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Macros for Word Users
This document contains many of the Word Basic macros we've developed over the years
to make life with Word a little easier. Some of the macros are useful only
to Help developers, others address more general needs.
The download is a zipped text file containing the following macros:
- CompareStyleCount
- Compares the number of custom styles in the active document
to the number of custom styles in the associated template
- StyleList
- Lists PARAGRAPH styles used in the active document
- RemoveUnusedStyles
- Removes unused styles from the active document
- MergeFromTemplate
- Merges paragraph styles from the active document's template
- FontList
- Lists fonts used in the active document
- MergeIndex
- Merge RH's "letter" paragraphs and inserted topic-jump paragraphs
- GoToTopicNumber
- Jumps to the specified topic number, by page break
- PrintOutline
- Prints an outline (heading 1 through heading 5) of the current file
- PrintAllNoBreaks
- Prints the current file without manual (hard-coded) page breaks
- HiddenText
- Toggles display of hidden text
- PicturePlaceholders
- Toggles display of pictures and picture placeholders
- FieldCodes
- Toggles display of field codes
- TextBoundaries
- Toggles display of text boundaries in page layout view
- KeepTogether
- Prevents a soft page break within the selected paragraph
- KeepWithNext
- Prevents a soft page break after the selected paragraph
- PageBreakBefore
- Toggles forcing the selected paragraph to the top of the next page
- ParagraphJumps
- Makes each paragraph's text into a Help jump
- HyphensToUnderscores
- In selection, converts HIDDEN hyphens to underscores
- SpacesToUnderscores
- In selection, converts HIDDEN spaces to underscores
- InsertEmptyFootnoteRefs
- Inserts footnote references for topic ID (#),
topic title ($), keywords (K), and either
window class (>) or browse sequence (+)
- MakeFootnoteMarkerAt
- Changes single selected footnote marker to @
- CharacterColor
- Changes the color of the selected text
- SmallCapsForHelp
- In selection, converts lowercase letters to 7-point "small fonts"
- ConfirmConversions
- Makes it easier to open RTF files as text
- Factorial
- Demonstrates that Word Basic macros are recursive
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