Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/05
Unlike most applications where F3 is search next, Office has their own thought about keyboard shortcuts.
So in Word for Windows, you can use these:
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/25
Apart from the obvious “use less tables” and “break tables apart”, these can also help big time:
If it is still too slow, I might look into these:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/07/20
In case I need to re-download some language related Office 2013 things again: Office 2013 Language Pack Options.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/09/12
If you ever have this problem, check if the ddeexec key word opening Word documents as a [REM_DDE_EXEC] prepended.
If so: remove it.
ddeexec is used by the Windows Explorer to open a file through DDE (because that usually is a lot faster than starting a new proces) as explained by Taming Microsoft Word 2007’s File Associations and Document Windows, Part One — Within Windows.
–jeroen
via Multiple instances of Word launching when opening files from Explorer window.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/27
Though I’ve done this automation in Delphi, this applies to automation from any development platform. In this particular project, the documents used Bookmarks. Those have changed over time, so has the Word support for it.
From Word 2000 until Word you could disable the showing of Bookmarks by setting the ShowBookmarks property to False like this:
<br />ActiveDocument.ActiveWindow.View.ShowBookmarks := False;<br />
Well, when doing this, Office 2013 can throw an error like this:
EOleException: The ShowBookmarks method or property is not available because this command is not available for reading
ErrorCode: 0x800A11FD
Source: Microsoft Word
HelpFile: wdmain11.chm
The full error message does not give any useful search results. But a partial search finds a Word 2013 issue towards the top of the results:
sometimes Words opens the document in Reading layout. Reading layout does not allow all operations in Word 2013.
If a document is protected, and you try to change something you should not, you get an error message like this:
This method or property is not available because the document is a protected document.
Usually, Cindy Meister is very accurate. However this time here code
...ActiveWindow.View = wdPrintView
should have been like
...ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdPrintView
Of course you also have to save/restore this property while you are enabling the ShowBookmarks property.
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