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Word Hacks

By
Andrew Savikas

Publisher: O''''Reilly

Pub Date: November 2004

ISBN: 0-596-00493-1

Pages: 396

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

Section 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 "Char" Styles

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 "Char" Styles with XSLT

Hack 99.
Use Google from Your Macros

Hack 100.
Google Without Leaving Word

Colophon

Index