Re: Pausing Macro, Returning to Pause Point

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From: Word Heretic (myfullname_at_tpg.com.au)
Date: 08/02/04 

Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 11:41:45 +1000

G'day Howie,

Yes, Howie would be more accurate, so long as its diminuative its ok
by us Aussies :-) Most people write mine as Stevey, not Stevie, so
its sorta interchangeable I guess :-)

As for id'ing the doc in question - you Open it.

Here's an example use case

I have a document called War which gets created for any country I am
having communication difficulties with.

War creates soldiers, ships and planes, then assigns orders, then
kills soldiers ships and planes.

On day 1, America refuses to pay my tech writing bill so I open up a
new War document, call it War - America, and start filling out the
fields. This is a slow process and at lunchtime I stop. When I get
back from lunch, I find out China has pirated all my tools, so I open
a new War document, call it War - China, and start filling out the
fields.

The next day i come in and continue my mission with China, and the day
after. Day 4 I have completed the first part of War - China and have
to wait for the Engagement process to complete so I can run some
statistical analysis on the combat results. Whilst I am waiting for
the engagement, I browse to and re-open War - America and get back on
with the job of reducing Seppo land to a comma delimited
parenthetical phrase.

Thus, each doc carries its status, rather than having a registry that
looks like

America 2000
America 2004
China 2002
China 2004
Germany 2001
Germany 2003

etc

I never finished the war with America in 2000, but I recommenced a new
one in 2004 which is also still ongoing.

Then, for 'duplicate named documents' you still have to generate a
unqiue id and tie to a document variable. Thus, if we are going to use
a doc var, let's just stay with that.

Besides, I like to think of documents as convenient data containers.
Why maintain an articificial link to another, less convenient (eg no
RTF) data container - the registry.

Finally, and probably the most potent argument of the lot, should I
email War- America to Mr McGhie to complete for me whilst I am
completing War-China, or even to myself at home to continue from
there, IT WILL WORK. The registry way it will have no idea.

Steve Hudson - Word Heretic
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Howard Kaikow reckoned:

>The Registry, or .ini file, is necessary to save stuff to identify which
>document(s) to process.
>Such info cannot be saved within the doc, as the software has no idea what
>docs to open/validate.
>
>P.S. I've likely been called everything, but I don't believe I've ever seen
>the spelling "Howey".
>Do folkes down under commonly use "ey" instead of "ie" in such words.

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