RE: Word _Please Help

["Steve Hudson" <cruddy -at- optushome -dot- com -dot- au>]

Word rocks - all you need is to study the entrails of few goats, sprinle a
bit of hemlock around your CPU and dance backwards like Giner Rogers.

I use it coz its the most flexible, powerful WP tool I can get my grubby lil
techwriter hands on - and yes - I have used many many word processors -
starting with emacs, bookmanager, ISPF before getting such luxuries like
GUI's and Pagemaker, Ventura, Scribble, Excellence, Word Perfect, Lotus
Notes and even (drum-roll) FLAMEMAKER. <ROFLs hard as he invokes the name of
a major demon>

You are down in the dumps re word's lists. Well paint me purple and call me
a bunyip, fair dinkum. You aint the first, you aint the last.

Lists, shmists. The first problem folks make is to assume lists get attached
to styles. Buzz. Wrong. Styles get attached to lists. So attach multiple
styles to the same B&N (Bullets & Numbering) dialog entry and you are in a
fast car headed for the cliff.

Second big mistake is to try and control the indenting from the style.
Nope - no good. The B&N settings override this.

FWIW, I use outline styles for the lot. That way you 'indent' by using the
tab and shift-tab combos like automagically. The 'outline' body text has no
number style and no leading tab. The 'outline' List Number is just simple 1.
lists indented at different levels. The 'outline' Bullets have a number
style of bullet and the code given.

Now, for advanced fang-danglerly, you use VBA to attach your styles to
ListTemplates in the Document - not the B&N ListGallery. NOW we are starting
to get somewhere. The only headache left is when you re-attach a template,
muck with styles or insert the doc via any # of means into another.

You will get lists like this: 1,2,3,4   1,5,6,7   1,8,9,10

All you have to do is run this:

Public Sub FixListRestarting()
'Author Steve Hudson
Dim LP As Paragraph
If ActiveDocument.ListParagraphs.Count = 0 Then Exit Sub
For Each LP In ActiveDocument.ListParagraphs
   With LP.Range.ListFormat
      If .ListType <> wdListBullet And .ListValue = 1 And .ListLevelNumber =
1 Then
         LP.Style = ActiveDocument.Styles(LP.Style)
         .ApplyListTemplate .ListTemplate, False
      End If
   End With
Next
End Sub


As for adding hyperlinks? Don't forget for intradocument links use
cross-references and bookmarks - hyperlinks are to external documents and
they are only as fiddly as they have to be. I mean, whats the point of
having a link without setting the destination?

TOC's? 99/100 you use std heading styles (Heading 1,2,3 etc) and just
dumb-like insert the std TOC?

Page numbers - use insert > field > pagenum. Graphics, use linked inline.

Lastly, if everything goes weird (Maggie, how's this go again ... ummm) cut
everything but the last paragraph mark in each section and paste it into a
new document to massively reduce the amount of corruption you are carrying
around? Yeah - something like that.

Armed with that, and this list - striden ze forth wid much gusto and
terribubble spelling.

Ze Heretic


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