how do we use web tools?

[To Go]

In response to Jay Freedman's information, the programs that I was seeking
for email were in Outlook Express instead of Word now. It is as simple as
the web tools were. I suppose that, with a little effort, the email template
could be used as a web site entry for those who need the features that have
been removed from Office XP or upgrades. The web toolbar is not of any use
at all to me, as the Visual Basic editor does not give HTML which is useful
in writing scripts, only debugging, which should have been the alternative to
removing our program features, in my opinion. To say that the 'hole' in the
web tools was irreparable is not a rational conclusion considering the amount
of research that precluded this action in the development of the html scripts.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi To Go,


It was not stated that the controls were irreplaceable, only that the MS Windows team, the ones who disabled them, have so far not
chosen to provide a replacement for the one, unsafe, disabled Active X control that the Web Tools toolbar used in Word for
inserting a background sound or scrolling text while in the user area of a MS Word document.

Yes, there are workarounds to it, for example, the use of an HTML statement in thge HTML source of a Word Document in a format such
as this for a background sound

<BGSOUND balance=0 src="G:\MySounds\somemusic.wav" volume=0 loop=2>

or for scrolling text

<MARQUEE behavior="slide" loop=1>Some Moving Text </MARQUEE>

[the coding approach that Outlook Express (OE6) uses] will still work through the
HTML source editor in Office 2000, Office XP and Office 2003 (the optional install MS Script Editor, rather than the Visual Basic
Editor). Note that both of these are 'old' HTML <g>.

The Web toolbar in Word relied on using a specific activeX control. It is possible to overcome the security update and reactivate
the control on your PC, but someone visiting a website or using email to view HTML created with that .ocx control who had the
security update install (or who have their email set to 'open in plain text', for example still wouldn't see or hear the function
you wanted.

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In response to Jay Freedman's information, the programs that I was seeking
for email were in Outlook Express instead of Word now. It is as simple as
the web tools were. I suppose that, with a little effort, the email template
could be used as a web site entry for those who need the features that have
been removed from Office XP or upgrades. The web toolbar is not of any use
at all to me, as the Visual Basic editor does not give HTML which is useful
in writing scripts, only debugging, which should have been the alternative to
removing our program features, in my opinion. To say that the 'hole' in the
web tools was irreparable is not a rational conclusion considering the amount
of research that precluded this action in the development of the html scripts.>>
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

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