Word Hacks - Tips & Tools For Taming Your Text (2004)

How This Book Is Organized

The book is divided into several chapters, organized by subject:

Chapter 1

This chapter offers a couple of introductory hacks to bring you up to speed on several of the topics and techniques used throughout the rest of the book, such as modifying menus and toolbars and creating and editing VBA macros.

Chapter 2

This chapter includes hacks for improving the way you interact with Word. Among other things, it shows you how to gain more control over view and options settings, as well as how to add custom images to toolbar buttons.


Chapter 3

This chapter explores Word's formatting features, including hacks on creating better image borders and custom watermarks. It also shows you how to create footnotes for tables.


Chapter 4

From advanced wildcard searching to automatic cross-referencing, the hacks in this chapter are all about editing efficiently. Several hacks in this chapter show you how to add features not built into Word, such as the ability to remove all hyperlinks or bookmarks in a document at once.


Chapter 5

This chapter includes hacks that show you how to take advantage of two of Word's most powerful features, and even how to use Word outlines to automatically generate attractive organizational charts.


Chapter 6

This chapter tackles some of Word's most aggravating annoyances, such as document bloat and corrupt registry data, and also shows you a few ways to hack your way around some of Word's built-in limitations.


Chapter 7

The hacks in this chapter offer some intermediate and advanced techniques for improving macro performance. In addition, there are hacks on moving beyond VBA basics and on doing things such as adding a progress bar to a macro and creating macros that automatically respond to application events.


Chapter 8

The hacks in this chapter show you how to take full advantage of Word's fields, which can be intimidating but offer powerful control over document content. Among other things, this chapter shows you how to easily add an interactive calendar to a form, perform advanced date calculations automatically, and sequentially number documents.

Chapter 9

In true hacking spirit, this chapter explores how to cajole and contort Word into doing things no word processor was meant to do, such as performing full system backups (with reporting) and emulating the popular Unix text editor Emacs. In addition, there are hacks on controlling Word from other Office applications and from three of the most popular scripting languages (Perl, Python, and Ruby), along with a hack on how to use VBScript's powerful regular expression functions from within Word.


Chapter 10, Word 2003 XML Hacks

This chapter shows you how important XML support is to Word 2003. There are several hacks on using XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) to create, process, and edit Word documents, and even a hack on how to add a Google search feature to the Word 2003 Task Pane.
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