This eclectic
collection of Microsoft Word Help and Tips Pages is by no means intended to be a primer for beginning
Microsoft Word users. It is a collection of Microsoft Word Help & Tips and techniques (many macro based)
that I haven't found discussed or explained better elsewhere. More
disclaimer - That is not to say that better isn't out there
 .
The internet coupled with the power of
popular search engines and Microsoft Word user forums like newsgroups provides a vast storehouse of
questions and answers covering almost every conceivable Microsoft Word issue. I think
the best place for a Microsoft Word beginner to start is with a visit to Shauna
Kelly's
"Basic Concepts for New Users." A link to Shauna's web page is provided at
the end of this page as well as links to some of my other favorite Microsoft Word
sites. Thanks
for visiting my Microsoft Word Help and Tips Page. You can browse the
pages using the title and topic summaries listed below or search my site
using the Google search engine. I hope you find your answer here. |
| |
|
|
|
|
One user reported they could not see a few of the images that I present
on my tips pages. If you experience this problem you might consider
"whitelisting" my page host "mvps.org" in your Internet security Ad Blocking
application. |
|
Add Classic Form Controls to the
Word2007 Developer Tab |
| |
This Microsoft Word Help & Tips page shows you a simple
example of ribbon customization while restoring some useful controls to
their rightful place on the UI. |
| Add File Name and
Path to Application Title Bar and Word Documents |
| |
Out of the box Microsoft Word places the file name on the title
bar. Here are some tips for displaying the file name in individual
documents and displaying the file name and path in documents or the
title bar. |
Add Interactive
Toggle Objects to Simple Word
Documents. |
| |
Have you ever wanted to add a little flair to your Microsoft
Word documents like
a check box
so an on screen user can toggle checked or unchecked without using a
protected form? Here are step by step instructions for creating this little trick
plus a complete template with toolbar for creating interactive checkboxes,
"X" boxes, buttons and arrows. Updated with a method for
creating toggles on the fly so your toggles can work when documents are sent
to other users. |
Add "COPY" Watermark to Printed Documents  |
| |
Add a temporary "COPY" watermark when printing second and
subsequent copies of a saved document. |
|
Address a Letter Using as
UserForm |
| |
A UserForm lets you quickly prepare PC generated
correspondence to friend, clients, or customers. |
|
Ampersand "&" in Dropdown
Field |
| |
Display and print an ampersand "&" in a
Microsoft Word protected form
dropdown field. |
|
AutoCorrect Generator |
| |
Use this handy method for creating multiple Microsoft Word AutoCorrect
entries. |
|
(no offense ladies. It's nostalgic) |
| Banner
Text and Other Nifty Applications of EQ Fields |
| |
The Microsoft Word EQ field is a handy tool for creating
simple text effects. |
BookMark Tool and my new
Compact BookMark Tool |
| |
An improved user interface for adding, deleting and browsing
bookmarks in Microsoft Word documents. |
|
Build and Deploy Custom Building
Block Gallery |
| |
A quick and easy way to build and deploy a built-in custom
building block gallery/galleries from the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT), Ribbon, or
building block type Content Control. |
|
Build Google Search String from Selected
Text |
| |
Some handy VBA for quickly creating a Google search string
from selected text. |
|
Building Blocks & AutoText
(Word 2007) |
| |
A discussion on building blocks in Word2007 and their
relationship to the AutoText feature in earlier Word version. Includes
an AddIn for with enhanced tools for working with building blocks. |
|
Calculated Dates |
| |
Use a little VBA and Microsoft Word fields to easily calculate and
roll back or roll forward a date in your Microsoft Word documents. |
|
Clean Up Text |
|
|
Quickly and easily clean text of unwanted leading\trailing
characters or formatting. |
|
Create and employ
a UserForm |
|
|
In this Microsoft Word Help & Tips page I will show you how to create and
employ a UserForm from a document template. I have held off publishing
this page for over a year because there is already a page on this topic
published on the MVP FAQ page
Create
a UserForm. This page is not intended to diminish the
helpfulness of that page. However the MVP FAQ article provides
only the bare bone basics where with this page I will attempt to enhance
