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Insert Date make Bold Macro
I don't know how to write macros but I do know how to record them and make
icons for them that I put on the toolbar. Or I did back before Word 2007. The goal is to have an icon always accessable on the toolbar, not in a contextual menu, where I can select a macro that inserts the date in a particular format and makes it bold and sets spacing following it. I had this in Word 2003. When I try to use the record macro function to do the above operations I am stuck because while the macro recorder is running, after I have inserted the date in a selected format, I am not able to highlight the date text and make it bold. The little recorder icon hovers near the text but I can't select the text. What should i do? \walter |
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Insert Date make Bold Macro
You could either make it bold before inserting the date or use the
arrow keys + [Shift] to make the selection. Also, there is a toolbar that you can customize at the top of the window where you could add a custom button. On May 9, 2:07 pm, "Walter_Slipperman" wrote: I don't know how to write macros but I do know how to record them and make icons for them that I put on the toolbar. Or I did back before Word 2007. The goal is to have an icon always accessable on the toolbar, not in a contextual menu, where I can select a macro that inserts the date in a particular format and makes it bold and sets spacing following it. I had this in Word 2003. When I try to use the record macro function to do the above operations I am stuck because while the macro recorder is running, after I have inserted the date in a selected format, I am not able to highlight the date text and make it bold. The little recorder icon hovers near the text but I can't select the text. What should i do? \walter |
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Insert Date make Bold Macro
Use the keyboard rather than the mouse for the finishing touches. To select
the inserted date, try Ctrl+****+Left arrow (if it's a date field, it'll take just on push of the left key, otherwise it might take several depending on the date format), press Ctrl+B, then use the right arrow to return the insertion point to the end of the inserted date, then turn the recorder off. In fact, I do the entire thing with the keyboard (Alt+Shift+D to insert the date field). The macro I get is: Selection.Fields.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Type:=wdFieldDate Selection.MoveLeft Unit:=wdWord, Count:=1, Extend:=wdExtend Selection.Font.Bold = wdToggle Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1 -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Walter_Slipperman" wrote in message ... I don't know how to write macros but I do know how to record them and make icons for them that I put on the toolbar. Or I did back before Word 2007. The goal is to have an icon always accessable on the toolbar, not in a contextual menu, where I can select a macro that inserts the date in a particular format and makes it bold and sets spacing following it. I had this in Word 2003. When I try to use the record macro function to do the above operations I am stuck because while the macro recorder is running, after I have inserted the date in a selected format, I am not able to highlight the date text and make it bold. The little recorder icon hovers near the text but I can't select the text. What should i do? \walter |
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Insert Date make Bold Macro
Okay. thanks guys. I've got it working:
Sub bold_date() ' ' bold_date Macro ' ' Selection.Fields.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Type:=wdFieldDate Selection.MoveLeft Unit:=wdWord, Count:=1, Extend:=wdExtend Selection.Font.Bold = wdToggle Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1 Selection.TypeParagraph Selection.Font.Bold = wdToggle End Sub Now how to do I put it in the small toolbar at the top. In the past I would make my own icon for it and drag it to the toolbar. \Walter |
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Insert Date make Bold Macro
Are you sure a date field is what you want here? A date field will update
each time you open the document. A CreateDate field would probably be more useful - or as you are using vba, simply insert the date as text eg Sub InsertUSFormatDate() With Selection .Font.Bold = True .InsertDateTime DateTimeFormat:="MMMM" & Chr(160) & _ "d," & Chr(160) & "yyyy", InsertAsField:=False .Font.Bold = False .TypeParagraph End With End Sub To add a macro to the QAT (Quick Access Toolbar), see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Walter_Slipperman wrote: Okay. thanks guys. I've got it working: Sub bold_date() ' ' bold_date Macro ' ' Selection.Fields.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Type:=wdFieldDate Selection.MoveLeft Unit:=wdWord, Count:=1, Extend:=wdExtend Selection.Font.Bold = wdToggle Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1 Selection.TypeParagraph Selection.Font.Bold = wdToggle End Sub Now how to do I put it in the small toolbar at the top. In the past I would make my own icon for it and drag it to the toolbar. \Walter |
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