RE: Got it sort of fixed (was Asking for help with Word VB scripting)

Subject: RE: Got it sort of fixed (was Asking for help with Word VB scripting)
From: Peter <pnewman1 -at- optonline -dot- net>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 18:45:39 -0400

Try a simple "if not" error trap in a loop.

A document programmer would rarely be paid anything close to the value of
the work. My experience has been that anybody who can type a simple merge
from a database thinks a document assembly coder is not worth much more than
minimum wage.
_____
Peter
All things being equal,
a fat person uses more soap
than a skinny person


> My thanks to everyone who responded. Thanks to you
> pointers I was able to solve that problem. I wound up
> using a WHILE loop instead of doing a count.
>
> Now my problem is that when I run the automation, it
> breaks on code fields that are now revealed to be
> malformed and which need to be rewritten and
> retested... :-( Dealing with VBA is like fighting
> the Hydra. I don't need any help with it, just more
> hours than are available.
>
> I'm getting to the point where I'd welcome a return to
> an actual *writing* job. I think I'm going to start
> calling myself a document programmer instead.

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