Re: How can I design business cards w/ Micro Office ?

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BruceM wrote:

That's a really useful idea to use bookmarks in that way. I found that the graphic does need to be inline, and that Ctrl A, F9 is needed to update the fields. Text added at the end of the last line of text will not be updated (since it is outside of the bookmark) until all of the text in the "active" cell is selected and the bookmark is inserted again.

In Tools --> Options --> "View" tab, if you check the "Show Bookmarks" box, big black brackets show up around each bookmark, to make it obvious what's included. It doesn't necessarily make the document any easier to read, but it definitely helps with debugging.

As I said (in different words) in another post in this thread, Word has a lot of useful and versatile features that tend to get buried under a layer of simplistic automation. Critics of Word often lament a lack of features that are in fact part of the program. Were it not for newsgroups I would not know one fourth of what Word can do.

:-) When my daughter was taking a geography class involving translating a satellite photograph to a vector-format map, the students were expected to use Corel Draw in the computer lab. to do the work. She didn't have a copy of Corel Draw in her room, and the laboratory was often closed when she wanted to work on her project... so I suggested using Word. Word has some limitations -- it doesn't allow you to name the layers in a vector image, for example, and there are some inconveniences in editing the tangents of the control points -- but the results were terrific, and the other students couldn't believe that she had done the entire project in Word (plus Paint for a couple of included bitmaps), and without having to do any VBA programming. (Using VBA, of course, you can do just about anything, so that wouldn't have been so remarkable, but she just used the ordinary user interface.)

Thank you for posting where the conversation started. I use the full Office Professional suite (not so much Power Point, though), and am always glad for new ideas.

It was a while before I noticed that Excel will solve non-linear optimization problems (good for such vital work as solving logic puzzles), and the example spreadsheets that Microsoft supplies with Excel show how to use it to develop a work schedule or to produce a numeric solution of differential equations, just using the basic user interface -- no programming needed. And all of these features are available, with very little effort, to an Access database, since Access users normally also have copies of Excel, Word, etc., available to them. Cool stuff.

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