some of the methods and provide examples of several available UserForm
controls. |
|
Create/Format Fractions |
|
|
Links to several tips and techniques for entering formatted fractions in
Word documents and a macro for processing all the fractions in a document in
a simple one step procedure. |
|
Create List of Files in
Any Folder |
|
|
Provides a VBA template AddIn solution for the task of listing files and
selected file data located in any folder and sub-folders. You
could use it to create a list of files on you floppy drives or flash thumb
drives. |
|
Create Mapped Content
Controls |
|
|
This tips page is an extension of my popular
Repeating Data page and provides a user friendly AddIn that makes
creating mapped content controls a breeze. This has been one of my
favorite projects!! Updated to add a means of mapping an existing Content
Control. |
|
Count Lines of Text |
|
|
Hope for the frustrated transcriptions. |
|
Count Selected
Word\Phrase |
|
|
Provides a simple macro that you
can use to quickly count the number of times a selected word or phrase is
used in your document text. |
| Conditional Headers
and Footers |
| |
Some tips for controlling display of Microsoft
Word header and footer text. |
|
Currency Format |
| |
Automatically apply currency format to simple
numeric text in table cells and update calculations. |
|
 |
|
Custom Content Control Checkboxes |
| |
A VBA template AddIn that provides a Content
Control Checkbox. These checkboxes can perform independently or be set
in groups where only one checkbox can be checked at a time. |
|
Custom VBA Message Box |
| |
Create a custom VBA message box to expand
Microsoft Word user
options. |
|
Customize the Ribbon (It doesn't take Rocket Science) |
| |
A step by step procedure to show you that you can customize
the Office2007 Fluent Ribbon Interface without expensive addin software
formal experience as a developer. I did it! |
|
Customize the
Word2007 Shortcut Menus |
| |
A VBA method for adding built-in or custom commands to
Word2007 shortcut menus |
| Date
Sequencer |
| |
A user interface tool for making date entries in Microsoft Word
documents. |
|
 |
|
Date & Time Stamp |
| |
Quickly and easily inert the current date or time in your
Microsoft Word document. |
|
DocBundler |
| |
DocBundler is a document
automation process developed by Word MVP Greg Maxey (me).
It consists of a central Data Sheet template containing VBA processing
instructions, and a set of related templates that you can customize and use
to create sets (or "bundles") of Word Documents that draw data from the Data
Sheet. |
|
Document Splitter |
|
|
A easy to use AddIn that splits the active document into one or more
individual files based on a user defined delimiter. The AddIn
contains lots of neat VBA tricks like code for picking a file path and
validating a string. |
|
Document User
Instructions |
| |
Inspired after fellow Microsoft Word MVP Graham Mayor pointed me to
the tree while I was searching the forest . A few simple techniques for
providing users of your documents with amplifying instructions. |
|
Dynamic Menu Controls (Word2007) |
| |
How to steps for designing and employing the dynamicMenu
control with Word2007 ribbon customization. |
|
Error Handling 101 |
| |
A few tips and examples for using error handlers in VBA |
|
Extract Document Data |
| |
This is a companion tips page to Extract Data from FormFields
below. You can use the methods shown here to extract data from individual
documents saved in your file directories. |
|
Extract Data from FormFields |
| |
Macro code and illustrations for extracting data from
multiply Microsoft Word protected forms and displaying the results in Access or Word. |
|
Field Macros |
|
|
A collection of macros for working with the Microsoft Word field collection. |
|
 |
|
"Find It" Tool Bar |
| |
A handy Add-In useful for counting, marking, or killing
text. |
|
Find and Replace w/Long Strings |
| |
Overcome the 255 character limitation in Microsoft Word Find and
Replace strings. |
|
FormField UserForm ListBox |
| |
Shows an efficient method to overcome the 25 item limitation
of FormField DropDown list fields. |
|
Found Where You Are Not Looking |
| |
Or how to overcome the unexpected behavior Word presents
when you attempt to perform a VBA Find operation in a defined bookmark
range. |
|
Group File Opener |
| |
A Microsoft Word Add-In that makes it easy to save or save and close a
group of files. Then reopen the same group of files with a click of a
button. |
|
Highlighter (My Custom Highlighter) |
| |
A Microsoft Word Add-in that provides "subdued" colors for shading
