I need to write some vba code to determine a specific document's idle time
and if its more than 3 minutes it needs to save and close the document
without affecting other documents I might be working on.

I have a large document with several hundred footnotes. I'm looking
for a code to replace the footnote reference with the actual footnote
text. Any ideas on where to start?

Here's a curly one for you all!
I have a series of standard 'office practice' type templates (Fax, Letter,
Memo, etc.) all of which contain code for creating the document in the first
place. This code saves the input in document variables to allow the code to

How can I cycle through section breaks in code?  Thank you for all help.

Word 2000
I want to use something other than the 3 characters provided as tab
leader options.
As an old C programmer, I outlined the algorithm I would use, but

I have this strange problem.
Of a set of 5 identical textboxes (there are each other's copies) 2 show a
smaller font when the form is active.
The font used is Tahoma normal 8pt, but it shows as 6-7pt.

I have a report that pulls a button image from a specified directory, my
command: {includepicture "C\{mergefield inventory#}.jpg \*mergeformat} - this
almost works.  The two problems that I have are 1) I would like to specify
the size of the box that the image is pulled into.  ...

I work at a telephone call site. Currently we use a freeware program that
uses the Net Send command in conjunction with a database that allows us to
send instant pop up messages to individuals and preassigned groups of people.
The problem I am running into is that every time IT ...

I have found many examples of aligning text to the left or right of a
document using code such as the following
wrdSelection.ParagraphFormat.Alignment := wdAlignParagraphLeft;
But I want to align 2 elements of text on the SAME line one to the left

I have created a 2007 addin using VSTO for office 2007 second edition, which
will add a custom pane and will retrieve the data from the sql server.
Now i have to add this data to the word document in a particular location. I
have tried using Bookmarks. But the value is appending ...

I'm a business process SME in my industry, but an intermediate level user of
the Office tools.  I'm building a mock web interface using Word 2003 and the
various forms available. Is there a way to lock the size of a drop down menu
I've inserted, (once I've sized it to fit the ...

IncludeText for Word 2003 needs a pathname to define where the file is.
It works well (with the double \\'s) if the file is on the originating PC.
Does not work if on Networked Disk.
Looking at DocProperties & Explorer, etc. only gives

I am trying to create a set of master/subdocuments.  The source files are on
my network drive.
I create the first document, and then goto Outline and insert a subdocument.
However when i view this is appearing as a link rather than displaying the

We currently have a template (add-in) that runs when Word starts. It creates
some new menus and shortcuts to other templates. A lot of our templates
contain a AutoNew macro which does the same in all the templates. I would
like to insert the AutoNew code in one template file and ...

I am creating UserForms to ease the creation, editing, and checking of
standard documents.
It is likely that the user does not finish creating the document in one
session and therefore, I am passing information from bookmarks in the