Word Macros

Action

Add Brackets

Puts selection in round brackets ()

Add Quotes

Puts selection in quote marks

Add Tags

Puts selection in html tags <>

In your printed documentation, you may have something like Figure 1 which is fine for anyone viewing the document on a PC. They can click the hyperlink and see Program Access. But what about someone reading hard copy? It's not much use to them is it? They have to go to the Table of Contents and locate "Program Access".

Figure 1

Now thanks to HansV, a long term supporter of Woody's Lounge, the macro below will amend your document so that it reads as shown in Figure 2. The macro itself is shown in Figure 3.

Figure 2

Figure 3

The lines r.InsertAfter allow you to define the text surrounding the page number to whatever you want. This requires some thought as you need to find a single string of text that will always work. The string works for my documents regardless of whether the hyperlink is followed by a full stop (period) or a space. If the hyperlink is already followed by something in brackets, then you will end up with text as in Figure 4.

Figure 4

You will need to run the macro a few times and check the results to see what text works best for you.

The hyperlink is left working for the benefit of anyone viewing the Word document on their PC. Also removing it would destroy the context of your documents. Imagine the examples shown without the hyperlinks being left in place.

The usual warning, backup your document before you run the macro.

Hans. Many thanks from the technical authoring world for this macro.

Fill Blank Rows

With cursor in a cell with text, the macro copies text to each blank cell below until it finds another value. That value is then copied and the process repeats.

Format Tables

Seven macros

1. Sets all rows to "Allow row to break across pages = false"
2. Applies required properties to a table. User given option as to whether each table found is to be formatted or skipped. User can also choose to start from current position or the start of the document.
3. The same as (2) except the user has no choice as to where it starts. It always runs from the start of the document.
4. The same as (2) except it only works on the next table after the start point.
5. Applies required properties to all tables in the document without giving user option to include or exclude.
6. Scrolls through tables in the document.
7. Selects the first row of each table and applies the Heading setting.

The above macros have clearly marked sections that apply the formatting so that you can substitute what you want in place of what I use.

Printing

Prints current page.

Sometimes you will see a heading style one line down from the top of the page when you generate printed output from RoboHelp. The problem is described in Printing. Run this macro to remove just those blank lines.

Remove Bookmarks

Removes all bookmarks from a document. Use with care.

Remove Space

Two macros

1. Removes any space before the paragraph.
2. Removes any space after the paragraph.

Style Changer

This zip file also contain a frm file. See the readme text file.

Run the Style Changer macro to display the Style Changer dialog.

The dialog doesn't do anything more than the standard Find and Replace, it just makes it a lot quicker.

Word's Find and Replace function requires ten clicks before the operation starts whereas this requires one click to display the dialog box, then select the two styles and one more click to start the operation.

Also Word's function requires you to select from the list or you can type just the first letter of the style. If that does not find the style, you have to scroll down to locate it. This method allows you to keep typing the style name until it is found.