text (a work around for the garish colors in the built-in highlighter tool. |
|
 |
|
Insert Text "At" or "In"
a Bookmark |
| |
Tips and methods for inserting text at or in a bookmarked
location in a document with VBA. |
|
Interactive UserForm Checkboxes |
| |
Examples and code for making checkboxes in your UserForms
interactive with checkboxes in your documents. |
|
Linked FormField DropDown List |
| |
Examples and VBA code for creating a pair of linked dropdown
fields. The user selection in the primary field determines the list
items in the second field. |
|
List Spelling Errors |
| |
A useful macro or Microsoft Word Addin for creating a spelling error
summary report. |
| Margin
Text |
| |
A macro to quickly create a handy margin text style |
|
Master Your Form Fields |
| |
Some examples and tips for using Run On Entry and Run On
Exit macros to empower form fields. |
|
Modify Content Control Placeholder
Text
|
| |
A simply macro utility for modifying ContentControl
placeholder text. |
|
 |
|
Never Use ^13 in the "Replace With"
Field |
| |
Or "Why don't my paragraphs act like paragraphs?" "I
can't sort them or format them as individual paragraphs." |
|
Numbered Labels |
| |
A link to my Englishman friend and fellow MVP Graham Mayor's
site. In a collaborative effort, Graham and I present several
methods for placing sequential numbers on labels. |
|
Outlook Interoperability |
| |
A Word2007 AddIn for interoperability with Outlook. |
|
Pass Data To/From a UserForm |
| |
Methods, with examples, for passing information to a
Microsoft Word UserForm from a calling macro and from a UserForm to a calling macro. |
| Page Numbering |
|
|
Links to popular Microsoft Word MVP FAQ pages plus a few tips for dual
numbering and alternative field numbering. |
|
Play Sound Byte When
Document Opens |
|
|
A novelty Microsoft Word Help and Tips Page demonstrating the use of API. |
|
Populate a UserForm
ListBox |
|
|
Explanations, illustrations, and code for populating a UserForm ListBox |
|
Populate a
UserForm List/ComboBox with Data from XML Source |
|
|
An addendum to the page listed above. |
|
Print Numbered Copies
|
|
|
This Microsoft Word Help and Tips Page shows you how to use a macro for printing multiple
numbered copies of a document. |
|
|
| Process All
Files in a Batch Folder |
| |
Quickly designate a batch folder and perform a macro process on all
files in the folder. |
|
Proofreader Marks Add-In (An exercise in advanced Ribbon customization
techniques) |
| |
A functional Add-In for inserting proofreading annotations as comments
in a Word document. The primary purpose of developing this Add-In was
to illustrate an advanced Ribbon customization technique. |
|
Put Track Changes in Word2002 Back On Track |
| |
Microsoft really gooned up the track changes in Word2002.
If you are used to seeing your deleted text with a strike through and want
that feature back then you're almost home. |
|
Recently Used Files Editor |
| |
A Userform interface to quickly remove files from the
Microsoft Word
"Recently Used Files" List. |
|
Rename a Batch of Files |
| |
Use handy macros to quickly rename a batch of document files. |
|
Rename FormFields |
| |
A simple macro for globally renaming formfields throughout a
document with the default designation and index number. |
|
 |
| Repeating Data (or
Populating Fields)
|
| |
A common question from Microsoft Word users is "How do I enter data
such as client name, account number, etc. once and have it repeated
automatically in other parts of the document?" This Tips Page provides some
links to comprehensive solutions as well as tips for quick easy solutions to
basic documents. |
|
Repurpose User Interface
(U/I) Controls |
| |
Some methods and demonstration for repurposes U/I controls. |
|
Reverse Number a List |
| |
This Microsoft Word Help and Tips Page shows you how to use a macro to quickly apply reverse numbering to a selected
list. |
|
Ribbon Custom Icons |
| |
Apply custom icons (e.g., icons created with the Word2003
Button Editor) to Word2007 custom ribbon controls. |
| Ribbon Images & Labels
A
five part series to show various tips, methods, and work-a-rounds for
taking full advantage of ribbon control attributes for customizing your
ribbon UI images and labels. |
| |
Ribbon Images &
Labels: Part I. This page illustrates image and label
changes you can make with existing built-in office controls. |
| |
Ribbon Images &
Labels: Part II. This page illustrates adding built-in or custom images
and labels to custom controls. |
| |
Ribbon Images & Labels: Part III.
