I have written a VBA script for automatically adding content controls for text between brackets (e.g. [Client Name]) that is working as intended. Unfortunately I haven't been able to create an equivalent that works for text in headers.
The following code would work if I wanted to apply a content control to the whole header, but I only want to use the bracketed text.
ActiveDocument.Sections(1).Headers(wdHeaderFooterPrimary).Range.Select
Selection.Range.ContentControls.Add (wdContentControlText)
Unfortunately I can't simply input a specific range here like "Range(2,5)". If there is a way to conditionally select text within a header this could also resolve the issue, as adding the Content Control works if I manually select the text within the header.
As a note I need to keep the styles and formatting consistent. The headers use multiple styles and can require multiple content controls. As such deleting the existing text, adding the content control, and reformatting would require getting the formatting for each line somehow (this caveat I couldn't find a workaround for).
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Using Google Sheets and working on a script to make exporting (downloading) a PDF copy of a single sheet much easier. The end goal is to emulate the Download as... PDF, but click of a button and it's done, without having to go to the menu. Also uses a custom file name (which includes the date and time).
The question...
When exporting a sheet using a script, is there a way to customize the content of the headers? I know when doing it manually, I can customize what appears in the headers and footers, but what about a script to change the top (or bottom) left/center/right areas when exporting a PDF via script? I know I can optionally enable a title (printtitle=true) or sheet name (sheetnames=true), but I can't find anything to permit me to customize what appears.
What I would like is to have a custom name/string for the top left and top center, then the date and time in the top right.
I am using CK editor on a text area. It is working fine but there is one problem and it is when I save content it removes some attributes and doesn't recognize all HTML tags. For example it is removing class attribute from ul li and also doesn't recognize many of HTML tags. Is there any way to modify CK editor so as to make to save everything. Removing it is not an option because CK editor is needed to make some customizations if a user is saving text. Thanks.
This should be the option you are searching for: http://docs.ckeditor.com/#%21/api/CKEDITOR.config-cfg-allowedContent
I couldn't get around this so I found another solution for this which I think might help others in similar situations. I now provide two options (using radio buttons) to users to save their data, through simple text box or through a fully CK editor loaded text box. If a user has already formatted text like containing lots of HTML tags, CSS classes, scripting etc they can simply select simple text box and it will save everything as it is without applying or removing anything. If they need to apply some formatting to simple text they can select loaded text box and format their text.
I want to create a document from an existing Word 2010 document and convert it to PDF using docx4j 3.1.0. I've built upon the sample in
https://github.com/plutext/docx4j/blob/master/src/samples/docx4j/org/docx4j/samples/ConvertOutPDF.java
The Word document already contains a header with text and an image that I do not modify in my processing. The resulting PDF document, however, doesn't contain the header.
Is this someting that is supposed to work? If yes: how can I find out what I am missing?
Yes, if you can see the header when you "save as PDF" in Word, then you should also see the header in docx4j's PDF output.
To have it fixed, we'll need to see the docx.
Just for the curious reader: the specific cause for the missing header turned out to be a wrong approach of setting page margins on the document. Instead of modifiying the existing settings via body.getSectPr().getPgMar() (or even simpler: setting it in the template right away), the code created new PageDimensions and set a new SectPtr on the body, thereby somehow overwriting or removing the header.
I am working with Microsoft Word 2010. I have a document that serves as a template for multiple users for a project I am working on. There are two parts of the document I want to force formatting when a user types:
Enter in an email address - I want the address to not automatically turn to a hyperlink. I want it to not turn to a hyperlink on just this part of the document. The rest of it I want hyperlinks to be enabled.
Enter in a URL without www in front (i.e. google.com), and not have the first letter automatically capitalize. I don't want to turn off capitalizing the first letter of a sentence in the whole document. Just in this part of the document.
Is this something that can be done? I tried messing with Fields but did not have any luck. I am familiar with VBA so if there is a way to do this with code, I am open to that too.
Both features you requires are implemented in Word using AutoCorrect/AutoFormat. They are not controlled by the style mechanism and consequently can't be selectively activated.
The mail address formatting can be controlled by styles, and you could prevent the switch to the Hyperlink style from being visible. You could also consider a macro that selectively changes the styles of the text as required in a post-processing pass through the documents - perhaps the next time the document is opened by a user for review.
I created an RDLC report (based on a stored procedure) that contains lists. I need to display data from one of those lists in the report footer across every page. However this data only shows in a list on the first page, so that is the only page on which it shows in the footer also. I’ve researched this but haven’t found much information. Does anyone have a solution for this?
Something you can try, don't know for sure if it will work. Create a formula that returns the data you want to display, then put the formula field on a text area in the footer.
I ended up placing a textbox in the second page area, setting the text color to white and sending it to the back. If I hid the textbox (or table - I tried that too), the footer object could not reference it. So, setting the text color to white and placing it behind another object worked. It seems like this is a kludgy way to do a simple report operation but is apparently necessary.