MS Word Macros

Word 97 / 2000

Here is a set of many useful macros. Similar macros are placed in groups that are listed alphabetically. Each group of macros is embedded in a Word template (*.dot). To be ready for use, a template-document must be copied to the Office folder STARTUP.

It's a good idea downright to go for the Macro-Gallery that comprises all macros in one. It also contains a complete Description of all macros, which you should copy first in any case.

• The macro is executed just one time. You will find the newly created bars using menu View / Icon - bars.

• AutoNew in this version 1. activates automatic hyphenation, 2. activates zoom = pagewidth, 3. sets footer margin to 1,5 cm (necessary for some printers), 4. establishes footer including user name, document name and page numbers.
  
• AutoExec opens the document last used and places the cursor to the postion last modified.
  
• AutoOpen same as before for any document that is opened again.
  

• Macro View shows the contents of AutoText collection
  
• Macro Add copies selected text (or graph) to AutoText collection
  
• Macro Delete deletes the entire AutoText collection
  
• Macro Insert pastes complete AutoText collection to cursor position
  

• This macro actually first cuts and then reloads a document to the same place. Up to 50% or more space may be gained, especially after many changes have been made. The amount of saved space is shown. (Screenshot)
  
  

• display actual User:   (Screenshot)
• display actual Pathname:   (Screenshot)
• display ANSI-Codes of preveously selected character(s).
• display Unicode of preveously selected character:   (Screenshot)
• display number of Characters, Words, Sentences and many other items:   (Screenshot)

• Display extensive Document-Statistics (from Microsoft's Makro80.dot):   (Screenshot)

• Microsoft Word supports searches for each and every element a document may possibly have: strings, footers, comments etc., but there is no way to determine the number of strings, footers, comments etc. that were found.
  
  Here is a macro that finds the number of all sorts of document elements. As ther are certain differnces a special version for Word 2000 is available too. Online help is included to show the entire syntax and examples with a click.    (Screenshot)    

• Here is a special sort of a Listing. Many a Word user (such as I) may have looked out for this feature quite a while. One should have expected it from a strong tool such as MS-Word. The author has done an great job! Selected Folders (including sub-folders, if desired) will be listed. Filesize, date of last change and other details may also be included. ^© Horst Ritter (Screenshot)

• All installed Fonts are listed with their names and samples. This macro is more powerful than any Fontview program. ^©Gerhard Frey

• A nice dialog to create a Customized Footer or Header including user name, date, document- / pathname, page numbers etc.;
• Erase Footers and/or Headers.
• Add Brackets to Footnotes.

• List ANSI-Table und Create new ANSI-Table. - These two macros belong closely together. The first one creates a table of 256 ANSI-codes, as they are entered from the keyboard. It must be executed first (ANSI-Table). With the second macro you can change the font to list a different table. - (Screenshot)
• List all AutoText-Entries
• List all actual Word-Commands
• List all actual Word-Shortcuts

• Here are all the macros in one. Just unzip them to the STARTUP folder and follow the few instructions of the README file. There is also a macro that will add a new menu to your menu bar. It contains the most used macros together with their shortcuts.
  

• This dialog enables you to establish two, three, four or five numbered columns either in the header or in the footer. (Screenshot)
  

• Here is a little application consisting of several macros. They do not care for correct comma rules or the like, but instead help to create a clean typeface. They track down blemishes such as unpaired quotation marks, double commas and many other incompatible "neighbors". - HTML-Help is included. (Screenshot1) - (Screenshot2)

• The macro Tab_Auto quickly creates a clean nice table, after you have defined the number of rows and columns.
• The macro Tab_Info shows the position of the cursor within a table. This is particularly useful when you want to employ formulas and must know addresses of cells (C7 or K22).

• To write Proper Fractions with horizontal lines, execute macro Frac1, enter the numerator before and the denominator; then execute Frac2, done! The fractions are edited in a somewhat smaller font.
• Here are several macros dealing with German Umlauts.

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