Word Add-Ins and VBA "How To" articles
Progress I’ve added in Images, Shapes and Custom Styles into the report generator. So it’s coming along. However, it’s not without any difficulties due to the way Word VBA handles the insertion of a new table. I’m still getting used to the way that it works, for example: Normally, you find the table in your […]
I’ve finally released a beta version of the Toolbox now that the Report Overview function exports into proper tables. The full suite of reporting options aren’t in there as I’ve got to add Custom Styles, various language detection, template names and both types of image: inline and shapes. But it gives you an idea of […]
It’s coming along nicely. Albeit with a lot of grey hairs being added to the head (and beard) as I split the functions apart from the listboxes into arrays. This morning I finished moving the Fields code out of the form and into the new ‘MainLoops’ module and it, like the others before it, now […]
For those technical authors (like myself) and other power Word users, there comes a time when you get a document which contains all manner of errors and problems that you need to take a step back and work out what needs fixing before diving in there. My toolbox can help you fix those problems, but […]
The what? I have been developing a Word add-in called Mike’s Toolbox for the last 2.5 years within my spare time: some of it at work, some of it at home. It started out life as a small collection of macros (without any proper GUI) that would fix a number of particular annoyances that kept […]
I’ve updated most of the pages with the latest screenshots. I had to install yet another WordPress plugin as, annoyingly, if you want to replace an existing screenshot you have to upload a fresh one, delete the old one then rename the new one and then it should (!) appear on the page. Or you […]
As my first official post on this new official website for my add-in, it might be a lengthy one 🙂 Code optimisation(s): There are several that I’ve discovered, including a variant of the ‘IF’ command that I didn’t know existed. First There’s the condensation of a line of code. I’ve done this before in previous […]
And it’s already up to v1.90e due to the work that I’ve been doing. So what’s been added/altered recently? a) I added an Index to my manual. This was going great until I tried to use my own Field Inspector tool to list the fields and the presence of the index caused it to crash. […]
It’s been a few months since the release of v1.87, but after several incarnations of the beta (v1.88), I can now announce the availability of v1.89. There have been *lots* of changes: either to existing features, or adding new features. I’ve also fixed some really embarrassing bug fixes and, as a visitor to this blog, […]
I’ve released a stand-alone version of a function that was from an older version of the toolbox. The code has been tidied up, CSV file writing added and some extra checks are now included. Load up the RoboHelp Map ID Report, click the Convert button and a .CSV file version will appear in the same […]