Q. I'd like to be able to do these things with my Word 2000

[George]

Hi,

Please explain the following, if you can:

How can I make my Word 2000 application open up, just showing the
text, when I double-click on an html file?

Also, if I wanted to automatically update some text strings in that or
any html file, like the replacement of certain text strings, would it
require any VBA programming, macros, etc.

I'm sure I'll have more questions, but's that all I have, right now.

George

 

[Jezebel]

How can I make my Word 2000 application open up, just showing the
text, when I double-click on an html file?

In Windows Explorer, you could associate the .htm extension with Word. Has
fairly serious implications for your web browsing, however. Might be better
to learn to right-click and select Word from the OpenWith list.

Also, if I wanted to automatically update some text strings in that or
any html file, like the replacement of certain text strings, would it
require any VBA programming, macros, etc.

Depends on what you mean by 'automatically'.

 

[George]

In Windows Explorer, you could associate the .htm extension with Word. Has
fairly serious implications for your web browsing, however. Might be better
to learn to right-click and select Word from the OpenWith list.

Jezebel, exactly as I state it: automatically (meaning, if I wanted
to do 1000000 of them, it would do all of them, the same way, one
right after the other.

Depends on what you mean by 'automatically'.

Thank you for responding to my post.
George

 

[Jezebel]

Jezebel, exactly as I state it: automatically (meaning, if I wanted
to do 1000000 of them, it would do all of them, the same way, one
right after the other.

'Automatic' means a lot of things. A million instances of the same string,
or of different strings? On the click of a button? When the document opens?

- Replacing all instances of a search string in a single user operation:
use Word's Find and Replace, set to 'replace all'

- Replacing each of a set of search strings in a single operation, or making
replacements without human intervention when the document is opened: you'll
need to use macros. Word can have macros that run automatically when a
document is created/opened/closed (among other events).


BTW, if you really do mean a million, you might find you're pushing Word's
operational limits.