I hate word automation....

I suppose you know that to make these commands work from within VB you need to precede all Word command by the Word.Document object.

but of course....

Hee Geert - long time no hear....

:)

I'll check it out.

for good documenations for word automation

look at
http://www.microsoft.com/officedev/articles/Opg/007/007.htm

Hey - I have another question about Word Automation, er, <cough> "elsewhere".... perhaps you might want to look at that?

Yes, of course.

I have been completely absent of EE, but recently saw the new look, and before you know, back answering questions ;-)

LOL - I saw the new look too. Thankfully there weren't any razorblades near....

Hi,

  If you want to find all [[...]], use this:

  With Selection.Find
   .UseWildCards= true
   .Text = "\[\[*\]\]"
  End With
  'attention at this line, don't include it in the WITH block !!!! otherwise you will office automation even more :-)
  while Selection.Find.Execute
    ....
  wend

CHeers

Angel, I was *just* going to ask something like that !

:)

Damn. I wish you could split points here like you can on some other site I wont' mention.

Have you tried to use 'record the macro'?

:-))
Don't mind the points...

So you have noticed that I started answering question that have not even been posted ...
CHeers

As to a detailed documentation on Word Object Model why not search for VBA*.CHM files in your MS-Office directory. You will find one for Word, Excel, etc.

pino,

How is the site that we can't mention running, a lot of activity? It seems that a lot of topics are quite empty for the moment, which is a pity looking at the work you accomplished.

Not too bad, Geert, remember that threads don't necessarily get archived there.

Lounge is quite busy. Other areas are very slowly gathering steam. I think it'll get there. Eventually.

WTF is the timeout on this site? I type a comment - "resource not available" !?>!:?

NFI !

I have noticed that instead of the good old jsp pages thrown at us, now from time to time a page remains black without text on parts of it and nothing happens...

EDDYKT has the best idea...

Use Word to record a macro - work it over in Word until it does most of what you want, then you have about 80% of your word automation code.

yes use the recorder
and leave the macro in word
and call the macro from your vb program
its a lot faster and easier

Leaving macros in word are not an option as some of our customers may have rather strict security settings. But using a macro to record stuff for later reference sounds like the sort of pragmatic approach that I like :)

Excuse me people, but why would one record a macro except for learning how certain obscure command are hidden inside Office VBA applications?

For the kind of Task Pino is after here, (the use of the Formfields.Result property is the only viable one for filling out formfields), the correct property cannot be recorded by a macro.

It is good to use it, but in the end you'll need to twist the generated code around and reuse it in a right and efficient way.

Hi caraf_g,
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    Accept calacuccia's comment(s) as an answer.

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Hi Dan,

Like Idi Amin said: "Don't meddle in things you don't understand".

Although I can't honestly say I give two hoots as to what happens to this question, I don't think calacuccia answered the question even though his comments were much appreciated.

Come on Pino, be fair:  Dan is doing a thankless job in a thankless place.  Put yourself in his position and had to pick an answer, how would you judge the answers to this question.  

Anthony

acperkins, if I were to put myself in Dan's position I would have the decency not to sign comments like the above with an official-looking "EE Signature". It pisses me off.

Anyway - because there certainly are no hard feelings toward calacuccia I've increased the points to 200 and I've awarded the Q to him.

;P

caraf_g and acperkins,
Thanks for your continuing support.
-- Dan