What's New @ The Anchorage

Here you'll find links to new pages, links to changed pages, and notification of deleted pages.

Thursday, 23 February 2012: Published: Content Controls - Do Not Print Placeholder Text. This Microsoft Word Help & Tips page is a collaborative effort with MVP Jay Freedman. It provides three VBA methods to prevent printing the visible placeholder text in uncompleted content controls.
Sunday, 19 February 2012: Consummatum est!! After nearly six grueling weeks the website is now completely updated and weaned of any reliance on FrontPage Server Extensions. During the conversion process, I eliminated the following pages: Add File Name and Path to Document Title Bar, Word Limits and Delete Text to End of Line. I have added my own tips page providing instructions for installing and using VBA procedures or add-ins contained on this site Install/Employ VBA Procedures (Macros) and Calendar Maker Add-In which provides a simple template add-in for creating perpetual calendars.
Monday, 06 February 2012: Still plowing through the conversion of the tips pages. I suppose I am about 50% complete and I'm trying to knock out a couple each day. Today I deleted, "Delete Text to End of Line" after discovering that the basic functionality is already built-in to the smart cut and paste options.
Thursday, 19 January 2012: For the last two weeks I've been taking a crash course in web design. Notified on New Year's Eve that my hosting service would be eliminating Front Page Server Extensions support later in the spring, I decided it was time to wean the site of that requirement and give it a face lift. Today I published the basic foundation pages of the new site along with a few of the redesigned tips pages. Updating all of the Microsoft Word Help & Tips pages may take several months, so most are still in the old format. I will be updating them as time permits. I will not list each reformatted page here unless there is a significant change in content.
Monday, 7 November 2011: Almost two months ago I came across the question in a Word support forum, "How do I select all the text in a Word sentence?" The problem is that Word on its own has a tough time determining what a sentence really is. After several months and many hours of testing and hard-work, I am pleased to publish: Deduced Sentences. Deduced Sentences is a Word template add-in with a new "Sentences" class co-developed with Jason Simpson. Using the add-in you can perform function involving sentences with a much higher probability of getting the sentence definition right!
Tuesday, 20 September 2011: Over the years, and due to "quick" changes and modifications, my VBA Find and Replace Add-In had grown a bit unwieldy. I have overhauled the underlying code and given the add-in a facelift in hope of making it easier to use. It is now published as version 2.0.
Saturday, 17 September 2011: Published Version 2.2: Mayor & Maxey "CC/V/B and DP Tools" Add-In to correct an apparent bug in the list content controls function when using Word 2007.
Thursday, 08 September 2011: Published version 2.0 of: Invoice (Interactive w\Auto-Table Calculate. Version 2.0 corrects numerous formatting errors, provides the ability to add "stamps" to completed invoices and incorporates several suggestions for improvements offered by users.
Tuesday, 30 August 2011: Published: Invoice (Interactive w\Auto-Table Calculate). This is another "child" of previous projects. Here, I have incorporated custom Table Cell Events into an interactive Word invoice template co-created early last year with Word MVP and long-time friend Graham Mayor. The original template is currently available on Graham's website: Interactive Invoice Template
Saturday, 27 August 2011: Published: Table Cell Events. A brain child of the Content Control OnChange event introduced last month, this add-in provides a VBA method to monitor and detect OnEnter, OnExit and OnChange events in Word table cells.
Wednesday, 28 July 2011: In collaboration with Jeff Vandervoort, a regular contributor in the Office Word for Developer forum, I have created and published a VBA method to monitor and evaluate custom content control events. The custom events provide a reliable means to monitor content control OnEnter and OnExit events, and monitor the content control range for any change, which will trigger a custom "OnChange" event: Content Control Custom Events
Saturday, 25 June 2011: Published an update to: Build & Deploy Custom Building Block Gallery following feedback suggesting that the add-in include features for selecting the template to process and add Building Block descriptive text.
Sunday, 05 June 2011: Published: Insert Content with Content Controls. This tips page compliments Graham Mayor's Insert content from a form field and provides several examples for placing content in your document using a content control.
Friday, 25 February 2011: After much wailing and gnashing of teeth, I have resolved the issue of the LoadPictureGDI function failing to load *.png format graphic image files in the Word 2010 ribbon: Ribbon Images & Labels: Part III.
Saturday, 12 February 2011: Updated and renamed: Extract Form Field/Content Control Data. Added code to extract data from document content controls. Added information for working with ".accdb" format Access database files.
Wednesday, 09 February 2011: Published: Math Operations using Content Controls. Tips and examples for using content controls as variables and to display results of mathematical operations.; Update Content Controls.
Tuesday, 08 February 2011: Published: Content Controls. A new tips page that provides an introduction to content controls and links to all of my tips focused on content controls.
