Actually, I'm retired and never studied programming, per se, or worked as a programmer.



All of what I know about VBA comes from personal research, studying the code others have produced and developing solutions for people in forums such as this.

I doubt there's many organizations that would need someone whose programming skills are limited to VBA.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Like macropod, I'm retired as well. I have never had any formal training in programming, and most of the little I know has been learned from just digging in until I find a solution to my own problems or (in most cases) problems others have posted. Macropod has thrown me a bone from time to time as well


Yes, over the years, I have done a bit of paid work, but I would not call it making a living. With a very limited number of exceptions, most of the paid gigs have resulted from people reaching out on my website looking for a simple solution for "x" not realizing that what they really need isn't "x" but "XY and Z."


If you are new to this forum and similar others, you might not have noticed that the volume of traffic is way down from what it was three years (or even one year) ago. AI is now on the scene. A lot of people now get there simple solution to "x" (half baked as it usually is) from AI bots and feel "x" is good enough. Probably a tough time to try to make a living with VBA.

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Greg Maxey
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If you're going to use code like that, it should be run before you make any of the other changes - and only on portions of the document preceding an unbalanced page/column ending. That's because the paragraph with a short line-wrap at the end that you can manipulate to achieve the desired result might occur, say, three or four pages before the unbalanced one. In your screenshot, for example, the unbalance is apparently due to the use of Word's widow/orphan control, but there isn't a paragraph with a short line ending on the 'short' page. There may be one on the previous page, however, and adjusting that one would shift everything up by one line on the two pages in your screenshot.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Thank's a lot