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Total Commander is a versatile “Swiss army knife” utility that also has a folder compare/sync on board. It’s shareware with a 30-day trial.

That’s exactly what I did a few years back. But then the Helpdesk got a lot of call from users complaining about Word asking them to save the file, although they didn’t change anything… So I ended up adding a line:

ActiveDocument.Saved = True

Have you consulted the vendor of Meridio about this? Surely you are not the first and only to struggle with this problem…

Thanks macropod, I’ll pass it on.

I’m not at all familiar with Meridio, so I cannot assist you any further on this. The only advice is, train your users to open Word first. Good luck!

> Code near the bottom seems to do something

That’s wonderful. Thanks for the insight…

Small addition: this only works if you type this at the beginning of an empty paragraph. The result depends on the localized version (English, French, etc.) of Word.

Yes, but a little downwards on the page it says (I made it bold) :

“Make difficult illustrations easy, such as musical symbols, engineering diagrams like molecular formula or structural formula in chemistry, complex mathematical notations or equations, electrical and electronic circuits and so on.”

So I’m curious what the user has to comment on this. I’ll post back if he gets back to me.

(Edited by JanB on 12-Dec-06 08:26. added last paragraph)

You don’t state which Document Management Tool you use, so maybe this is not relevant, but here goes anyway.
We use Documentum and had some difficulties with the Word integration. One of the problems was that Documentum (and I think that goes for most if not any Document Management System) stores empty docs based on company templates in it’s database. When creating a “new” Word document from within Documentum, it doesn’t actually let Word just do that, but copies a stored empty doc to a specific folder and “tells” Word to open that. So the code for new documents is never fired and the code for (re)opened documents is fired instead…
So we ended up using a CustomDocumentProperty (CDP) to evaluate if a “new” document is opened from within Documentum or an existing one. If it’s “new” the code for new documents is fired and the value for that CDP is changed, so next time it’s opened it isn’t flagged as “new”.

If a user experiences problems with AutoExec not firing, which only occasionally is the case (we never found out why!), we recommend opening Word first, before starting Documentum. Documentum doesn’t close Word after each document it’s handling. Don’t know if that is default or is configured that way. I haven’t access to that info right now.

Thanks Hans, I’ll pass that to the user.
I found another add-in, Meanders Annotation for Microsoft Office, claiming that it can do the trick.
I’ll ask our user to report back the results of his tests. But that can take a while.

Yes Hans, that’s what I mean: structure formulas. Thanks. I’ll try some Googling with that phrase. Hopefully that turns up some Word add-in.

I have it too, every once in a while. In my case, it’s caused by my cell phone if I place it close to the PC.

Hi Doc,

The first tutorial you pointed to is also using Nero; the Burning Rom component of the suite. The second tutorial is a guide for using Nero Express, the Authoring component of the same Nero suite. Based on my experience with both I think Julia is better off with Nero Burning Rom.

I use this solution: put a dropdown containing “short” names in an blank line in the upper part of the document and make that hidden text. When the user Tabs out of the dropdown, an ExitMacro fires, which looks up the correct “long” name in an INI file and places that in a plain text FormField that is referenced to in other parts of the document.

Thanks Jeff. I’ll take your comments to heart when I play with CCleaner tonight.