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Macros for Word Users
This document contains many of the macros we've developed over the years to make life with Word a little easier. They're written in WordBasic, but we still use many of them in Word 97 and 2000. (We let Word translate them to VBA, but you might prefer to examine the logic and rewrite them in VBA yourself--no doubt there are other or even better ways to do what they do.)
Some of these macros are useful only to WinHelp developers--hey, that's what we were doing at the time--others address more general needs.
The download is a zipped text file containing the following macros:
- CompareStyleCount
- Compares the number of custom styles in the active document to the number of custom styles in the associated template
- StyleList
- Lists PARAGRAPH styles used in the active document
- RemoveUnusedStyles
- Removes unused styles from the active document
- MergeFromTemplate
- Merges paragraph styles from the active document's template
- FontList
- Lists fonts used in the active document
- MergeIndex
- (WinHelp development with RoboHelp)
Merge RH's "letter" paragraphs and inserted topic-jump paragraphs - GoToTopicNumber
- (WinHelp development)
Jumps to the specified topic number, by page break - PrintOutline
- Prints an outline (heading 1 through heading 5) of the current file
- PrintAllNoBreaks
- (WinHelp development)
Prints the current file without manual (hard-coded) page breaks - HiddenText
- Toggles display of hidden text
- PicturePlaceholders
- Toggles display of pictures and picture placeholders
- FieldCodes
- Toggles display of field codes
- TextBoundaries
- Toggles display of text boundaries in page layout view
- KeepTogether
- Prevents a soft page break within the selected paragraph
- KeepWithNext
- Prevents a soft page break after the selected paragraph
- PageBreakBefore
- Toggles forcing the selected paragraph to the top of the next page
- ParagraphJumps
- (WinHelp development)
Makes each paragraph's text into a WinHelp jump - HyphensToUnderscores
- (WinHelp development)
In selection, converts HIDDEN hyphens to underscores - SpacesToUnderscores
- (WinHelp development)
In selection, converts HIDDEN spaces to underscores - InsertEmptyFootnoteRefs
- (WinHelp development)
Inserts footnote references for topic ID (#), topic title ($), keywords (K), and either window class (>) or browse sequence (+) - MakeFootnoteMarkerAt
- (WinHelp development)
Changes single selected footnote marker to an "@" symbol, effectively "commenting it out" - CharacterColor
- Changes the color of the selected text
- SmallCapsForHelp
- (WinHelp development)
In selection, converts lowercase letters to 7-point "small fonts" - ConfirmConversions
- Makes it easier to open RTF files as text
- Factorial
- Demonstrates that Word Basic macros are recursive
Notes:
- These macros are made available "as is" with no guarantee of anything except our good intentions. Be sure to save your work before using any unfamiliar tool!
- Being fully occupied with other duties, we can't offer any kind of support in the use of these macros beyond the descriptions on this page and the comments in the file you download.
- Check your headers and footers after using the RemoveUnusedStyles macro or any other that affects the style list. Since the automatic conversion to VBA, we've seen headers and footers revert to Normal style seemingly at will. At worst, you may have to go through and reapply the Header or Footer style as a final pass. (We've seen this only in Word 2000, and not consistently.)
- These macros deal only with paragraph styles, not character styles. (WordBasic just wouldn't cooperate with us on that point; VBA may be better about it.)
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