Everybody knows "Click to Add Title" in the first page of the PowerPoint slide - the moment you click on it, the text disappears. This is very useful feature for creating templates. Does anybody know how to mimic this behavior? Is it a standard functionality or requires some VBA code? If so how to get this effect.
Yes, there are a few different methods to do this. As said, placeholders are one way, and if you go into the Open XML document (rename the ext. of your file to .zip), you can even change the words "Click to Add Title". Another way is to use text boxes and a macro to simulate this.
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I want to add a button in microsoft word that when I click it opens microsoft explorer to insert a file in the word page.
I already have the button but dont know what action should i do to implement that.
Any help?
You could, instead of adding a Button in your document, add the Insert File command to the QAT for that document.
This is a bit more subtle but works in non-macro enabled documents. In my opinion it is much easier to do.
You would want to draw your user's attention to it. Many places will not allow macros to run. It may run on Macs, which will not work with your ActiveX button. Here is my webpage on Modifying the QAT.
Hopefully a quick one
I am creating a form in Word with a Save macro that uses an ActiveX Label as a button. The label works fine as a button but I am having 2 issues:
when using the document in normal mode, the coding text in curly brackets for the label is still visible - see image
How do I get rid of this?
When printing the form, the button pushes the header text down a line:
You can see in the first picture that there is no gap here.
Thanks for your help.
(1) Press Alt+F9 to toggle off display of field codes (and make sure you're not in Design Mode).
(2) is impossible to be sure without having the document in front of me but...
Printing problems are notorious with ActiveX controls, which were designed for use with UserForms, not for the document surface. Your best bet for stability would be to use a one-row, two-column table with the button on the left and the address on the right.
Or use a MacroButton field code instead of an ActiveX control.
For the purposes of branding, our Word normal.dot template is updated via the login script. This pains me terribly, because I have a number of very useful VBA macros that I want to have access to. Specifically, I have two macros that I add to the Quick Access Toolbar in the title bar that I use all the time.
From what I understand, those macros can only be taken from the document itself or from the template it is based on.
What I am looking for, is a way to either:
Add a QAT button to a macro in another file somewhere.
Base all my documents on a new template (call it abnormal.dot) which in turn is based on normal.dot, so it can retain the macros even when normal.dot is overwritten.
Any other way of achieving my goal.
Any ideas?
You can add additional templates to your Word Application.
Go to Developer Tab on the Ribbon >> Templates section >> press Document Templates...
In new window on Template page you will find Add button on the right- add there some additional templates. This should help.
I'm trying to create a simple text field for WYSIWYG editing. However, I only want to allow certain types of formatting (e.g. Bold, Italic, Underline and a single heading type but no colors or different fonts.)
The issue is if I use an editor that can accept formatting, someone can create or copy formatted text in another program, then simply paste it into the text field and all that formatting goes with it, allowing things I'm not interested in, such as different fonts, colors, etc. I don't want to allow that.
At best, I want to automatically strip out any formatting that I don't support. At worst, I want to simply paste whatever as plain text making them have to reformat it. But in no case do I want to just dump the clipboard to the text area.
Any thoughts on how to do this?
I would recommend creating a new text field/text area class and creating an EditPaste menu handler that (a) does what you're looking for in terms of handling the clipboard's text and (b) returns true to prevent the default pasting from happening. This is safer than using the Key down events because the user might manually select paste from the edit menu.
You can access the text on the clipboard by creating a Clipboard object.
To subclass the textfield and intercept the paste menu command:
With your Project open, go to Project Menu > Add > Class
Select the new class in the project's tab and in the properties panel set the super to TextField
Double-click on the class to edit it
Click the "Add Menu Handler" mid-toolbar button in your class
Change the menu item name to "EditPaste". Put your code in before the "return true" and be sure to leave the return true in there.
Your code can then format and paste the text manually and override the default paste function.
Any command-V or control-V in that text field will cause that menu handler to fire. Any contextual menus would be added by you anyway since real basic does not create the default contextual menus, so you'd have control over that as well.
To add the text field to a window, just change the filter above the objects list to Project controls, and drag the class in from there.
You could intercept the paste yourself by intercepting it in the KeyDown events. Then, you could look to parse it yourself. That could be kind of tricky but I think that's about the only way you could do it.
It might just be easier to parse the resulting StyleRun after the paste and strip out formatting you don't want.
Alternately, you could look at the Formatted Text Control from True North Software and override the paste methods of the control (you get all the source) and just handle it yourself.
Either way, I think it will be a fair amount of work.
We have following requirement to be done via excel and VBA programming. Please check and let me know if it feasible to do so and if not what way would be best to do it.
There would be excel spreadsheet say excel 2007/2010 with 2 tabs.
1st tab contains normal excel data
In 2nd tab user can enter a particular value and then click on a button in same tab. Is it possibly to have a button in excel tab and can it raise events like windows/web applications?
Now if button can be kept in excel and it can raise button click event then on such an event we need to create xml files. Is it possible to create xml files adhering to schema using excel &/or VBA programming
You need to activate the developer tab (from backstage go to Options and check the visibility of this tab) to get access to normal windows controls, like buttons and drop-down lists etc. You can easily place those in Excel sheets and write event handlers: the controls support the full range of events, including OnClick, OnMouseEnter etc...
You can write custom text files directly from VBA, but you can't validate those. The usual way to do so is just to concatenate small XML blocks into a bigger file, so XML output is more like a normal text output. But it works fine and as long as you do not need to perform something really complicated it is also ok.
EDIT: You can easily add references to custom COM objects (.dll or .ocx) and use them directly in your VBA code. One very helpful suggestion (see the comment below) is to use the MS XML library.
To add a reference just open the code editor (Alt + F11) and then go to Options -> References. Most of the references you need will be already in the list and you just have to check them, but you can also add your own custom libraries by clicking on Browse.