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About numbered-list/bulleted transitions in
Word documents, causing "...document may be corrupted"
messages in Word, Becca Price [mailto:becca_price -at- yahoo -dot- com]
asked:
>How does one figure out how many such transactions there are in
>a document without going in and counting them manually?
Here's what our IT guy said:
*********begin ********
Click on Tools>Macro>Visual Basic Editor.
Then select View>Immediate Window.
In that Window, type:
?activedocument.ListTemplates.count then hit
the enter key. As you type this line, it will
pop up the available terms, such as "listtemplates"
and "count".
After hitting enter, you will see the count.
********* end *********
Again, we're using mostly WinNT here, if that
makes a difference to anybody's results...
FWIW, the Word developers were probably right,
for the most part. Only a couple of our docs
had the problem, and those were Test Case
documents that get constantly revised and
passed around among department members,
and they had TONS of check-box bullets in 'em,
along with many, many, many numbered detailed steps.
Most people's documents will never approach the
default limit.... but apparently enough of them HAVE
that MS Tech Support came up with the workaround.
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