Event Driven Macro

[MT DOJ Help Desk]

Word 2000

I have a document where I need to control what happens when the users pastes
a block of text into the document. Currently, I have a macro assigned to a
special toolbar button. This works fine, but if the user forgets to use the
toolbar button, things get more complicated. My macros are designed so that
they will try to handle things correctly if the user does NOT paste data
into the document using the toolbar button, but there's just no way to
predict all the things that may go wrong in that scenario.

I've been thinking that if I can make the macros run every time something is
pasted into the document, no matter what method is used to paste the data,
that my problems would be solved. So I started thinking of an "on event"
macro that would run each time something is pasted into the document. The
problem is that this on-event macro would need to work in only one specific
document. For example, if the user has 3 documents open, the on-event paste
macro would need to run in only one document, and pasting in the other two
documents would need to work normally.

Is there any way to setup an on-event macro for pasting so that it works in
only one document (as opposed to Word in general)?

 

[Jezebel]

If the macro is in a template other than Normal, it will run only for
documents to which that template is attached. So one method is to base your
'special' document on its own template, and the other two on a different
template.

Alternatively, you could have the macro run for all paste operations, but do
nothing special unless the active document is the one you are interested in;
in all other cases it simply does an ordinary paste.

That said, trapping the 'paste' event is not entirely straightforward. You
can write a macro called EditPaste -- that will run in place of the built-in
command if the user selects Paste from the edit menu. You can assign Ctrl-V
to the macro, to trap the keyboard shortcut.

There are also the PasteSpecial possibilities, but perhaps you can ignore
them in this case.

 

[MT DOJ Help Desk]

Thanks for the help! As it turns out, I had all the pieces in place except
the last one. The special document is based on a separate template that is
loaded with custom macros, and no other documents are (or will be) based on
that template. I created an EditPaste macro and have it calling my existing
routine. There's no need to assign the EditPaste macro to CTRL+V because
it's already assigned to that key combination, as well as SHIFT+INSERT, and
it works when using Paste off the Edit menu, or the normal Paste button on
the toolbar.

-- Tom

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