
converted it to a solid line that I cannot find a way to edit or delete.  I
have turned off the auto-format for dashes, but still can't find a way to
eliminate the unwanted line.  The line pushes forward ...

I wrote several macros in Word 95 and 97 which were searching for files with
specific words in the file text, but I cannot convert them into Word 2003 or
write new macro in Word 2003 of this type. I cannot insert words for  search
into the "text or property" property in the ...

I need to get reliable character counts from documents submitted in word
format.
*Reading them from structured storage isn't reliable, as by default fast
saves are enabled and the count isn't up to date as far as I can tell.

I am working on a template for monthly reports; the top part of the
form is a table full of the usual parameters (Project Number, Leader,
Sponsor, Month, Hours Worked, etc).  Management wants to be able to
grab all the values and dump the data into an Excel file.

If a document has a number of pages and one of those pages has a
number of objects (in this case text boxes) how can I select these and
then delete them, please?
There is an "Ah, yes but..." factor here: these pages have a very deep

I don't get paid enough for this...
I know how to create a user form.
And I know how to use the ActiveDocument properties to automatically take
data from the user form and put it into a document in form fields.

I need an MS Word 2002 VBA Macro which automatically inserts a hard
carriage return at the end of every line with the following exceptions:
1. Lines which already end in a hard carriage return.
2. Lines which are the last line of a paragraph.

To the group:
I want to loop through a document comparing sequential sentences.  The code
is below.
To test this I have copied and pasted sentences so sentences one and two are

In a looped Find/Replace routine, I want to use a variable that I can
increment with each loop.  I want to find "i" and replace with "1", "ii"
with "2", etc.  Something like:
Dim x

I am creating a class to connect to Microsoft Word using VC++ 6.0 ClassWizard
and the object library MSWORD.OLB.
Most of the function calls in this class use the Varient type to pass
parameters, but I cannot find the actual values for the enumeration types so

I have 2 notepad documents consisting of 16 character lines. One is
380,000 lines, the other is 20,000 lines. Is there a way to merge the
two so that the 1st line of the smaller ends up as the 20th line of the
larger, second line of the smaller ends up as the 40th line of the

I am looking for the VBA code to print a sample of all the fonts in Word.  I
am using Word 2003.
Thanks.