Become a power user with Word Hacks! Insider tips, tools, tricks, and hacks help you accomplish your pressing tasks, address your frequent annoyances, and solve even your most complex problems. The book examines Word's advanced (and often hidden) features and delivers clever, time-saving hacks on taming document bloat, customization, complex search and replace, tables and comments, XML, and even using Google without leaving Word! Full Description
As one of the applications in Microsoft Office, Word is the dominant word-processing program for both Windows and Mac users. Millions of people around the globe use it. But many, if not most, of them barely skim the surface of what is possible with Microsoft Word. Seduced by the application's supposed simplicity, they settle for just what's obvious--even if it doesn't satisfy their wants and needs. They may curse the wretched Bullets and Numbering buttons multiple times a day or take hours to change the font size of every heading in a lengthy report, yet they're reluctant to dig deeper to take advantage of Word's immense capabilities and limitless customization tools.
Let Word Hacks be your shovel. Let it carve your way into Word and make this most popular and powerful application do precisely what you want it to do. Filled with insider tips, tools, tricks, and hacks, this book will turn you into the power user you always wanted to be. Far beyond a tutorial, Word Hacks assumes you have a solid working knowledge of the application and focuses on showing you exactly how to accomplish your pressing tasks, address your frequent annoyances, and solve even your most complex problems.
Author Andrew Savikas examines Word's advanced (and often hidden) features and delivers clever, time-saving hacks on taming document bloat, customization, complex search and replace, Tables of Contents and indexes, importing and exporting files, tables and comments, and even using Google as a dictionary! With him as your guide, you'll soon be understanding--and hacking--Word in ways you never thought possible.
Covering Word 2000, 2002 and Word 2003, Word Hacks exposes the inner workings of Word and releases your inner hacker; with it, you will be equipped take advantage of the application s staggering array of advanced features that were once found only in page layout programs and graphics software and turning Word into your personal productivity powerhouse.
Table of Contents
Credits
Preface
Chapter 1. Word Under the Hood
1. Tweak the Interface
2. Macros 101: A Crash Course
Chapter 2. The Word Workspace
3. Hack Your Shortcut Menus
4. Create Custom Views
5. Revert to Saved
6. Quickly Change Your File > Open Path
7. Report and Review Your Options
8. Force Internet Explorer to Hand Off Word Documents
9. Tweak the New Document Task Pane
10. Browse All Button Images
11. Create a Custom Button Image
12. Hack the Office Assistant
13. Build a Better MRU
Chapter 3. Formatting, Printing, and Table Hacks
14. Insert Placeholder Text
15. Sample Your System Fonts
16. Tab Me to Your Leader
17. Make Styles More Manageable with Aliases
18. Make a Simple Bar Graph
19. Put Footnotes in Tables
20. Repeat a Section Heading Across Pages
21. Simplify Borders Around Imported Images
22. Make More Flexible Captions
23. Make PDFs Without Acrobat
24. Create a Custom Text Watermark
25. Include Only Part of a Heading in a TOC
26. Put Crop Marks on a Page
Chapter 4. Editing Power Tools
27. Crunch Numbers Quickly in Word
28. Unlink Every Hyperlink
29. Exclude Text from Find and Replace
30. Use Character Codes to Find or Insert Special Characters
31. Find/Replace in Multiple Files
32. Find and Replace Without Find and Replace
33. Quickly Create a Custom Dictionary
34. Create a Dictionary Exclusion List
35. Disable Overtype Permanently
36. Delete All Comments in a Document
37. Delete All Bookmarks in a Document
38. Turn Comments into Regular Text
39. Apply Context-Sensitive Formatting
40. Send a Document as a Plain-Text Outlook Email
41. Swap Revision Authors
42. Corral Basic Bullets and Numbering
43. Cross-Reference Automatically
44. Hack More Flexible Cross-Referencing
Chapter 5. Templates and Outlines
45. Create an Outline-Only Copy of a Document
46. Build a Better Outline
47. Use an Outline to Build an Org Chart
48. Attach the Same Template to Multiple Files
49. Quickly Attach a Workgroup Template
50. Manage Macros with Templates
Chapter 6. Housekeeping
51. Troubleshoot Common Word Problems
52. Control Word Startup
53. Sidestep Formatting Restrictions
54. Rename Built-in Styles
55. Clean Out Linked 'Char' Styles
56. Reduce Document Bloat by Deleting Old List Templates
Chapter 7. Macro Hacks
57. Get Simple User Input for a Macro
58. Keep the Macros Dialog Box Tidy
59. Do Something to Every File in a Directory
60. Run Macros Automatically
61. Intercept Word Commands
62. Keep Custom Menus Under Control
63. Use Word Dialogs in a Macro
64. Optimize Your VBA Code
65. Show Progress from VBA
66. Hack Documents with For Each Loops
67. Store Settings and Data in .ini Files
68. Generate Random Numbers
69. Hack with Application Events
Chapter 8. Forms and Fields
70. Fake (and Easy) Fill-in Forms
71. Hack DATE Fields
72. Perform Calculations with Formula Fields
73. Format Numeric Field Results
74. Use Fields for Heavy-Duty Calculations
75. Include an Interactive Calendar in Your Forms
76. Use Custom Shortcut Menus to Make Frequent Selections
77. Number Documents Sequentially
78. Cross-Reference Among Documents
79. Convert Field Codes to Text and Back Again
Chapter 9. Advanced Word Hacks
80. Emulate Emacs with VBacs
81. Use Word as a Windows Backup Utility
82. Perform Power Text Searches with Regular Expressions
83. Show a Directory Structure as a Word Outline
84. Automate Word from Other Applications
85. Hack Word from Python
86. Hack Word from Perl
87. Hack Word from Ruby
88. Use Python from Word
89. Use Perl from Word
Chapter 10. Word 2003 XML Hacks
90. Get a Command-Line XML Processor
91. Create a Word Document in Notepad
92. Get the XML Toolbox
93. Use IE to Inspect WordprocessingML Documents
94. Transforming XML into a Word Document
95. Batch-Process Word Documents with XSLT
96. Standardize Documents with XSLT
97. Remove Direct Formatting with XSLT
98. Remove Linked 'Char' Styles with XSLT
99. Use Google from Your Macros
100. Google Without Leaving Word
Index
