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Are .doc files used for electronic delivery?
I get the impression that .doc files can't be used for electronic
delivery because some of the features (custom autotext, styles) are not in the .doc file. Is that true? |
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Are .doc files used for electronic delivery?
What *exactly* is it that you are trying to achieve?
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Tom Adams" wrote in message ... I get the impression that .doc files can't be used for electronic delivery because some of the features (custom autotext, styles) are not in the .doc file. Is that true? |
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Are .doc files used for electronic delivery?
On Oct 15, 10:02*am, "Graham Mayor" wrote:
What *exactly* is it that you are trying to achieve? -- Graham Mayor - *Word MVP My web sitewww.gmayor.com Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org "Tom Adams" wrote in message ... I get the impression that .doc files can't be used for electronic delivery because some of the features (custom autotext, styles) are not in the .doc file. Is that true?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I work for one organization. We deliver documents to another organization. I think we are in the practice of delivering .doc files as electronic delivery. (Not sure, the person who knows is out today.) I was working on a document today and realized that my custom autotext fields were not stored in the .doc file. They are stored somewhere in my environment. I am pretty sure that if this .doc file is delivered to my client, then various things will start showing up as "Error! Autotext entry not found" or something like that. If the client tried to print the document, it looks like the autotext are automatically updated, but without the right environment that updating will fail. Also, some googling seemed to imply that certain style elements may also not be in the .doc file, so that the format will change if the client opens the file in a different environment. I am trying to figure out if all this is true. |
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Are .doc files used for electronic delivery?
If the aim is that the recipient can print a hard copy of the document and
have it appear exactly as you see it then send a PDF format document and use only standard fonts. If the document needs to be editable then you can unlink any fields it contains that may be changed by updating.. The following macro will unlink all the fields in the document Dim oStory As Range For Each oStory In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges oStory.Fields.Update If oStory.StoryType wdMainTextStory Then While Not (oStory.NextStoryRange Is Nothing) Set oStory = oStory.NextStoryRange oStory.Fields.Unlink Wend End If Next oStory Set oStory = Nothing. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Tom Adams" wrote in message ... On Oct 15, 10:02 am, "Graham Mayor" wrote: What *exactly* is it that you are trying to achieve? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web sitewww.gmayor.com Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org "Tom Adams" wrote in message ... I get the impression that .doc files can't be used for electronic delivery because some of the features (custom autotext, styles) are not in the .doc file. Is that true?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I work for one organization. We deliver documents to another organization. I think we are in the practice of delivering .doc files as electronic delivery. (Not sure, the person who knows is out today.) I was working on a document today and realized that my custom autotext fields were not stored in the .doc file. They are stored somewhere in my environment. I am pretty sure that if this .doc file is delivered to my client, then various things will start showing up as "Error! Autotext entry not found" or something like that. If the client tried to print the document, it looks like the autotext are automatically updated, but without the right environment that updating will fail. Also, some googling seemed to imply that certain style elements may also not be in the .doc file, so that the format will change if the client opens the file in a different environment. I am trying to figure out if all this is true. |
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Are .doc files used for electronic delivery?
If you want to distribute not only document content, but also AutoText
entries (and/or macros) to other people, you will have to send them both the document and the appropriate template. Actual contents and styles in the document won't change, but the appearance of the document on the target computer may be different depending on the fonts and printer driver installed. Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Tom Adams" wrote in message ... I get the impression that .doc files can't be used for electronic delivery because some of the features (custom autotext, styles) are not in the .doc file. Is that true? |
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Are .doc files used for electronic delivery?
See also http://word.mvps.org/faqs/macrosvba/...buteMacros.htm.
Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... If you want to distribute not only document content, but also AutoText entries (and/or macros) to other people, you will have to send them both the document and the appropriate template. Actual contents and styles in the document won't change, but the appearance of the document on the target computer may be different depending on the fonts and printer driver installed. Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Tom Adams" wrote in message ... I get the impression that .doc files can't be used for electronic delivery because some of the features (custom autotext, styles) are not in the .doc file. Is that true? |
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This is great - I can really use this too, but I find, that it "only" unlinks fields on the actual "frontpage" of the document - I have fields I'd like to unlink in both the header and the frontpage - and they are in textboxes to make things more complicated :-) Can the macro be modified in order to reach such items too? Thanky you very much in advance! |
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