atw: Re: Is MS Word really this bad?

Hmmm... I think I have managed to use a StyleRef from a text box before - 
either that or I might have been doing some funky stuff with the style itself. 
I don't have the doc here to look at - I was putting the headers sideways along 
the long margin of the page, and I think I used text boxes for them.

Though now I think of it, I was using the StyleRef code inside the funky 
headers, referencing headings in the main text of the document, so you could be 
right about not being able to StyleRef *from* a text box.

Have you considered just doing some funky placement stuff with the style 
itself, rather than using a text box?


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From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
On Behalf Of Geoffrey Marnell [geoffrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, 1 June 2009 10:35 AM
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Subject: atw: Re: Is MS Word really this bad?

Hi Rhonda,

Thanks for the tip, but it doesn't work in my case. I still get this: Error! No 
text of specified style in document.

Might it be because the text I want as the source of the cross-reference is 
inside a text box rather than in the body of the document?

Cheers

Geoffrey Marnell
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[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rhonda Bracey
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 12:49 AM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Is MS Word really this bad?

There's another way of doing this -- use the StyleRef field and then the users 
can't break it as easily.

Details here:
http://cybertext.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/word-use-styleref-field-to-populate-headerfooter/

Rhonda


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[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Geoffrey Marnell
Sent: Sunday, 31 May 2009 6:31 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Is MS Word really this bad?

Hi austechies,

Perhaps I've been living on that holiday island called Adobe FrameMaker for too 
long, and expect MS Word to be similarly intuitive and smart. Or maybe I'm just 
a fool for thinking so. But I've gone bald today trying to do this:

 *   get a string of characters in various footers to automatically reflect 
text a user enters into a text box on the first page of the document.

Simple in FrameMaker. But in MS Word?

If I assign a bookmark to the text in the text box, there is no automatic 
updating. I have to go to each footer (each footer in each section) and 
manually update the cross-reference. Even so, If the user completely changes 
the text in the text box—which I expect they will do often—the bookmark 
vanishes and no form of updating inserts the new text in any footer. The result 
is an error message. The same occurs if I cross-reference a heading rather than 
a bookmark. Completely change the text of the heading, and bingo: every 
cross-reference to it converts to an error message on updating.

In FrameMaker you can cross-reference any paragraph tag—not just the eight 
reference types MS Word gives you—and if the entire text so tagged changes, 
each cross-reference to it also changes—automatically—and regardless of whether 
it is in the body of the document or in a footer or header. Simple, intuitive, 
what anyone might expect.

Do I really need to master VBA to use MS Word and keep my hair?

BTW: I'm using MS Word 2003.


Geoffrey Marnell
Principal Consultant
Abelard Consulting Pty Ltd
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F: +61 3 9596 3625
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