Frank Rice’s Tips When Using Word 2003

Frank Rice at Microsoft’s MSDN site offfers some great tips on using Word 2003.

“This article consists of a compilation of various tips from the Microsoft Word newsgroups. By using these procedures and modifying them for your own use, you can make your own applications more robust and provide more options to your users.”

The areas he covers include:

  • Adding a Button to a Word Document and Assigning Its Click Event at Run Time
  • Displaying a Message Dialog Box Before Printing a Document
  • Adding a Command to a Menu Item
  • Returning the Name or Index Number from a Selected Shape
  • Converting a Short Date to a Full Date Format
  • Populate a List Box with File Names
  • Determine Whether a File Exists Create a Masked Password Dialog Box
  • Remove/Restate Document Protection

More over here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odc_wd2003_ta/html/OfficeTipsWhenUsingWord.asp