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How This Book Is Organized

The book is divided into several chapters, organized by subject:

Chapter 1

This chapter offers a couple of introductory hacks to bring you up to
speed on several of the topics and techniques used throughout the
rest of the book, such as modifying menus and toolbars and creating
and editing VBA macros.

Chapter 2

This chapter includes hacks for improving the way you interact with
Word. Among other things, it shows you how to gain more control over
view and options settings, as well as how to add custom images to
toolbar buttons.

Chapter 3

This chapter explores Word's formatting features,
including hacks on creating better image borders and custom
watermarks. It also shows you how to create footnotes for tables.

Chapter 4

From advanced wildcard searching to automatic cross-referencing, the
hacks in this chapter are all about editing efficiently. Several
hacks in this chapter show you how to add features not built into
Word, such as the ability to remove all hyperlinks or bookmarks in a
document at once.

Chapter 5

This chapter includes hacks that show you how to take advantage of
two of Word's most powerful features, and even how
to use Word outlines to automatically generate attractive
organizational charts.

Chapter 6

This chapter tackles some of Word's most aggravating
annoyances, such as document bloat and corrupt registry data, and
also shows you a few ways to hack your way around some of
Word's built-in limitations.

Chapter 7

The hacks in this chapter offer some intermediate and advanced
techniques for improving macro performance. In addition, there are
hacks on moving beyond VBA basics and on doing things such as adding
a progress bar to a macro and creating macros that automatically
respond to application events.

Chapter 8

The hacks in this chapter show you how to take full advantage of
Word's fields, which can be intimidating but offer
powerful control over document content. Among other things, this
chapter shows you how to easily add an interactive calendar to a
form, perform advanced date calculations automatically, and
sequentially number documents.

Chapter 9

In true hacking spirit, this chapter explores how to cajole and
contort Word into doing things no word processor was meant to do,
such as performing full system backups (with reporting) and emulating
the popular Unix text editor Emacs. In addition, there are hacks on
controlling Word from other Office applications and from three of the
most popular scripting languages (Perl, Python, and Ruby), along with
a hack on how to use VBScript's powerful regular
expression functions from within Word.

Chapter 10, Word 2003 XML Hacks

This chapter shows you how important XML support is to Word 2003.
There are several hacks on using XSLT
(Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) to create, process,
and edit Word documents, and even a hack on how to add a Google
search feature to the Word 2003 Task Pane.