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Boy was I on the wrong track! Thanks Hans.

I’ve got dual monitors and have had no problems whatsoever, they act as one large desktop. Perhaps your video card is the problem. Could your system be trying to open Word in BOTH the monitors (as if each was a normal single monitor)?

You are a Wise, hands on kinda guy.
I’m going to try that out thanks.

I was using the following API call;

Public Declare Function SetTimer Lib “user32” ( _
ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal nIDEvent As Long, ByVal uElapse As Long, ByVal lpTimerFunc As Long) As Long

and the trigger event;
SetTimer 0, 0&, 100&, AddressOf mTimer

Becouse I don’t know how to get the windows handle from VBA I used 0 as the first parameter. The result was that I could create the timer and use it, but I couldn’t kill it when I was finished. OK if you only have one or two rogue timers running but eventually ya gotta reboot.

Have you looked at Microsoft OneNote? Its really at its best on a tablet PC but for jotting down ideas and then organising them it does beat a more structured product like Word.

Use outline numbering, make the style that triggers renumbering a level 1.

Controls(NumericIndex). is the easiest way to access a control becouse its a straight 1 based index.
First control is 1 etc.

Thanks for the reply Gray,

I’m hitting Google, and every other source that I can think of. Info from Mekon (& everywhere else for that matter is pretty thin). I was hoping to find code samples but I guess that was too much to hope for.

Anyway, you never know what you can find if you don’t look. Again thanks for your reply.

I’m not sure wether this is what you’re after or not but you can use the EQ field to displace/overwrite characters.
Judith M{ EQ S©}Name would give you a superscript and you can format this character separately.
Similarly { EQ o(

I’m not sure wether this is what you’re after or not but you can use the EQ field to displace/overwrite characters.
Judith M{ EQ S©}Name would give you a superscript and you can format this character separately.
Similarly { EQ o(

Granted that its probably better not to have code run by the document, but what about putting the code in the Document_Open procedure of the documents ThisDocument module?

Granted that its probably better not to have code run by the document, but what about putting the code in the Document_Open procedure of the documents ThisDocument module?

Zara,

That depends on the structure of the documents and how deep into VBA you’re willing to go. I’ve automated a similar problem but across
multiple variants of several templates. Things can get very complicated very quickly if you try automating everything, including stuff that
you should have left alone.

If the existing documents are based around paragraph styles and you can do everything you need using Find & Replace
then you could automate a lot of it by recording macros and connecting these to a toolbar.

If there’s no structure (ie everything is in Normal style with individual paragraphs having the font and size altered) then you
will be in for a fair amount of grief trying to automate the conversion unless your proficient in VBA. But at the least the process of
Attaching the doc to its new template and copying over the new styles can be done without too much drama.

Could you supply anymore info on just what you need to do? And which version/s of Word you are using.

Zara,

That depends on the structure of the documents and how deep into VBA you’re willing to go. I’ve automated a similar problem but across
multiple variants of several templates. Things can get very complicated very quickly if you try automating everything, including stuff that
you should have left alone.

If the existing documents are based around paragraph styles and you can do everything you need using Find & Replace
then you could automate a lot of it by recording macros and connecting these to a toolbar.

If there’s no structure (ie everything is in Normal style with individual paragraphs having the font and size altered) then you
will be in for a fair amount of grief trying to automate the conversion unless your proficient in VBA. But at the least the process of
Attaching the doc to its new template and copying over the new styles can be done without too much drama.

Could you supply anymore info on just what you need to do? And which version/s of Word you are using.

I guess this response falls into the whatever category.

The attachment is a Word doc that carries a module that ‘colours’ documents. The background of it was a conversion /translation utility that
cycled thro’ a docs paragraphs and changed the background color. This resulted in a starting document that was evenly coloured.

As the translator ran it again cycled through the doc para by para, a successful conversion reset the paras color to auto, errors where then represented
by other colors. The end result was a document where process used/failed/success where all clearly visible. This allowed users to carry out conversions
over a number of sessions.

And all without having to generate INI files to keep track of everything. Anyway, this module has a test sub that I hope is pretty self explanitory.
It can either shade paras that contain a specified style or Not, It then has another function that carries out some action based on a paras colour.