My original post in this thread did that - I merely rose to your
bait. The macro sets the switch initially to off, but when it is set
to on it gives the user the choice of mergeformat or charformat.
Nothing more
Personally I find that a useful addition, though in
practice I tend to insert fields from the keyboard.
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macropod wrote:
Hi Graham,
OK, but except for the fact that you've added the Charformat switch
(which presumably will prevent the sometimes-reported occurrence of
Word inserting an unwanted Mergeformat switch), I don't see that
you've actually accomplished much more than what you'd get by simply
deleting the Mergeformat switch, for which see Jay Freedman's post
at:
http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/word-vba-custom/209/changing-Field-defaults
which I've reporduced below.
Sub InsertFieldNoMergeFmt()
With Dialogs(wdDialogInsertField)
SendKeys "%v": .Show
End With
End Sub
He can add it to the inserted field - just like any other
formatting. The charformat switch would ensure it stays thus when
the field is updated.
While the code was merely an exercise to
a see if it could be done,
I quite like the result so I am now using it. I feel another
addition to my web site coming on
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macropod wrote:
Ah, but what if the user wants something different to emphasise
the link (eg a character style, or hard formatting)?
If a user makes proper use of styles, ALL of the field will be
formatted with the required format and the field content will
match the rest of the line.
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macropod wrote:
Hi Graham,
That's a good start, but for the Charformat switch to be useful,
you also need to give the user all the normal font controls over
the first field description character, which is usually the 2nd
character in the field.
How about
Sub InsertField()
Dim oRng As Range
Dim i As Variant
Dim sSwitch As String
Dim strChoice As String
SendKeys "{Tab}{Tab} +{Tab}+{Tab}"
Dialogs(wdDialogInsertField).Show
ActiveDocument.ActiveWindow.View.ShowFieldCodes = True
Selection.MoveLeft Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1,
Extend:=wdExtend Set oRng = Selection.Range
For i = 1 To oRng.Fields.Count
With oRng.Fields(i)
If InStr(1, .Code, "MERGEFORMAT") <> 0 Then
sSwitch = MsgBox("Use charformat in place of
mergeformat switch?", _ vbYesNo, _
"Insert Field")
If sSwitch = vbYes Then
.Code.Text = Replace(.Code.Text, _
"MERGEFORMAT", _
"CHARFORMAT")
End If
End If
.Update
End With
Next i
ActiveDocument.ActiveWindow.View.ShowFieldCodes = False
Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
End Sub
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macropod wrote:
Your task, should you choose to accept it, is to create a
Charformat option ... that runs from the Field|Insert
message
The following macro
Sub InsertField()
SendKeys "{Tab}{Tab} +{Tab}+{Tab}"
Dialogs(wdDialogInsertField).Show
End Sub
will open the InsertField dialog with the 'preserve
formatting' option unchecked. It works in Word 2003 also.
Given that I can think of few circumstances where the
mergeformat switch is actually helpful, I use this on all my
Word installations. Now why couldn't we have had a charformat
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macropod wrote:
Hi bsharp,
Sorry, the 'preserve formatting' option is only displayed
via the right-click or when you use Insert|Field.
Thanks, first part of your tip worked great.
I don't see an option to uncheck the 'preserve formatting'
option. I was entering "ref Date" and then selecting both
words, then hitting ctl-F9. Then I tried inserting a cross
reference, choosing bookmark, then
choosing the appropriate bookmark, but I don't see an
option about preserving formatting.
I did just find another way to do it, if I right-click on
the cross-reference, then choose edit field, there is a box
checked to preserve formatting that I can uncheck. So that
is a little quicker way to handle the first part of your
tip. "macropod" wrote:
Hi bsharp,
Press Alt-F9 to expose the field codes. Your
cross-references will look like {REF _123456789 \*
MERGEFORMAT} or {REF _123456789 \* MERGEFORMAT \h}. Delete
the '\* MERGEFORMAT' string and press F9. When you're
finished, press Alt-F9 again. For future reference,
uncheck the 'preserve formatting' option when inserting
cross-references. --
Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]
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I am using Word 2007.
I have cross-references back to bookmarks through a 10
page document. All the sources are on the first page.
When I put a cross-reference on the first page,
formatting comes out fine, even when data is updated.
On SOME of the other pages, the formatting changes. And
it's even within the field, for example, on a date field
the month will be a smaller font size than the day, and
the day and year may be
bold. Doesn't seem to matter what I format the source as.
When I format the references, it will take, but then
change when updated.
