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• Word Tutorials

  • Bend Word to Your Will (written for Word for the Macintosh, this article has broad applicability to all versions of Word).
  • How to save yourself hours by using Outline View properly
  • What do all those funny marks, like the dots between the words in my document, and the square bullets in the left margin, mean?
  • Typographical Tips from Microsoft Publisher
  • Some of the most useful Word keyboard shortcuts
  • Word commands, and their descriptions, default shortcuts and menu assignments
  • How can I insert special characters, such as dingbats and accented letters, in my document?
  • Setting tabs
  • Ruler of all you survey: How to make the best use of Word's rulers
  • The strait and narrow – using columns
  • Working with sections
  • How can I automatically generate an index in Word?
  • How to control the page numbering in a Word document
  • Finding and replacing non-printing characters (such as paragraph marks), other special characters, and text formatting
  • Finding and replacing characters using wildcards
  • Is there life after “Reveal Codes”?
  • How Word differs from WordPerfect
  • The draw layer: a metaphysical space (and how to bring it back down to earth)
  • Cleaning up text pasted from the Web

• Merging External Data

  • How to create a Mail Merge
  • Creating a Mail Merge Data Source
  • Making your mail merge “intelligent” by using IF fields
  • Turning Word into a pseudo-database by using Mail Merge Query Options 
  • Using MacroButton fields

• Using Templates

  • Part I: Creating simple templates
  • Part II: Creating complex book and report templates

•  Troubleshooting

  • How can I recover a corrupt document or template – and why did it become corrupt?
  • How to recover a Master Document
  • Why Master Documents corrupt

• Using Tables

  • I have a “Name” column which I want to split into “FirstName”, “LastName” – how can I do it?

• Forms, Fields and Macro Programming

  • How to add pop-up lists to any Word document, so you can click your way through changes in seconds
  • Creating a macro with no programming experience using the recorder
  • Run a macro automatically when Word starts or quits
  • Run a macro automatically when a document is created, opened or closed
  • Getting to grips with VBA basics in 15 minutes
  • The art of defensive programming
  • Why variables should be declared properly
  • How to cut out repetition and write much less code, by using subroutines and functions that take arguments
  • When to use parentheses to enclose subroutine and function arguments
  • Early vs. Late Binding
  • Getting help with calling Word's built-in dialogs using VBA (and why doing so can be much more useful than you'd think)
  • How to create a Userform
  • Useful WordBasic commands that have no VBA equivalent
  • Working with bookmarks
  • Determine the index number of the current paragraph
  • How to customise the Control Toolbox in the VBA Editor
  • Intercepting events like Save and Print
  • Writing application event procedures

Links to articles on other sites

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TechTrax

Dian Chapman and many other volunteers provide a wide and growing selection of tutorials, articles and samples at the link below.  TechTrax is a website well worth exploring frequently.  And it's free!

Dian D Chapman

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Part I: Create professional looking forms in Word

Part II: Adding Automation to your Word forms

Part III: Learn more about VBA macros to automate your form

Part IV: Use custom dialog boxes in your Word forms

Part V: Linking your AutoForm to a database

Cindy Meister

Fields and mail merge

Part I: Automate Word Documents with Minimal Code.

How to use Word fields to automatically insert and update information in a document without using VBA or other programming code.

Mail Merge for Developers

Part I: Introduction and data integration

How to turn your word processor into a truly powerful office tool by integrating information and data from other sources into its documents.

Part II: Employing Word's field and formatting capabilities

Conditional formatting, index-type headings for lists, one-to-many relationships using the Database field

Microsoft

Understanding Styles

An excellent introduction to using styles properly; although it's part of the “Microsoft Word Legal User's Guide”, it's a “must read” for anyone who wants to get to grips with using styles.

Using Fields in Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word Legal User's Guide

Despite its title, the majority of this document is an invaluable read for any intermediate Word user seeking a better understanding of how to make Word work for them.

What is a COM Add-in? – Microsoft

Bill Coan

Bill Coan's Introductory article on XML

Information for programmers

Templates and Styles — Romke Soldaat

Table Styles. Apply intelligent style names to Word tables

Do-It-Yourself IntelliSense

Part I: Adding Your Own “Replace as You Type” Magic to Word

Office 2000: Deploying Templates and Application-Specific Add-ins

Not So Lightweight

The powerful string and path functions in Shlwapi.dll (little known but useful API functions)

COM Add-ins

Extending the Capabilities of O2K and the VBE

Ken Getz: Part I: Introducing COM Add-ins for Office 2000

Ken Getz: Part 2: Coding, Debugging, Deployment, etc.

Peter Vogel: COM Add-ins in Detail

.NET

Thomas Wagner: Microsoft's Initiative from a Developer's Point of View

VBA

Paul Litwin, Ken Getz, and Mike Gilbert: Using VBA Class Modules

Chris Rae's VBA Pages

Office 2000 Help files on-line

Word 2000

Excel 2000

Office 2000

Access 2000

Outlook 2000

PowerPoint 2000

PhotoDraw 2000

FrontPage 2000

Unicode

Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources

A tremendously useful and attractively designed site; go there to find out everything you ever wanted to know about Unicode and Unicode fonts