Herb Tyson…
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Herb: Nice to find you. Youve got some good stuff going here. I got a couple of questions for you, if you wouldn’t mind too much. I am currently in college finishing up my Associates Degree. I am a non traditional student as I have three grown children and grandchildren. I love dogs and think I still love computers but after what I have been through I am not sure. I found your site from a series of events leading up to me needing to put in a trail version of Word 2007 to finish assignments in the courses. Both of the courses are online and because of having my system hacked into and reprogrammed, Dell restored it back to factory settings last week. Unfortunately not so for using my version of Word 2003, as I was never given a product key and its gets real nasty here. So I am writing to you BECAUSE I have spent about a week trying to figure out how to use this Word 2007. Oh boy I hope that you can help me, I have til May 7th to do an unbelieveable amount of work. Can you kindly explain to me for one: How do I open Word 2007? I have about five sites stored in my documents for Word 2007, they are all the starting pages for information, tutorials and stuff. I usually just go Start, and click on an Icon or a download, but I dont know why I am having this kind of problem…where is the starting page? And two: How can I convert a Word 2003 document stored in my virtual course (showing up as :Imported Resource 330675200630 and the course and the exercise and .doc)? I tried to do it but when I click on it, my computer shows a dialog box on the left top that asks me if I want to open or remove the file, when I click on open, another box opens that says the doc name and asks me what I want to do with it, choices had Word 2003 or browse, I tried to browse but I can not locate the open copy of this Word 2007. Now I know I have it, a supervisor from Dell loaded Word 07 into my computer about a week ago and I have been on it and tried to start to learn it. I need some help. I had downloaded DocSmartz PDF converter myself, but I do not know how to connect them together to run the conversion. Do you know? I think I also have a Microsoft version of a PDF convertor in the computer too somewhere. So I need to be able to also (convert an open office doc format) into a Word 2007 and Word 2003, both ways I guess you’d say. I hope that this hasn’t been super confusing for you. I know I am super tired and gotto keep going to find this answer to start knocking out these assignments as fast as I can go. Thanks Belladurham I hope you GET THIS ONE! Peace Vicki
I’ll blog the answers as best I can, assuming I’ve understood the questions correctly.
Hiya – I tried to use this macro to turn off the auto date feature and I am not a VB expert so when I entered it into the macro area it will not work. I get an error message looking for an end sub.
Can you please provide instructions from the beginning (i.e. where to go to insert the macro, how to insert the macro, etc.) that would be very help as the auto date feature is driving me crazing.
Thanks ~ Eden
Turning off Date AutoComplete in Word 2007
In microsoft.public.word.docmanagement, someone complained that Word 2007 offers to autocomplete days, months, and dates. Someone responded by posting the following URL, http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA100997751033.aspx, which explains that it’s Word’s AutoComplete feature, and cannot be turned off. That would be fine–if it were actually true.
As it turns out, there actually is a way to turn this off in Word 2007, the statement to the contrary in that article notwithstanding. If you run the following macro, date AutoComplete should no longer occur:
Sub TurnOffAutoComplete()
Application.DisplayAutoCompleteTips = False
End Sub
Or, if you prefer a toggle, replace False with Not(Application.DisplayAutoCompleteTips).
The problem was that AutoText autocomplete was causing problems in the Office 2007 beta because of the way Building Blocks were implemented. So, autocomplete for AutoText was removed. In Word 2003 and earlier, the autocomplete checkbox control both dates AND AutoText. In Word 2007, they disabled autocomplete for AutoText, but left it enabled for Dates.
At the same time they removed the checkbox from the interface, they nonetheless left the command in the object model. Hence, you can use this command to turn off the parts of autocomplete that were NOT removed.
My issue is with footers and page numbering. I have a custom footer and I can insert the page number, but how do I include the number of pages? I tried selecting one from the horrible looking pre-done footer formats and it counted the number of pages in the whole document, not in the section and it put the page numbering in the wrong place. I tried to move it, but I could not. Is there a key stroke for inserting the number of pages? How do I get word 2007 to insert the number of pages for a section, in the location that I select?
The number of pages can be included in a footer by using the numpages field. While there are pre-fab footers and headers, most experienced Word users prefer to create their own. While in the footer, press Ctrl+F9 to insert field characters {}, and type numpages inside the braces; then press F9 to update the field so it displays the number of pages. For the number of pages in the section, use sectionpages instead of numpages. You can press Alt+F9 to toggle field code display on/off. For Page 1 of 7, this would display as:
Page { page } of { numpages }
or
Page { page } of { sectionpages }
So… your existing custom footer would have just { page }. Once modified, it would look like one of the above (perhaps). After creating a field manually, always remember to update it by pressing F9, otherwise, it will display as blank.
Good luck!