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Word HacksTable of Contents
Copyright
Credits
About the Author
Contributors
Dedication
Preface
Why Word Hacks?
How to Use This Book
How This Book Is Organized
Conventions Used in This Book
Using Code Examples
How to Contact Us
Got a Hack?
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Word Under the Hood
Introduction: Hacks #1-2
Hack 1 Tweak the Interface
Hack 2 Macros 101: A Crash Course
Chapter 2. The Word Workspace
Introduction: Hacks #3-13
Hack 3 Hack Your Shortcut Menus
Hack 4 Create Custom Views
Hack 5 Revert to Saved
2.5 Quickly Change Your File Open Path
Hack 7 Report and Review Your Options
Hack 8 Force Internet Explorer to Hand Off Word Documents
Hack 9 Tweak the New Document Task Pane
Hack 10 Browse All Button Images
Hack 11 Create a Custom Button Image
Hack 12 Hack the Office Assistant
Hack 13 Build a Better MRU
Chapter 3. Formatting, Printing, and Table Hacks
Introduction: Hacks #14-26
Hack 14 Insert Placeholder Text
Hack 15 Sample Your System Fonts
Hack 16 Tab Me to Your Leader
Hack 17 Make Styles More Manageable with Aliases
Hack 18 Make a Simple Bar Graph
Hack 19 Put Footnotes in Tables
Hack 20 Repeat a Section Heading Across Pages
Hack 21 Simplify Borders Around Imported Images
Hack 22 Make More Flexible Captions
Hack 23 Make PDFs Without Acrobat
Hack 24 Create a Custom Text Watermark
Hack 25 Include Only Part of a Heading in a TOC
Hack 26 Put Crop Marks on a Page
Chapter 4. Editing Power Tools
Introduction: Hacks #27-44
Hack 27 Crunch Numbers Quickly in Word
Hack 28 Unlink Every Hyperlink
Hack 29 Exclude Text from Find and Replace
Hack 30 Use Character Codes to Find or Insert Special Characters
Hack 31 Find/Replace in Multiple Files
Hack 32 Find and Replace Without Find and Replace
Hack 33 Quickly Create a Custom Dictionary
Hack 34 Create a Dictionary Exclusion List
Hack 35 Disable Overtype Permanently
Hack 36 Delete All Comments in a Document
Hack 37 Delete All Bookmarks in a Document
Hack 38 Turn Comments into Regular Text
Hack 39 Apply Context-Sensitive Formatting
Hack 40 Send a Document as a Plain-Text Outlook Email
Hack 41 Swap Revision Authors
Hack 42 Corral Basic Bullets and Numbering
Hack 43 Cross-Reference Automatically
Hack 44 Hack More Flexible Cross-Referencing
Chapter 5. Templates and Outlines
Introduction: Hacks #45-50
Hack 45 Create an Outline-Only Copy of a Document
Hack 46 Build a Better Outline
Hack 47 Use an Outline to Build an Org Chart
Hack 48 Attach the Same Template to Multiple Files
Hack 49 Quickly Attach a Workgroup Template
Hack 50 Manage Macros with Templates
Chapter 6. Housekeeping
Introduction: Hacks #51-56
Hack 51 Troubleshoot Common Word Problems
Hack 52 Control Word Startup
Hack 53 Sidestep Formatting Restrictions
Hack 54 Rename Built-in Styles
Hack 55 Clean Out Linked
Hack 56 Reduce Document Bloat by Deleting Old List Templates
Chapter 7. Macro Hacks
Introduction: Hacks #57-69
Hack 57 Get Simple User Input for a Macro
Hack 58 Keep the Macros Dialog Box Tidy
Hack 59 Do Something to Every File in a Directory
Hack 60 Run Macros Automatically
Hack 61 Intercept Word Commands
Hack 62 Keep Custom Menus Under Control
Hack 63 Use Word Dialogs in a Macro
Hack 64 Optimize Your VBA Code
Hack 65 Show Progress from VBA
Hack 66 Hack Documents with For Each Loops
Hack 67 Store Settings and Data in .ini Files
Hack 68 Generate Random Numbers
Hack 69 Hack with Application Events
Chapter 8. Forms and Fields
Introduction: Hacks #70-79
Hack 70 Fake (and Easy) Fill-in Forms
Hack 71 Hack DATE Fields
Hack 72 Perform Calculations with Formula Fields
Hack 73 Format Numeric Field Results
Hack 74 Use Fields for Heavy-Duty Calculations
Hack 75 Include an Interactive Calendar in Your Forms
Hack 76 Use Custom Shortcut Menus to Make Frequent Selections
Hack 77 Number Documents Sequentially
Hack 78 Cross-Reference Among Documents
Hack 79 Convert Field Codes to Text and Back Again
Chapter 9. Advanced Word Hacks
Introduction: Hacks #80-89
Hack 80 Emulate Emacs with VBacs
Hack 81 Use Word as a Windows Backup Utility
Hack 82 Perform Power Text Searches with Regular Expressions
Hack 83 Show a Directory Structure as a Word Outline
Hack 84 Automate Word from Other Applications
Hack 85 Hack Word from Python
Hack 86 Hack Word from Perl
Hack 87 Hack Word from Ruby
Hack 88 Use Python from Word
Hack 89 Use Perl from Word
Chapter 10. Word 2003 XML Hacks
Introduction: Hacks #90-100
Hack 90 Get a Command-Line XML Processor
Hack 91 Create a Word Document in Notepad
Hack 92 Get the XML Toolbox
Hack 93 Use IE to Inspect WordprocessingML Documents
Hack 94 Transforming XML into a Word Document
Hack 95 Batch-Process Word Documents with XSLT
Hack 96 Standardize Documents with XSLT
Hack 97 Remove Direct Formatting with XSLT
Hack 98 Remove Linked
Hack 99 Use Google from Your Macros
Hack 100 Google Without Leaving Word
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