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Hello,
Is there a method to make Word a slideshow tool for text documents in a specific folder? Word would open these documents one by one for, say 2-3 seconds each and then close them down. The best I managed to come up with is inserted below, obviously I'm missing some sort of a "Pause" statement to tell Word to stop for a while on the line marked below. My top dream would be to make Word stop for as long as needed on an open document (keyboard combination) and then resume the routine (by another keyboard combination). Otherwise, with a few thousand files in a folder - all of which need to be opened for 3 seconds each - I'd be glued to the screen for hours :-(( Thanks. All the best Yarroll ------------ Dim wbkDocument As Document Dim i As Long Application.ScreenUpdating = False With Application.FileSearch ..NewSearch ..LookIn = "E:\work" ..SearchSubFolders = False ..FileName = "*.txt" ..MatchTextExactly = True ..FileType = msoFileTypeWordDocuments If .Execute(msoSortByFileName) 0 Then For i = 1 To .FoundFiles.Count Set wbkDocument = Documents.Open(.FoundFiles(i)) wbkDocument.Activate ' this is where I want Word to stop for a while wbkDocument.Close Next i Else MsgBox "No documents!" End If End With Application.ScreenUpdating = True End Sub |
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The short answer is no! What's the point of this exercise? Why do you need
to open all the documents in a folder for 3 seconds each. It seems pointless. The only way I can think of to create a true slideshow (and even then I don't know how useful it would be) would be to output all the documents as jpgs (for which you will need extra software - try SnagIt - www.techsmith.com). You could then use something like Google Picasa 2 to create an interactive slideshow of all the jpg's in a folder. I'll bet there is a simpler way to achieve your ultimate goal - if only we knew what it was -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Yarroll wrote: Hello, Is there a method to make Word a slideshow tool for text documents in a specific folder? Word would open these documents one by one for, say 2-3 seconds each and then close them down. The best I managed to come up with is inserted below, obviously I'm missing some sort of a "Pause" statement to tell Word to stop for a while on the line marked below. My top dream would be to make Word stop for as long as needed on an open document (keyboard combination) and then resume the routine (by another keyboard combination). Otherwise, with a few thousand files in a folder - all of which need to be opened for 3 seconds each - I'd be glued to the screen for hours :-(( Thanks. All the best Yarroll ------------ Dim wbkDocument As Document Dim i As Long Application.ScreenUpdating = False With Application.FileSearch .NewSearch .LookIn = "E:\work" .SearchSubFolders = False .FileName = "*.txt" .MatchTextExactly = True .FileType = msoFileTypeWordDocuments If .Execute(msoSortByFileName) 0 Then For i = 1 To .FoundFiles.Count Set wbkDocument = Documents.Open(.FoundFiles(i)) wbkDocument.Activate ' this is where I want Word to stop for a while wbkDocument.Close Next i Else MsgBox "No documents!" End If End With Application.ScreenUpdating = True End Sub |
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Użytkownik "Graham Mayor" napisał w wiadomości ... The short answer is no! What's the point of this exercise? Why do you need to open all the documents in a folder for 3 seconds each. It seems pointless. The only way I can think of to create a true slideshow (and even then I don't know how useful it would be) would be to output all the documents as jpgs (for which you will need extra software - try SnagIt - www.techsmith.com). You could then use something like Google Picasa 2 to create an interactive slideshow of all the jpg's in a folder. I'll bet there is a simpler way to achieve your ultimate goal - if only we knew what it was Thanks. I just have to check if all documents are correct in 2 specific aspects. And it cannot be done by a macro as the aspects are far from uniform. What it basically means, I have to look through them. Thanks for the idea of converting txt into jpgs. All the best Yarroll |
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SnagIt includes a 'printer' driver which will convert the documents to jpg
(one per page). You should be able to batch 'print' the whole folder in one operation. You can then page through them with windows image/fax viewer. There is a demo! The only other alternative I can think of is to open them in batches in Word and look at them directly. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Yarroll wrote: Użytkownik "Graham Mayor" napisał w wiadomości ... The short answer is no! What's the point of this exercise? Why do you need to open all the documents in a folder for 3 seconds each. It seems pointless. The only way I can think of to create a true slideshow (and even then I don't know how useful it would be) would be to output all the documents as jpgs (for which you will need extra software - try SnagIt - www.techsmith.com). You could then use something like Google Picasa 2 to create an interactive slideshow of all the jpg's in a folder. I'll bet there is a simpler way to achieve your ultimate goal - if only we knew what it was Thanks. I just have to check if all documents are correct in 2 specific aspects. And it cannot be done by a macro as the aspects are far from uniform. What it basically means, I have to look through them. Thanks for the idea of converting txt into jpgs. All the best Yarroll |
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