Replies

Do you resave the document after changing the printer? And does it do the same thing upon reopening after printer redirect and saving? Shouldn’t have to do all that, but just wondered if it made a difference.

Andrew, I’m just getting up and running in Word 2002 so I’m still surfing the learning curve. However, I have seen the run away alias problem you referred to. It appeared to me that it happened everytime some direct formatting was placed on top of the style – thus the style name, plus char, etc. etc. Unfortunately, I don’t know a fix at this time. I handled it the same way you did and deleted them when I noticed them cropping up.

Thanks guys. You helped bunches!

I checked the Microsoft articles referenced in this thread – not sure that they help me. We did determine though, that if the attachment has a .doc extension, then it is referenced at the end of the document as <<<<>>>> However, it does not make that reference for a .wpd extension. So perhaps it is on the server side. We just got a new mail server.

No icon or anything that verifies that the message had attachments. Our users are having to manually type that info in to make sure it is documented so we can do a printout of the message and have verification there were attachments.

Have you checked your installations to make certain they have all the current service packs…? (both Word and your Windows OS)

If the numbering is incorporated into the styles, then place your cursor the first occurence of the first style in the series – in your case the Heading 1 style, then click Format>Style> and make certain you remain on the Heading 1 style, then click Modify>Format>Numbering then WITHOUT MOVING THE FOCUS OF THE NUMBERING click the Modify button – then you should be in a dialog box that has nine levels listed down the left side and samples of them listed in an area on the right side. You should see the word Section and you can change it to Task. It is important that you not lose the gray shaded code that inserts the number. If you plan to make any other changes to the outline numbering, you select that level inside the box on the left and make the desired changes.

One thing to note, even if you had desired to change Outline Level 2 / Heading 2 – you would have gone into editing mode by selecting Heading 1 at the style level and then chosing Level 2 once you got to the outline numbering customization dialog box. Sounds bizarre but if you don’t, your numbering schemes will unravel on you.

Thanks for the responses on this. What I actually have in this situation is firm templates that are downloaded to the local drive and then they show up under Named Tabs under File|New – simple enough. However, I have one user (a prominent somebody) that does not want to have to click different tabs to access different things so she wants her templates to show up under the General Tab instead of a Tab with her name on it. This could be a simple Copy and Paste but she does not want to be bogged down with that so one of our IT guys tried to write code to do it. For some reason the code that was written by our guy doesn’t work and copy the files from her named tab to the general tab – the code just doesn’t copy the files – and the code is in a .bat file which I don’t know how to write or edit. Anyway, I thought if I could get her personal templates to display in a drop down box from her toolbar that would resolve it and she wouldn’t have to click different tabs (even though Word defaults back to the last tab you accessed, she has another tab that she uses from so she doesn’t want to have to waste time clicking around between them). So, basically I’m trying to accomplish point and click access to her templates with minimal actions. I could hard code a drop down list with macros to go fire the templates from their place but that would require me to re-edit the code everytime she made a new template. Sheeesh! Pleasing important people can be very challenging.

You might want to make sure that all your Win2K and Word2K patches are up to date to insure a bug is not the problem.

We have encountered this problem many times in tables in our environment. What we have found is that the tables did not use styles and were heavily direct formatted – bold on and off, italics on and off, hard returns etc. and it was especially bad on any table that had an autonumbering column. We have somewhat salvaged poorly performing tables by selecting an entire column and applying a style that best fits the nature of the column – creating a style when necessary. Although Word boasts the ability to handle large tables, I have not been impressed – when pushed to play it often ends with sluggy tables. Our best remedy has been to take the info into Access because often times the reason for table structure was to be able to sort the info or categorize it is some way. If the info needed to report back into a Word format, we set up a merge document to do so. Anyway, good luck. I definitely feel for you – dealing with bad tables is not fun.

Sammy, that all pertained to Excel Workbooks; I need to delete a Word macro.

Found it. Thanks much!

Just tried your suggested code and I still get a debug error

I’ve read everything that was posted here but had no understanding as to how I was supposed to benefit from the information. Forgive me my shortcomings and limitations.

Here’s the code I’ve been attempting to use; however, I don’t know how to tie the default path onto the remainder of the path and template name.

temp = Options.DefaultFilePath (wdUserTemplatesPath)
ActiveDocument.CopyStylesFromTemplate Template = temp firm smartool.dot

I get an error on the second line because of the way I’m trying to append the “firmsmartool.dot” to the default path. Help.

Can you provide an example of this problem? I troubleshoot outline numbering problems often in our environment but need to see what you’re dealing with. When I adjust numbered styles, I ALWAYS go through Style|Format|Modify|Numbering|Customize from the FIRST level style in the series – NEVER through Format | Bullets & Numbering and NEVER adjust the styles from any style other than the first level style. I’d be happy to give it a look see if you can post a sample.