Re: More guerilla marketing ... shun these bastards
Bill Coan is an excellent programmer and a big contributor to this
community. I'm confident that the endorsement of the OP is genuine, even if
off-topic in this newsgroup.
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Charles Kenyon
Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word
Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide
See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"Jezebel" <warcrimes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Stephan" <Stephan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Finally I found someone that not only knows the inner workings of Word
>> but
>> has the ability to write custom programs on the fly!
>>
>> I wish that I had known about Bill Coan's talents a long time ago! After
>> tracking him down on various message boards and references I finally
>> found
>> him at wordsite.com and immediately threw a host of programming requests
>> at
>> him. You wouldn't believe how fast he was able to write custom macros to
>> save
>> me a ton of work. My favorite one is the ability to copy a hyperlinked
>> text
>> box from one document and then paste it on every page of another
>> document.
>> Think of defining navigation links, manually it was not only killing me,
>> but
>> the normal cut & paste feature in Word always offsets pasted objects.
>> Having
>> to manully repostion my linking objects was so painful.
>>
>> He also wrote a routine to analyze the paragraph styles in a document and
>> compare it to the template. Unauthorized sytles are flagged and changed
>> to
>> "legal" ones. Then all the bad ones can be deleted. Too cool! Manually
>> trying
>> to cleanup documents from many authors was killing me.
>>
>> Bill, you are great!
>>
>> Wish someone had pointed me in his direction earlier.
>>
>> Stephan
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