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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

Andrew Savikas works in the O'Reilly Tools Group, where he helps the production department turn manuscripts into O'Reilly books. He developed and maintains the custom Word template and VBA macros used by all the O'Reilly authors who don't insist on writing in POD. Except for the ones who insist on writing in XML. Or Troff.

Andrew also works with FrameMaker, FrameScript, InDesign, DocBook XML, Perl, Python, sed, and whatever else he finds lying around the office. He has a degree in communications from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and lives in Boston with his wife, Audrey, who loves to see her name in print.

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