Some nice feedback received
After sending out a copy of the Add-In to two people I know via LinkedIn (that are very good with Word VBA), I got some nice feedback by return.
There’s no password / protection on my Add-In so that anyone who wants to look at how I’ve coded the Add-In (badly or otherwise), can dive in and have a good look around.
Some of the feedback received has already been implemented. Especially a major speed-up in the ‘Which Fonts’ routine which is now blisteringly fast compared to the previous code. Before the code tweak, the routine would examine every single character in a document and, if it was using a different font, would add it to the list. The new version does the same thing but on a paragraph basis first and then, if there are mixed fonts found, it will examine the paragraph in question one character at a time.
I’m currently adding a lot more fields to the ‘Document Information’ screen after the above updates. No idea when I’ll be able to release it though as I’m hoping more fee