I could use some guidance on the following:
I am creating a Word form that generates barcodes with fieldcodes/bookmark text:
{DISPLAYBARCODE "{REF TXTUSN}" CODE128 \T \H 850 \R}
Basically I am creating a form with multiple options generate barcodes that contain the user's selections. The form then reaches some staff that transcribed it in the past. Now they just scan the barcode(s) and go on their merry way.
I have multiple checkbox formfields - hypothetically let us say the options are
Male
Female
And lets say that checkbox 1 has the bookmark name "checkMale" & checkbox 2 has bookmark name "checkFemale".
Now I would like for my DISPLAYBARCODE field to generate a barcode with the text value of "Male" or "Female" depending on the box checked.
My ability to manipulate these with VBA code is limited. If there is a way to do this without VBA please help me! If you believe VBA is the best option please set me on the right path. My google-fu has proved fruitless.
Thanks in advance,
J.
You cannot test a checkbox formfield's status via field coding - a macro would be required. A non-macro solution would be to use a dropdown formfield, which also has the advantage that only one item can be chosen. If, for example, your dropdown has the options:
Choose
Male
Female
you might use a DISPLAYBARCODE field coded as:
{DISPLAYBARCODE "{REF Dropdown1}" CODE128 \T \H 850 \R}
or:
{IF{REF Dropdown1}<> "Choose" {DISPLAYBARCODE "{REF Dropdown1}" CODE128 \T \H 850 \R}}
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I don't know anything about code. I work with e-learnings in Storyline 3. I sometimes localize these e-learnings and use the translation tool in Articulate which basically exports an MS Word file. Sometimes the target languages are longer and I need to decrease the font size by percentage for the whole document. Usually, there are at least 3 different font sizes that I need to decrease accordingly. I am wan to develop a macro that I will use for multiple documents.
I couldn't find a way to do this by percentage, but looks like the Shrink or Grow Methods will do the work! I found this code in the reference page but looks like it works only for a selected object. The issue is that the exported MS Word file is in a table with each text box in the storyline separated to a cell. When I select the whole table it does not work.
If Selection.Type = wdSelectionNormal Then
Selection.Font.Grow
Else
MsgBox "You need to select some text."
End If
Could you please help me and let me know if this would be possible for the whole document, or the selected table? It would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
It is unclear from your question whether the table in the Word document contains the actual text boxes or just the text they contain.
If it is just the text then Shrink may work. I tested this on a document with a single table containing only text:
ActiveDocument.Range.Font.Shrink
I wanted to know if there's shortcut to change a name like "tom" to "sally" in a region in Visual Studio 2013. I have about 40+ tom's and to change it manually takes forever. I'm using vb.net. Any help is much appreciated.
Other than using a find and replace (CTRL+H), you can use a text editor like sublime text:
https://www.sublimetext.com/
You can limit the replacement to a selected region of text. In the Find/Replace dialog there is a "Look In" drop down. If you have text selected, you will have the option "Selection" It's only visible when you have selected text which is confusing/misleading (why not just disable?).
You can then use replace all, and the replacement will be limited to the selection region.
If you collapse a code region you can select the entire region easily.
I'm trying to do something with a multiple selection. I wanna add some text before every selected paragraph but, when I select multiple discontinuous paragraphs, if I do Selection.Paragraphs.Count I always get "1".
How could I work with all paragraphs apart?
Example:
Paragraph1(Selected first)
Paragraph2
Paragraph3(Selected second)
What I got when I try to add some text at the beginning of these paragraphs:
Paragraph1
Paragraph2
TEXTParagraph3
What I really want to obtain:
TEXTParagraph1
Paragraph2
TEXTParagraph3
I'm working like this:
sub x()
dim p as paragraph
for each p in selection.paragraphs
p.range.insertbefore("TEXT")
next
End sub
Word simply cannot do what you'd like for it to do. Developers have wished for this since multiple selections were introduced in 2003 (I think it was, might have been version 2007). Word's object model simply does not support it.
