Switching over from WordPerfect

peter bond · #1 06-29-2017, 03:52 AM

My company used WordPerfect for years. Now they switched to Word, which I find faster, and more flexible. The problem I am having is that, after years of manipulating the keyboard with macros in WordPerfect, I can't figure out how to do the same with Word macros.

For instance, I have macros that open the Bookmark dialogue box, and macros that can select every word in parenthesis in a document, then capitalize the words within the parenthesis.

Is there a way have these types of features in Word?

Many thanks,
Peter Bond

gmayor · #2 06-29-2017, 04:14 AM

Word Perfect uses macros in a different way from Word, but you can do much the same sorts of things. e.g. to show the bookmark dialog

Code:

Sub ShowBkMkDialog()
    Dialogs(wdDialogInsertBookmark).Show
End Sub

but it is just as easy to click the Bookmark button on the Insert tab, and you may find http://www.gmayor.com/BookmarkandVariableEditor.htm even more useful.

For the parentheses

Code:

Sub ParensTextCaps()
Dim oRng As Range
    Set oRng = ActiveDocument.Range
    With oRng.Find
        Do While .Execute(FindText:="\(*\)", MatchWildcards:=True)
            oRng.Case = wdUpperCase
            oRng.Collapse 0
        Loop
    End With
lbl_Exit:
    Set oRng = Nothing
    Exit Sub
End Sub

See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

peter bond · #3 06-29-2017, 04:39 AM

Many thanks. I've been remapping the keyboard using WordPerfect so long, it's kept me from looking at Word. Now, I'm determined to use Word, and remap the keyboard to match what I had in WordPerfect.

The remap, of course, has mostly to do with macros...executing functions, bringing up dialogue boxes like the bookmarks, etc.

It's a learning curve, but one that I feel is worth it.

Again, many thanks, for the help.
Peter

peter bond · #4 06-29-2017, 06:02 PM

Well, I've been able to carry over many of the keyboard mapping from WP.

One feature that escapes me is automatically placing a bookmark on the document before you exit or close the document, so it automatically goes to that spot when the document opens the next time.

I deal with very long documents and this one of those features that makes my life easier.

Any suggestions or ideas are very welcome.

Many thanks in advance...
Peter

gmaxey · #5 06-30-2017, 06:53 AM

Use Shift+F5

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