first bigger project

[Andrea]

Hello,

can you recommend me a topic in which I can program a first bigger project
with Word VBA? What could I do, which is not to difficult but combine the
objects of word in a way that I can learn to program bigger problems? And how
do you go, start to program bigger problems, projects? Do you sketch it, or
program it directly, e.g.?

Best regards,
Andrea

 

[Jonathan West]

Hello,

can you recommend me a topic in which I can program a first bigger project
with Word VBA? What could I do, which is not to difficult but combine the
objects of word in a way that I can learn to program bigger problems? And
how
do you go, start to program bigger problems, projects? Do you sketch it,
or
program it directly, e.g.?

Start with some problem with Word which has bugged you, particularly
regarding the number of mouse-clicks it takes to do some operation you have
to do often.

It is always better to start with a real problem and to try and program it
than to say "I want to program Word VBA to do something"

As for how to go about building projects, Word VBA isn't all that different
to any other programming language. I would strongly recommend "Code
Complete" by Steve McConnell as a good all-round guide for good programming
practice.

 

[Andrea]

Hello,

Thank you very much for your answer. I would like to work with forms, for
example when a field is filled out, something should happen. How should I
start something like that? Another problem are change text in a table and
format the table. And the third thing are mail merge things.

Can you tell me, what would be the easiest thing to start with, and where
can I learn most? And how should I start projects like these?

Best regards,
Andrea

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

If you want to do things with forms, you first have to decide what it is.
Having done that, you will probably find the way to do it on the following
page of fellow MVP Dian Chapman's website at:

http://www.mousetrax.com/techpage.html#autoforms


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Doug Robbins - Word MVP