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Office Word Programming >> Advice needed...

by Dennis Kowallek » Fri, 04 Jul 2003 23:25:51 GMT

Using Office Pro for XP

I am not that familiar with Macros, Visual Basic, etc., so I was hoping
someone could give me some advice or at least point me in the right direction.

I am thinking about writing a Family History (using Word). In simplified form,
it would look something like this...

Person1 (A)

Person2, who is the child of Person 1 (AA)
Person3, who is the child of Person 1 (AB)
Person4, who is the child of Person 1 (AC)
Person5, who is the child of Person 1 (AD)

Person6, who is the child of Person 2 (AAA)
Person7, who is the child of Person 2 (AAB)
Person8, who is the child of Person 2 (AAC)
Person9, who is the child of Person 2 (AAD)

Person10, who is the child of Person 3 (ABA)
Person11, who is the child of Person 3 (ABB)
Person12, who is the child of Person 3 (ABC)
Person13, who is the child of Person 3 (ABD)

etc.

The letters in parentheses represent a numbering system that would make it
easy to identify a person's lineage. i.e. ABD is the child of AB, who is the
child of A.

I would prefer not to "hard code" the numbering system, as I will have a need
to insert newly discovered children or even add earlier generations to the
front end.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I could accomplish this? Is this
something that could be accomplished with Macros or Visual Basic for
Applications?

Thanks in advance!

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Dennis M. Kowallek
XXXX@XXXXX.COM

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Office Word Programming >> Advice needed...

by Howard Kaikow » Sat, 05 Jul 2003 10:29:33 GMT


For info on Word VBA macros, take a look at the list of Word VBA books at my
URL below.

Using macros, you could keep the info for each person in, say, a data base
and have the macros construct/manipulate the reports for you.

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http://www.standards.com/ ; Howard Kaikow's web site.
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Office Word Programming >> Advice needed...

by martinique » Mon, 07 Jul 2003 08:52:28 GMT

There are quite a few freeware, shareware, and commercial software packages
around for precisely this purpose. Having written one myself (for horses
rather than people in my case), I can tell you that it's nowhere near as
simple as it looks. For one thing, in most families you don't have to go far
before encountering people whose parentage is unknown or disputed, and your
coding system needs to deal with those too.




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hi all,

wxp pro sp2, office 2003 sp2, pentium 1.73 Ghz, 512 Mb DDR-Ram,

not quite sure whether this is a machine specific issue, Word or me not 
doing things right.

i am preparing a large document. at the moment it is approaching 500 pages 
long, lots of texts, tables and figures (no colors, just b&w). lately, 
whenever i cut and paste texts/tables from other documents/excels it can be 
anywhere between few seconds to nearly 10 minutes before i can do anything to 
the pasted e.g. tables. some things that i noticed:

pasted table appeared a few rows at a time, the columns appeared zig-zag, 
and the spelling and grammar status were busy scribing (you know the icon at 
the bottom of Word 2003, next to language box). the table appeared settled 
only when the spelling and grammar status completed it 'scribbling' and this 
can take anywhere between a few seconds to, on an occasion, just under 10 
minutes.

what i have tried was to cut and paste to a blank document, finalize it 
(i.e. fixed the style, formatting, spellings etc). then copy paste into the 
document that i am preparing. however this does not appear to solve the 
problem (if it is a problem). the spelling and grammar status keep doing its 
'scribbling' while i am forced to wait.

not only that, twice now, whenever i alt-tab to something else and then 
alt-tab back to word, word shuts down. i have to Start -> Word to launch Word 
and recover my document. this is  a rather worrying situation to me. on both 
occasions though i did not loose any work and i do have back-ups of the 
documents i am at a lost to explain this behaviour of word.

any help, advice, or work-arounds is appreciated. in particular i am 
thinking about splitting the work but i do not know whether that is advisable 
and what would happen to all the captioning and cross-referencing of all the 
tables and figures that i have undertaken.

regards,
jes