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Or maybe post 278186 by Phil Rabichow?

Or maybe post 278186 by Phil Rabichow?

Could the solution lie in the Tools | Options | Compatibility option titled “Suppress extra line spacing at Top of Page” referred to in post 127655 or your old post 127386 ?

Could the solution lie in the Tools | Options | Compatibility option titled “Suppress extra line spacing at Top of Page” referred to in post 127655 or your old post 127386 ?

No, I do not expect a reply from the original poster. And I am not discouraged by your response. I only expect that loungers who read posts henceforth will respond if they find something new in what I present. I am posting today after several months (probably over a year) so several threads look new to me.

The way I use the Lounge is to look at whether there is a thread which either raises a new issue or resolves any issue to which I had no satisfactory solution. If in the meanwhile I have found a solution, I present it for common benefit. I therefore tend not to create new threads, but to extend existing ones, so that loungers can benefit from past thinking on the same topic. You will notice that several of my posts have been to threads which have not had solutions, or where I think I have a fresh approach to provide.

For example, a little earlier, I replied to a 2-yr old thread on AutoText in Documents (2002) which suggested a fresh approach to the same problem, and I do not expect the poster to reply.

About 2 years back, I had posted (could not find that post) on the Lounge a description of a solution which allows service providers the freedom to generate the index at any stage of production, as long as all paragraphs are numbered; and new paragraphs inserted get further numbers. This is not an automatic Index generator, and needs input of professional indexers. It is not intended to be a substitute for the work of professional indexers.

The solution converts paragraph nos to page nos after the pagination has been frozen, and thereafter generates the index with the page nos., which allows the indexer to work without the time pressure usually associated with the indexing job (say after the first proof stage). Of course, in changing para nos to page nos, a certain amount of manual work is required, but the labour required is not smart labour.

There was sophistication in the solution in that the index entries could be upto 3 levels, and the solution allowed use of Greek and other special characters (by use of SGML entities) which might optionally be used to set the order in which the entries appear in the final index. This approach has worked flawlessly for an index comprising nearly 61,000 entries for an encyclopaedic reference work.

Could this be relevant to your needs?

The solution involves building the Index entries in Excel and generating the actual index in Word.

I believe I have got a really elegant solution to this problem. Hence, better late than never, I thought.

There is a little-known “camera” function icon in Excel which directly converts any selected cell or cells into an MS-Office Picture object by a single click on an icon, which can then be pasted anywhere — into a Word document, for example. So, for example, I can get 60-degree sloped text in a cell in Excel converted to a Picture object.

The camera icon can be dragged onto any toolbar by going to Tools|Customise|Commands (Tab) and scrolling under “Tools” Menu to the Camera Icon and Function. For some strange reason, this function is not available in Word.

This applies to Office 2000 and over.

I believe I have got a really elegant solution to this problem. Hence, better late than never, I thought.

There is a little-known “camera” function icon in Excel which directly converts any selected cell or cells into an MS-Office Picture object by a single click on an icon, which can then be pasted anywhere — into a Word document, for example. So, for example, I can get 60-degree sloped text in a cell in Excel converted to a Picture object.

The camera icon can be dragged onto any toolbar by going to Tools|Customise|Commands (Tab) and scrolling under “Tools” Menu to the Camera Icon and Function. For some strange reason, this function is not available in Word.

This applies to Office 2000 and over.

Here’s an example of the same thing, done using the “camera” icon in Excel.

Here’s an example of the same thing, done using the “camera” icon in Excel.

Another very late updation to the same problem:

There is a little-known “camera” function icon in Excel which directly converts any selected cell or cells into an MS-Office Picture object by a single click on an icon, which can then be pasted anywhere — into a Word document, for example. So, for example, I can get 60-degree sloped text in a cell in Excel converted to a Picture object.

The camera icon can be dragged onto any toolbar by going to Tools|Customise|Commands (Tab) and scrolling under “Tools” Menu to the Camera Icon and Function. For some strange reason, this function is not available in Word.

This applies to Word 2000.

Another very late updation to the same problem:

There is a little-known “camera” function icon in Excel which directly converts any selected cell or cells into an MS-Office Picture object by a single click on an icon, which can then be pasted anywhere — into a Word document, for example. So, for example, I can get 60-degree sloped text in a cell in Excel converted to a Picture object.

The camera icon can be dragged onto any toolbar by going to Tools|Customise|Commands (Tab) and scrolling under “Tools” Menu to the Camera Icon and Function. For some strange reason, this function is not available in Word.

This applies to Word 2000.

Over a year late in this post, but has anybody tried the {PRIVATE} field to hold tagged text with any kind of formatting characteristics?

I have used this extensively to convert a parsed XML file into a decently formatted Word file with zillions of embedded {Private} fields. Including tabular matter, footnotes, endnotes, special characters beyond the ASCII character set (which necessitates use of Unicode, and hence eliminates Word 97 for the solution). And what’s more, a single macro then allows me to “round-trip” and generate a completely valid XML file as output. However, this means writing a separate set of macros (XML2Word & Word2XML) for each DTD. See a more detailed description of this case study here.

Over a year late in this post, but has anybody tried the {PRIVATE} field to hold tagged text with any kind of formatting characteristics?

I have used this extensively to convert a parsed XML file into a decently formatted Word file with zillions of embedded {Private} fields. Including tabular matter, footnotes, endnotes, special characters beyond the ASCII character set (which necessitates use of Unicode, and hence eliminates Word 97 for the solution). And what’s more, a single macro then allows me to “round-trip” and generate a completely valid XML file as output. However, this means writing a separate set of macros (XML2Word & Word2XML) for each DTD. See a more detailed description of this case study here.