This page illustrates loading and using custom images from external sources. |
| |
Ribbon Images & Labels: Part IV.
Apply built-in or custom images and labels on the "on the fly" to
dynamic ribbon controls such as togglebuttons, dropdowns, and comboboxes. |
| |
Ribbon Images & Labels: Part V.
Demonstrates a work-a-round allowing you to access custom images located in
the document's OpenXML Format file data store folder "customUI\Images" using
the ribbons getImage attribute. |
|
Ribbon Gallery Control |
| |
A continuation of my quest to understand and master working
with the new Ribbon UI controls. This Microsoft Word Help & Tips page
provides examples and discussion on using the gallery control with an
introduction to the editbox, checkbox, and dialogBoxLauncher. |
|
Ribbon Menu Controls
|
| |
A continuation of my quest to understand and master working
with the new Ribbon UI controls. This Microsoft Word Help & Tips page
provides examples and discussion on using the menu, splitButton, and
dynamicMenu controls. |
|
SEQ Field Numbering |
| |
A explanation of SEQ field list numbering with a handy
add-in for creating and working with numbered lists. |
|
|
|
Sort a List and Delete Duplicates |
| |
Simple VBA solution to sort a list and delete duplicate
entries. |
|
Spacing After Sentences |
| |
Automatically set two spaces following each full stop
sentence punctuation mark. |
|
Spell
Checking in UserForm TextBoxes |
| |
Illustrations and macro code that shows you how to spell
check UserForm TextBoxes. |
|
Spell Out Currency |
| |
This Microsoft Word Help and Tips Page shows you how to use a Word field
to spell out values up to $100,000.00 and if you
are really feeling generous there is a VBA method for values up to
$9,999,999,999,999.99 |
| Style
Report |
| |
Quickly scan your Microsoft Word documents to review style usage. Use
the prompts to decide if you will "keep" or "delete" various styles in the
document. Update to include improved custom VBA message boxes. |
|
(no offense ladies. It's nostalgic) |
|
Table Cell Data |
| |
A convenient macro for determining Microsoft Word table and cell
information. |
|
Table Cell Data (Word 2007 Version) |
| |
An enhanced version of the orginal Table Cell Data AddIn
above with new features using advanced Ribbon customization techniques. |
|
Table Sorter |
|
|
A Microsoft Word AddIn you can use to sort table data left to right or top to
bottom. |
|
Toggle Data Display |
|
|
"How can I create a document so that the display of
information can be expanded and collapsed?" |
|
TRIFECTA (or UserForm
Diminishing List) |
|
|
A UserForm method for selecting items from a series of
diminishing lists. |
|
Unlink Header
and Footer After Adding New Section |
|
|
This Microsoft Word Help and Tips Page shows you how to use VBA to quickly add a new section and make changes to the
header or footer text without affection other headers or footers in the
document. |
|
Validate ContentControl
Entries |
|
|
Overcome the "Bug" in the Document Event ContentControl OnExit procedure.
This opens endless possibilities for using the event to validate text that
users enter in your ContentControls. |
|
Validate UserForm
Text Entry |
|
|
Process for validating UserForm text entry with sample code
for displaying UserForm data at bookmarks in a document. |
|
(no offense ladies. It's nostalgic) |
|
VBA Find and Replace |
|
|
An Add-in providing a simple user interface for performing
find and replace processing on multiple documents located in a common
directory and processing multiple find and replace words or phrases. |
|
Word Fields |
|
|
Step by step instructions for inserting fields in your
Microsoft Word
documents.
|
|
Word Usage and Frequency |
|
|
A Word VBA Add-In to facilitate reporting word usage and
frequency in a Word document. |
