Customizing symbols in Formatting Palette

[Jeff W.]

Is it possible to customize the symbols in the new word 2004 formating
palette under add objects-symbol?

The current symbols are useful but it would be great if I could add
some Greek Letters.

BTW the fading is really cool. Makes me happy to be on a Mac.

Thanks,
JP

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word]]

No, Sorry, not that I can find.

They're probably in com.microsoft.Word.prefs.plist, but if they are, they're
in binary and I can't find a way in.

I am afraid you will simply have to assign it a keystroke using
Tools>Customise. You would either store each character as an AutoText and
assign the autotext a keystroke with Tools>Customise, or create each
character as a Formatted Autocorrect.

For the adventurous: The Formatting Palette is not available in VBA (it's
technically a Work Pane, which is a member of the Task Panes collection, but
these have not been populated in Word 2004 VBA).

They are not properly documented in Word 2003 either, and only barely
accessible. Steve Hudson has just completed a vast article for
www.word.mvps.org that enables us to get some control over the Task Panes in
Word 2003. But even the cruel and unusual methods he uses in that article
are not available in Word 2004.

However, there is a possibility that they are accessible from AppleScript,
which I do not know at all. Paul B will hopefully be along in a minute to
tell us whether that is the case:

Paul, you are looking for a collection that in VBA is called wdTaskPanes and
there should be a set of enumerated constants. The bad news is likely to be
that only the FileNew task pane is customisable, and since FileNew is not a
Task Pane in Word 2004, its functionality displaced by the project gallery,
I think we're snookered...

Cheers

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Is it possible to customize the symbols in the new word 2004 formating
palette under add objects-symbol?

The current symbols are useful but it would be great if I could add
some Greek Letters.

BTW the fading is really cool. Makes me happy to be on a Mac.

Thanks,
JP

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[Paul Berkowitz]

For the adventurous: The Formatting Palette is not available in VBA (it's
technically a Work Pane, which is a member of the Task Panes collection, but
these have not been populated in Word 2004 VBA).

They are not properly documented in Word 2003 either, and only barely
accessible. Steve Hudson has just completed a vast article for
www.word.mvps.org that enables us to get some control over the Task Panes in
Word 2003. But even the cruel and unusual methods he uses in that article
are not available in Word 2004.

However, there is a possibility that they are accessible from AppleScript,
which I do not know at all. Paul B will hopefully be along in a minute to
tell us whether that is the case:

Paul, you are looking for a collection that in VBA is called wdTaskPanes and
there should be a set of enumerated constants. The bad news is likely to be
that only the FileNew task pane is customisable, and since FileNew is not a
Task Pane in Word 2004, its functionality displaced by the project gallery,
I think we're snookered...

Sorry, there's nothing like it via AppleScript. AppleScript for Word 2004 is
using the same Object Model as its VBA. (That was supposed to be the point:
they do not have the resources to maintain two entirely separate Object
Models.) There are a few commands (i.e. Methods) whose syntax has been
modified a bit to conform to AppleScript practice, all objects have a
"default" version whose parameters are predefined so you don't have to spell
them, also to conform to AppleScript practice, but otherwise it's the same
set of objects as in VBA. I would guess that implementing Mac-only Word
objects, where there cannot be any conflict with VB.anything to come, will
probably be on the agenda for the next Word version or so. And sooner or
later they'll have to decide which VB model they're going to use for future
versions too. I'll push for Formatting Palette as a really BIG item either
way.

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[John McGhie [MVP - Word]]

Hi Paul:

Yes: I thought that might be what you would say.

We're pushing really hard for the Formatting Palette on the PC side too.
Actually, it's not the Formatting Palette we want: we could care less...
It's the objects ON the Formatting Palette we want to get at.

The user interface is changing so that the Task Pane (of which the
Formatting Palette is one format) is becoming the only way to access some
controls. The ability to customise the objects on the Work Pane/Task Panes
are what we are really after. Since they are taking the place of toolbars,
we want to start changing the controls displayed

Cheers

Sorry, there's nothing like it via AppleScript. AppleScript for Word 2004 is
using the same Object Model as its VBA. (That was supposed to be the point:
they do not have the resources to maintain two entirely separate Object
Models.) There are a few commands (i.e. Methods) whose syntax has been
modified a bit to conform to AppleScript practice, all objects have a
"default" version whose parameters are predefined so you don't have to spell
them, also to conform to AppleScript practice, but otherwise it's the same
set of objects as in VBA. I would guess that implementing Mac-only Word
objects, where there cannot be any conflict with VB.anything to come, will
probably be on the agenda for the next Word version or so. And sooner or
later they'll have to decide which VB model they're going to use for future
versions too. I'll push for Formatting Palette as a really BIG item either
way.

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