Re: Successful Manipulation of Word Files

[Bruce / Sarah Lybbert <sarah -at- SPOTS -dot- AB -dot- CA>]

Graham :

Do you still have Ben's email addres as I requier the same macro. Thanks in
advance.

                                Bruce Lybbert

At 17:42 97/09/09 -0700, Graham Tillotson wrote:
>Thanks to all who contributed to my posting on
>analyzing Word styles (especially Ben for his macro).
>
>My interest started with the need to analyze styles used in
>Folio infobases, and I found that if you export infobase
>content to an RTF document and then analyze it with the
>process below, all is fine in the world.
>
>For those who are interested, it is a rather easy process to:
>
>1. generate a new document that lists all styles in use in
>the order they appear (Ben's macro)
>
>2. tweak the new file so that you can convert text to table
>and get a listing of style names on the left and descriptions
>on the right
>
>3. paste append the Word table into an Access table with
>columns for "Style" and "Definition"
>
>Once in Access, you can run queries (Make Table, Find Unmatched, etc.)
>to make master (distinct) style tables, find low-use styles, determine
>usage frequency, and archive styles for later use (using OLE
>functionality
>to store the Word template in the database). If you run the macro on
>multiple
>Word files, you can import the style list tables into Access tables and
>perform a
>cross-file analysis.
>
>Graham Tillotson
>graham -at- megsinet -dot- net
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