If this is something you want to provide to the user to make life easier you'll need to give the tool a way to mark the paragraphs so your code can recognize them. You could provide a macro, for example, that assigns an incrementing bookmark name to each selection (the user selects, then runs your macro; repeat for each paragraph). Your code can then address each bookmark and perform the actions. To make this more user friendly you can assign the macro to a keyboard shortcut and/or a button in the Ribbon/QAT and/or the right-click menu.
I have Word Tables, and I don't find how to affect default values for certain columns...
When inserting a new line, I would like a certain column to have a certain drop-down list without user having to do it himself.
To illustrate my thoughts, here is a small image of what I'm looking for
I really don't find how to manipulate my table for it to ends up like this, so I would like to request your help.
When looking on the web for this, I only find information about table default style and no default Value.
So I would like to ask. Is this possible? If yes, how to do it?
I am looking for either a VBA code to set my column default value (which would be great), or even a way to do it in Word GUI at first. Or, obviously, an answer that would tell me that it is impossible to do in Word.
PS: the extremely easy equivalent in Excel of what i'm looking for:
Thanks in advance!
In the GUI:
Click the cell where you would like your dropdown.
In menu, switch to "Developer Tools"
Insert a Dropdown control ("Controls" are, the one in the middle)
In the ribbon, click "Design mode" (I have German Word so the actual name might differ), "Properties"
Now you can enter your options
Alternatively via VBA, I got this with the macro recorder; should give you a start:
[Cell].Range.ContentControls.Add (wdContentControlComboBox)
ActiveDocument.ToggleFormsDesign
Selection.ParentContentControl.DropdownListEntries.Clear
Selection.ParentContentControl.DropdownListEntries.Add Text:="Yes", Value _
:="Yes"
Selection.ParentContentControl.DropdownListEntries.Add Text:="No", Value:= _
"No"
I'd like to be able to create a page element which I can feed text and it will form itself into the preferred layout. For instance:
{MACRO DocumentIntro("Introduction to Business Studies", "FP015", "Teachers' Guide")}
with that as a field, the output should be a line, the first two strings a certain size and font, centred, another line and then the third string fonted, sized and centred.
I know that's sort of TeX-like and perhaps beyond the scope of VBA, but if anyone's got any idea how it might be possible, please tell!
EDIT:
Ok, if I put the required information into Keyword, as part of the document properties, with some kind of unique separator, then that gets that info in, and the info will be unique to each document. Next one puts a bookmark where the stuff is going to be displayed. Then one creates an AutoOpen macro that goes to that bookmark, pulls the relevants out of the keywords, and forms the text appropriately into the bookmark's .Selection.
Is that feasible?
You're certainly on the right track here for a coding solution. However, there is a simpler way with no code - this is the type of scenario that Content Controls in Word 2007 were built for and with Fields/Properties, you can bind to content controls (CC). These CC can hold styles (like centered, bold, etc.). No VBA required.
The very easiest thing to do is to pick 3 built-in document properties that you will always want these to be. For example, "Title" could be your first string, "Subject" your second string and "Keywords" your third. Then, just go to the Insert ribbon, Quick Parts, Document Properties and insert, place and format those how you like. Then go to Word's start button (the orb thingy) and then under Prepare choose Properties. Here you can type, for example "Introduction to Business Studies", into the Title box and then just deselect it somehow (like click in another box). The Content Control for Title will be filled in automatically with your text.
If you want to use this for multiple files, just create this file as a .dotx (after CC insertion/placement/formatting and before updating the Document Properties' text). Then every time all you'll have to do is set these three properties with each new file.
Well, yes, it did turn out to be feasible.
Sub autoopen()
Dim sKeywords As String
sKeywords = ActiveDocument.BuiltInDocumentProperties(4)
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("foo").Select
Selection.Text = sKeywords
End Sub
Okay, I have some filling out to do, but at least the guts of it are there.