Save paper by using OneNote, Word or other methods or saving pages for later reading. “I know it’s old fashioned but I like to print out web pages that interest me and refer to later. But now my printer is broken and while I wait for repairs I have a
Wrapping up our look at Master Documents in Word with some extra tips. We’ve been looking at Master Documents in Word and here’s some extra tips to help you get the most from this once feared Word feature that’s come good … · Feature like Page number, Header and
Don’t be afraid – Word’s Master Documents is stable and worth using. The term ‘Master Document’ may cause many to scorn if not outright panic especially those who have been using Word 97 or 2000 version. The most common problem which people faced earlier was the corruption of master documents
According to Microsoft, Office passwords can be up to 255 characters, however our tests of Office 2007 found an interesting and apparently undocumented bug in Word 2007. Writing a book means delving into details and finding the unexpected – that happened as we prepared Privacy and Security in Microsoft Office.
Here’s the known situation regarding an enforced change to Word 2007 and Word 2003. We’ll update this page as hard information becomes available. Microsoft isn’t exactly forthcoming about this problem so there are more questions than we’d like and even less answers. Office Watch asked a series of questions to
How to insert a field in a Word document that calculates dates. Q: George Forsythe writes: “I want to insert a field in a Word document that calculates Tomorrow’s date. It would be even better if I could make it Next Weekday’s date. There seems to be no intuitively obvious
Using the Office Envelope Object in Office 2000 – what works and what doesn’t. Some readers have asked whether the Office Envelope Object (featured in Access Archon #122) can be used in Office 2000. Well, sort of. While writing the article, I tested the two procedures in Office 2000 and
Charles Hui writes: After reading your article “ACCESS Archon Column #44 – Merging to Word from Linked Access”, I have expanded my WORD template to include a table and have successfully created letters using custom doc property and table together. In our letters, the fixed Borrower Name and Address are
How to successfully merge data from Access to Word. Q: Bruce Michael writes: “I have been attempting to do a merge in Word 2003 using an Access 2003 query. When I look in the query, the data is correct, but when I actually merge using the data, for one column
More on how to merge data from recordsets and queries to Word documents. Access Archon #168 Creating Queries on-the-fly for Filtering Data If you need to send letters to customers, and want the option of filtering by any country, not just the ones with the most customers, the frmMergeToWordDocProps
Access Archon #174 The code that does the work of listing, clearing and copying doc properties is listed below. VBA Code Private Sub cmdCopy_Click() On Error GoTo ErrorHandler Dim cbo As Access.ComboBox Dim intType As Integer Set cbo = Me![cboSelectTableOrQuery] strTemplate = Nz(Me![txtTemplate].Value)
How to merge data from a recordset based on a query to Word documents. Access Archon #168 Introduction An AW reader wrote to me asking if the document properties merge code in my Code Sample #24could be modified to merge data to Word from a query, instead of selections
A look at a few of the embarrassing glitches in Word 2003’s in-built dictionary function. How do you spell ‘Barack Obama’? Maybe it’s ‘Barrack Osama’ ? Word 2003, Vista or Windows Server 2008 might tell you that. click here for more … See Also Why is an eighth grader smarter
Access Archon #174 Introduction Many of my code samples write data from Access tables or queries to document properties in Word documents. For this technique to work, you have to add the appropriate doc properties to the Word template, which can be a time-consuming process. In this article I
About the feature that Microsoft has to remove from Office 2007. Just what is the ‘Custom XML’ feature that Microsoft has to remove from Office 2007? The Office 2007 document formats (docx xlsx pptx etc.) are stored in XML format which looks like the HTML used in web pages. For
Microsoft says it’s been working on the Word 2007 patent patch for months, so why does it look like a rush job? As we’ve previously reported, Microsoft lost another round of the ‘Custom XML’ patent case and must stop selling, in the USA, Office 2007 with the offending code after
Microsoft loses another round in a Word patent case, an Office update is coming in the new year. A US court judgment seems to have forced Microsoft to release an update to Office 2007 in the new year. The US Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the judgment that
It’s too late for Christmas cards but not too late for a simple Xmas Email. We’re the first to admit that sending a Christmas email isn’t the most traditional method but it can be done with good cheer and grace. Here’s just one example from a friend and some tips
VBA macros should migrate from Word 2003 to 2007 but don’t bet on it. Yes, VBA macros from Word 2003 should work in Word 2007. We always say ‘should’ because there are inevitably changes in VBA behaviors between versions of Office and “Murphy’s Law” says that one of these ‘minor’
How to convert a PDF to a Word document and why it’s so hard. ” One of the things that drives me crazy is that it’s easy to convert documents from Microsoft Word 2007 to PDF (for commercial printing) but very hard to convert PDF back to Word without screwing
Doc Scrubber lets you remove hidden Word info without Word itself. Some years ago, Microsoft ‘discovered’ the problem of ‘meta-data’, their term for the additional information in a Word document that you might not want to share with others. The most common meta-data problem is revisions – you might not
A new ebook on using Microsoft Access to make great Word documents. Office Watch and Helen Feddema are delighted to announce the publication of a new Office Watch ebook especially for Microsoft Access users. Access Archon – Working with Word by Helen Feddema, editor of Access Watch. Like
You can now upload Word and Excel 2007 files to Google’s online editor. Today Google announced that their Google Docs service will support Word 2007 .docx files and Excel 2007 .xlsx files. That saves Office 2007 users from having to ‘Save As’ to another format before uploading to Google Docs.
Taming notes and scraps of info with OneNote, Word and beyond. Farhad Manjoo in The New York Times has a good summary of the various note-taking programs available. These are programs which help you keep all those scraps of information, links, chunks of text etc that accumulate. There is Microsoft
