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Pam & Andrew.

Thank you again. I will ask a user for one of the affected docs at work tomorrow morning and post it. I will also see if I can explain the workaround in a simple way, or make a macro...

Andrew,

The macro that attaches the global, for stye updating purposes, resides in the global. The global therefore has to be added first. So the sequence is: Word opens, pulls in the Global from...

Several users have their the list style "Article/Section" applied to their heading styles. I see that Microsoft describes how this can happen, calling it a "harmless little bug."
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Andrew,

Thanks for these insights and the code snippet. I've been distracted, struggling with another issue (see my new thread), hence my delayed response.

I am going to poll the Word users in...

Thank you both!

Andrew, my concern has been to avoid changed/corrupted templates and styles breeding like rabbits in the brush. I've been through that, with year-old problems suddenly reappearing...

Pam

Thank you for staying with this.

My custom global does indeed provide macros and a custom ribbon, and I'd like to add building blocks to it as well, so my whole strategy depends on Word...

Pam

What can I say... it was Friday afternoon...:blush: Henceforth I will read ALL the material someone links me to. Thank you for patience!

I have been experimenting with this situation and so...

Pam

I looked at the article you linked to. The file that remains doesn't have a .tmp extension, so I guess I should not have called it a temp file.

The file I have a problem with drops the...

Thanks Kim,

I've set the macro to use Word.Options.DefaultFilePath(wdUserTemplatesPath) & "\" & "normal.dotm". I've sent some samples out to users to see if there are more problems.

I have a...

I have all my styles in a global template on a server, and copy these styles to active docs by first attaching the global template to the active doc, then either reattaching the original template or...

Thank you Andrew.

One concern I have is writing the macro's filepath to Normal so that every user's Word will find its own local Normal. I am assuming/hoping that Word will know this whereabouts...

I'm setting up a Global template, styles, and Workgroup Templates where I work.

Recently someone attempted to open a doc, based on one of my templates, while not connected to our network. After he...

Got it to work, though in a puzzling way:

The sub I was calling from a sub in the class module was "Private". When I made private sub into a normal sub, the class module was able to call it.
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John

Thanks for your reply. Let me give some details so you will understand what I'm doing.

I need certain functions performed when a new or existing doc is opened, even if Word is already...

How can I run a sub, located in class module, from a "normal" module? Is this even technically possible? I keep getting compile errors...

I have tried moving the sub to the "normal" module and...

Andrew

That fixed it, thank you.

aaaah, I was a bit hasty there...

By recording a macro I found that the code for the No-Width Optional Break symbol is 8204. I attempted to insert that into my macro-generated string by writing
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BigMac56 & Andrew

Thank you. The thing is that the slashes are for human eyeballs, so replacing them won't work.

However... I could combine the slash with the NWOB! I just googled that thought...

Yes, Word wraps dependent on where the margins are - at the margin, regardless of the content it is wrapping.

I want to use VBA to insert a line break so that I can control where in the text the...

How can I get VBA to determine the point where Word will place a line break in a string? I want to control where the line breaks, by finding the last instance of a certain character before Word’s...

nevermind...

Figured it out:

With style etc
CurrentLanguage = Languages(Selection.LanguageID)

Paul

I was occupied with another project, and neglected to thank you for this code!

I want to use a macro to check the language settings for styles. Using style.languageID returns a number. :huh:

I want the NAME of the language.

I have found this code in stackoverflow:...

Eric,

Filtering for BuiltIn will limit the scope of the macro to your custom styles. On the net I found a good example of determining an "actual" in-use status on Greg Maxey's site:...

I just noticed that your name is Paul, so henceforth

Paul:

Thanks for the code. That cracked it! I have things working nicely now. The loop I posted was just to show the principle. In actual...