Recent content by MrRedwood

Only a small number of them are actually Word docs, but I'll try that trick for those -- thanks. The rest are pre-printed things we get from outside the company; PDFs are becoming more common. I think I remember that the Macintosh version of Word can actually insert PDFs into the Word document...

I'm not up to date with Word 2007, but in my experience drawing objects obey positioning instructions better if you turn off "move object with text" (assuming it's on). Go to Format>Picture...>Layout>Advanced... Word 2007 probably moved all this around, so you might have to explore. Even if...

I've been trying to explore various fields to do this, and it all came down to this: { SET PAGE { = { PAGE } + 20 } } doesn't work -- apparently it discards the result or creates a bookmark PAGE that is different from the 'real' PAGE. { SET Foobar { = { PAGE } + 20 } } does result in a correct...

Sorry I haven't made this clear: that is precisely what I am already doing. Scenario: Section 1 is currently 20 pages; section 2 is a document that is four pages long that will be inserted after printing; section 3 is another 10 pages. Section 2 is currently a single page marked "replace this...

But I did get that far. The next page is the first of a new section, and has an appropriate manually set page numbers. The problem is when one of my writers adds text to a section, and another shuffles paragraphs between sections, etc., forcing a complete manual adjustment of those manually...

I'm compiling large documents that sometimes must have insertions (e.g., previously printed stuff) that is accounted for in the page numbering. When the insertion is only a page or two I often just create fake pages ("replace this placeholder with..."), but when an entire Annual Report is...

Mike - thanks for the huge amount of work. I'm gonna keep studying that code and try to learn something, but... As you recognized, Tony nailed it. However: this was tough enough that I hope one of you two could write a nice FAQ for future users? It certainly simplifies writing macros for large...

I don't see how that helps. The problem isn't finding names of any arbitrary check box, but the specific name of the one that has just been checked. If, for example, the "gotfocus" event were not an event, but a property, then I could cycle through the checkboxes and see which one had the...

OK, more details: This is in Excel. I believe I was once able to do the equivalent in Word using "Selection", but my experiments in Excel seem to indicate that this won't work. Oh, Excel 2002, I believe. The checkboxes (etc) are directly placed on a single worksheet, since the user wants to be...

I have several dozen forms (checkboxes) that I hope can share a macro, since a bit more programming on one would be better than maintaining identical code for each. Scenario: for each question on an audit form, there might be a yes/no checkbox or a numerical spinner -- but there is always an...

It sounds like the author of one or more of your original source PDFs has turned on Security settings to prevent you from making these kinds of edits. Check by opening Document Properties (probably on your File menu) and look at the Security tab. You might also look around for a padlock icon...

I'm not sure how that's different -- the user fields that set the duration field are in a Q&A section on page one; the duration field is in a "results" section on page two. The fields that set the duration field already are variously setting and claring that field, depending on what users enter...

I've got a text field with the name (i.e., bookmark) of "Duration", which will have the result of the difference between two dates entered somewhere else in my form. When the dates are improperly set up (i.e., the end is before the beginning), I want to empy the duration field. I use...

How embarassing. I looked at the "About Microsoft Visual Basic" in the VB editor and saw v6.3 -- I thought I had found the correct forum. Thanks for the redirect.

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