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-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "gman" wrote in message ... Thanks to all who have been patient in helping me with this issue. Adding this to my HTML code will make it easier to prepare the code for each photo for uploading to my website. 1) Okay, I see how the €˜Control €“ F9 method that is described operates, but I am still curious about using the Insert - Field - MacroButton method. After I select MacroButton under Field Names, what do I select on the right side where it says Macro Name? Do I type anything in the Display Text box? The macro name can be anything you like because the MacroButton field in this case isn't actually going to run a macro. NoMacro is usually used because it makes that clear. What you type in the Display Text box is what you want the field to display, such as [Click here and type name]. 2) How do you open the actual template to modify it? The only way I can find is to go to Windows Explorer and find the file, right click, select €˜open and make changes there. If I select €˜New under file, then €˜On my computer under templates on the right pane, right click on the template and select €˜open, it opens up a window that has the template, but it says €˜Template 1, for example, instead of the name that I gave the template. If I make changes and hit €˜save, it asks me what I want to say it to. I can select the template from the template list; however, this is different than when I open the template from Windows Explorer, which opens the template itself. When I hit €˜save there after making changes it just saves it without asking me where I want to save it. You open the template for modification (from within Word) by navigating to the Templates folder and opening it just as you would a document. Since I work with templates frequently, I have found it convenient to add the Templates folder to the Places Bar. To create a new document, you open the File New dialog, select your template, and either double-click on it or click OK (making sure that the Document radio button is selected. If you are using Word 2002 or 2003 and haven't created a button or menu entry for the FileNewDialog command, you'll have to select More... or On My Computer in the New Document task pane. 3) Is there a way to open templates, both the original template to modify and the template document, under File? I can not find a way to add €˜templates under File or to a toolbar. See above. 4) Can I add a shortcut under File or to a toolbar? This seems like a thing to do with macros. Maybe, however, there is an easier way than using a macro to do this. You can add a template to the Work menu. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/WorkMenu.htm 5) Is there a way to save often used text, such as name and address, address, MACROBUTTON NoMacro, etc. so that it can be inserted at a cursor location? In other words, for example, I want to type my name and address and save it. Then, I want to be able to position the cursor somewhere, right click and be able to select from a menu option that pops open a list of all the text I saved, and have it insert the text I select (my name and address, for example) where the cursor is located. Such things can be saved as AutoText entries. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AutoText.htm 6) Is there a way to have Word open without a blank document showing when it is first started? I want it to be like a browser window with nothing in it. Then, when I select €˜New under File, it opens the first document in a new window. The reason why I ask this is because I cannot find a way to close the original blank page that opens up when Word is started without Word closing entirely itself. In other words, selecting €˜Close under File when attempting to close the original document now acts like €˜Exit under File. Word will open without a document if you add the /n switch to the path of the shortcut used to start Word. See the Help topic "Customize how Word starts" at mk:@MSITStoC:\Program%20Files\Microsoft%20Offic e\OFFICE11\1033\wdmain11.c hm::/html/wohowControllingWhatHappensWhenYouStartWord.htm Thanks again. gman "Jay Freedman" wrote: In the page I cited before, it says See: Run a macro when a user double-clicks a button in the document for more details of how to create the field. Part of that sentence is in orange-brown type and is a hyperlink to another page, http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...roToButton.htm, which explains how to create a macrobutton field. What you want seems simple to you, but unfortunately Word was not designed to do it. It is possible to torture it into complying, more or less, but it isn't going to be anywhere near as painless as you want it to be. The issue of unusable Help and the lack of an index to it in Word 2003 is a completely different matter. We've complained, long and loud, to Microsoft about this unbelievable gaffe. To kill off the online help, open the Help task pane and click the Online Content Settings link at the bottom. In the dialog that comes up, uncheck the box for "Show content and links from Microsoft Office Online". Then you'll get only the offline help. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 14:13:03 -0700, "gman" wrote: Jay, I looked over what you sent and I really cannot figure this out. I mean, I can't even determine if MacroButton is a menu option. Can you just tell me exactly how this is created: { MACROBUTTON NoMacro [Click here and type name] } What I want to do seems so simple one would think there has to be a very intuitive and easy way to create it. It just seems that it would be so easy have something that works as I describe below to create what I want: 1. Select Template. 2. Select Information Insertion Point on toolbar or under Insert. 3. Place cursor where you want insertion point and description of information to be inserted. Hit enter. 4. In menu that pops up type the description for insertion point for information that is to be inserted. Hit enter. 5. Done I just don't have hours to spend researching how to do these seemingly simple task. I think that is the case with most average users, which explains why we get frustrated and never delve much into these Office Programs. Heck, I can't even figure out how to get Help to show me an index to search for topics. It's always trying to connect to online Help. Isn't there an offline Help with the program like there used to be? If so, where is it, and how do I stop Help from always trying to connect to the internet. Thanks, gman "Jay Freedman" wrote: OK, what you want is a lot simpler than a form. Have a look at the first part of the article at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFm...acroButton.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org gman wrote: Thanks, Jay, for the response. I will check out the tutorial links you suggest. More specifically, this is what I want to do: I copied the HTML code from one of my web pages into Word and created a template. I need to have places in the template where I can insert information, such a the photo's name before the .jpg extension, the photo's caption, etc. I would like to have someway of having a description at each insertion place of what is required and, also, to have something pop up into which one types what is to be inserted. The way I have it now is that I just have a description in red color in the HTML code in the template of what is needed at each insertion point, but I have to delete all this stuff before (or after) I enter the information. Anyway...any suggestions you have would be appreciated. Thanks, gman "Jay Freedman" wrote: gman wrote: Is there any manner to set up in a template and indicate in the template places where specific information should be entered? Thanks. Start with this tutorial article: Please Fill Out This Form Part 1: Create professional looking forms in Word http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=22 If that's what you want, there are more parts: Part 2: Adding Automation to your Word forms. http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=46 Part 3: Learn more VBA (macros) to automate your forms. http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=119 Part 4: Use custom dialog boxes in your Word forms http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=127 Part 5: Connect your AutoForm to a database to save input time and keep better records! http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=136 -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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