Friday, 04 February 2011: Published: Linked Content Control Drop-Down List. A new tips page provided to illustrate how to create a pair of linked content control drop-down lists. The user selection in the primary control determines the list items in the dependent (secondary) control.
Thursday, 03 February 2011: Publish Version 1.7 to: Mayor & Maxey "CC/V/B and DP Tools" Add-In; This version of the add-in introduces changes in the code used to evaluate the Word application version following feedback from a person that uses the French language version of Office 2007.
Tuesday, 01 February 2011: Publish Version 1.6 to: Mayor & Maxey "CC/V/B and DP Tools" Add-In
This corrects a minor bug introduced with Version 1.3.
Sunday, 30 January 2011: Publish Version 1.5 to: Mayor & Maxey "CC/V/B and DP Tools" Add-In; This version corrects a minor bug introduced with Version 1.4 and enhances the process for reviewing individual content control XML node values.
Friday, 28 January 2011: Publish Version 1.4 to: Mayor & Maxey "CC/V/B and DP Tools" Add-In; This version significantly improves the process for reviewing and deleting the content control XML mapping nodes. It also adds the ability to map a qualified content control that you have selected in the document. Several additional display enhancements were also performed. Be sure to download and start using the latest version!!
Thursday, 27 January 2011: Published bug resolution in: Mayor & Maxey "CC/V/B and DP Tools" Add-In
Monday, 24 January 2011: Developed in collaboration with long-time friend and Word MVP Graham Mayor we provided a convenient add-in to unleash the usefulness and availability of mapped content controls and variables (the "Hidden Gems") of Word documents: Mayor & Maxey "CC/V/B and DP Tools" Add-In
Thursday, 30 December 2010: Developed in collaboration with long-time friend and Word MVP Graham Mayor, we provided a convenient add-in for managing document variables.
Tuesday, 30 March 2010: Based on a suggestion from long-time friend and Word MVP Graham Mayor, I have added a utility to my Classic Form Controls add-in that simplifies adding, deleting, or editing dropdown list entries.
Sunday, 28 February 2010: Added a simple procedure for converting common fractions to my Formatted Fractions Microsoft Word Help & Tips page. I have used this page to introduce a new "html content" feature in my tips pages for displaying VBA code.
Friday, 26 February 2010: Added examples and code to the Populate Userform ListBox page that illustrates hiding multiply column data and selectively using column data.
Monday, 22 February 2010: After putting if off for over a year, I decided to compile some of my notes on VBA and post them as a Tips page: VBA Basics
Monday, 15 February 2010: Added Microsoft Word Help & Tips page Content Control Grouping and Navigation. Having stumbled on a technique for navigating (tabbing) from one rich text content control to another, I thought I would write it up and publish it here.
Friday, 05 February 2010: Added a link on my Word Help & Tips page (Go to link) to an automated interactive Word Invoice template posted by friend and Word MVP Graham Mayor.
Wednesday, 03 February 2010: Pinged by friend and Word MVP Graham Mayor for the oversight, I have added a zip file containing a complete Word template add-in for displaying Classic Form Controls on the Word 2007 ribbon to my Classics Form Controls tips page.
Thursday, 7 January 2010: Published a revision to: VBA Find and Replace. The revision adds a recursive sub-routine that processes grouped shapes, shapes in a canvass, and grouped shapes in a canvass located in a header and footer. Thanks to Mark Rozenberg of Moscow, Russia for notifying me of this shortcoming and suggesting the recursive sub-routine.
Friday, 6 November 2009: Added new Microsoft Word Help & Tips page Content Control Validation using an attached Schema
This tips page demonstrates the ability and steps necessary to validate data entered into a mapped content control against an attached schema.
Thursday, 5 November 2009: Updated and renamed my Microsoft Word Help & Tips page "Sort List and Remove Duplicates" to:
Sorting Lists (Macro methods) after adding a few additional macros. You can use these macros to:
1) Sort and remove duplicates, 2) Exclude the articles "A" and "The" from sort criteria, and 3) Relocate articles "A" and "The" in list members.
Wednesday, 4 November 2009: Added some notes and additional code to Microsoft Word Help & Tips page Interactive Userforms to check that referenced bookmarks exist before attempting to read from or write to their respective ranges. Updated the downloadable document that contains example code.; Added a new Microsoft Word Help & Tips page Line Numbering which shows you how to employ the section direction option and a right-to-left script language, such as Hebrew or Arabic, to display line numbering in the right margin.
Saturday, 24 October 2009: Added a Microsoft Word Help & Tips page Interactive Userforms to supplement my Create and Employ a Userform page. This page provides examples and code for making data in a document interactive with corresponding data controls in a Userform.
Friday, 23 October 2009: Made minor corrections to my Modify CC Placeholder Text tips page and added a template add-in that you can download and use to speed up the process of reviewing and setting Content Control properties.; Added a few new vintage Navy recruiting posters to the Word Tips page.
Thursday, 22 October 2009: Added this What's New page to help regular visitors to this site access changes and new material.
Wednesday, 21 October 2009: In collaboration with MVP Cindy Meister, I have published and explained a process for extracting individual numbers from a user input of continuous, discontinuous, and group continuous numbers: Extract Numbers from User Input String

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