After several years away from Mac working with Office 2000 and 2002 on PCs I
am about to work also with a Mac and Office 2008 Home and Student Edition. I
say 'work' which, being retired, is all voluntary so I cannot spend more on
a grander version.

Does anyone know where Application.UserName retrieves its data?
When I entered the firm my Windows UserID was ABC
Later they changed it to XYZ
Everywhere in Windows I can see my user-ID is XYZ (eg in documents and

I am searching for a method to open .BMP, .JPG, .GIF, .TIF, .PDF files
from Powerbuilder based on the extensions. Now I am able to open
only .DOC and .DOCX files.
I am new to Ole Controls. Pls help me in doing this. If not all

I need to create a Word form that will restrict text fields to allow letters
only; and numeric fields to allow numbers only.  I'm using Word 2003.  Thanks.

We are networked through a VPN tunnel to a server located in a different
city.  Early in the day, Word works great.  As the day goes on and especially
at the end of the day, our system slows way down, and Word becomes almost
non-responsive.  It only happens when we are using Word ...

I am trying to write a macro to convert some of my word table to excel. The
code I am using is below. Could anyone suggest how to convert to excel?
Also, the code is picking up from a single table. I want it to pick up from
consequent tables as well. How do I do that?

I have a macro that will automatically change the settings in the envelope
wizard for our current setup of printers. the printer with envelops is
different than the default printer used in the lab. Anyway, How can i set it
up so when a users logs into the computer and uses word, it ...

is it possible to retrieve the reference number of the item that is
currently selected in the InsertCrossReference dialog? If I use the macro
recorder, the created macro contains the reference number to the item that
was selected at the time of the macro creation (e.g. ...

I am trying to make some macros available to all documents created or opened
in Word. I have followed the article below, but when I open a new document
the macros are not present. In order to get the macros to run I have to
import them into the normal.dot template.

I am trying to move the contents of a table in one document into the
cells of a larger table in a second document.  The line
   doc2.Range(Start:=tbl3.Cell(13, 1), End:=tbl3.Cell(18, 4)) =
tbl2.Range

I have a large docx file that has hyperlinks in it. They link to a doc file.
How can I change all the existing links to have them connect to a html file?
Richard

When I run the VBA code containing the command:
  ActiveDocument.Convert
I receive an error message that states "Command is not available".
To troubleshoot the document, I step through the process. My routine

n Word 2007, I can zoom the document map by pressing SHIFT-F6 and then using
the zoom bar at the bottom of the Word window.
However, the macro recorder will not record this action.
How can the action be done programmatically, i.e. in VBA ?

I want to create some macros that will be available to every document in
Word whether it is a new document or an existing one. I have followed the
article below, but my macros are only available by opening the template. The
only way to make the macros available is to import them ...

In our organisation we load a global template.   This has a lot of code and
User Forms in it.
We also have 1000's of documents on our intranet based on a template which
users download to review and update which uses code in the document template.