Word expert needed

[Terry Irwin]

I am currently looking for a Word expert. This would be to
produce style sheets as templates for a number of
documents in a large UK teaching hospital. These would be
letters, fax headers, memos etc.

The expert would have to have high level knowledge of Word
and expertise in graphics/typography to make the finished
documents look professional. This is a one off project,
but may result in occasional ad hoc projects in the future.

If anyone supporting this board is or knows of someone
with this expertsie, could they contact me at
stirwin@surgeon dot dnet dot co dot uk (replacing the dots
of course)

Terry Irwin

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

A number of the Word MVPs do this kind of work. See
http://word.mvps.org/AboutMVPs/index.htm

 

[Prakash Mistry]

Please can someone help me.

I just need to PRE-FORMAT a plain text report (from a DOS legacy output)
so that when I open in Word, it has the headings etc. formatted.
This is like HTML markup.
However, I can't seem to find any way to do this.
Sorry if this sounds so dumb.

Thanks

Prakash

 

[Robert M. Franz]

Hi Prakash

I just need to PRE-FORMAT a plain text report (from a DOS legacy output)
so that when I open in Word, it has the headings etc. formatted.
This is like HTML markup.
However, I can't seem to find any way to do this.
Sorry if this sounds so dumb.

Not "dumb", but not clear enough: Is this a one-time task, or do you
need to edit various files like this?

If you work with Word, then the usual way is to open up the text in Word
itself, see which internal converter (File | Open: Filetype) works best,
and then maybe use Search/Replace to get what you desire. Another
alternative would be to preprocess your text files in a text editor of
your choice and end up with an HTML file (which Word can open since Word
97) or XML file (Word 2003 prof.). What way you chose depends on your
knowledge of the structure of the files at hand, and of the amount of
files we're dealing with here ...

2cents
..bob

 

[Prakash Mistry]

I want to output a report, like a price list.
Begins with a header: cented, 20 point, bold, underlined

XYZ COMPANY - PRICE LIST JAN 04

Category: S1 - Dishes

Code Description Box Qty Price
ABC001 12" white ceramic 12 45.90
etc.

So I need to markup the text as it is produced.
HTML markup is not ideal for me.
Is it not possible to markup with Word/Wordpad formatting command?

I don't want the end user to have to do any formatting.
Can i search/replace characters with formatting commands?
e.g. ##XYZ COMPANY -... where ## repalced by whatever I need to make it bold.
I am sorry if I seem confused but all I want is a plain text to produce the above
(on demand, repeatedly) the above formatting.

Any help would be most welcome.

Prakash

Hi Prakash

I just need to PRE-FORMAT a plain text report (from a DOS legacy output)
so that when I open in Word, it has the headings etc. formatted.
This is like HTML markup.
However, I can't seem to find any way to do this.
Sorry if this sounds so dumb.

Not "dumb", but not clear enough: Is this a one-time task, or do you
need to edit various files like this?

If you work with Word, then the usual way is to open up the text in Word
itself, see which internal converter (File | Open: Filetype) works best,
and then maybe use Search/Replace to get what you desire. Another
alternative would be to preprocess your text files in a text editor of
your choice and end up with an HTML file (which Word can open since Word
97) or XML file (Word 2003 prof.). What way you chose depends on your
knowledge of the structure of the files at hand, and of the amount of
files we're dealing with here ...

2cents
..bob

 

[Robert M. Franz]

Hi Prakash

I want to output a report, like a price list.
Begins with a header: cented, 20 point, bold, underlined

_*XYZ COMPANY - PRICE LIST JAN 04*_

_*Category: S1 - Dishes*_
__
*Code Description Box Qty Price*
ABC001 12" white ceramic 12 45.90
etc.

So I need to markup the text as it is produced.
HTML markup is not ideal for me.
Is it not possible to markup with Word/Wordpad formatting command?

Hmm, of course this is possible, I guess I'm beginning to understand.

I don't want the end user to have to do any formatting.
Can i search/replace characters with formatting commands?
e.g. ##XYZ COMPANY -... where ## repalced by whatever I need to make it bold.

OK, this works, yes. A Word file is quite different than HTML (it's not
a text file at all), but you can still do what you want. Edit | Replace
is the place to turn to at first, using Word's own version of Regular
Expressions. Aside to Word's Help menue, the following two articles will
shed some light for you:

Add Power to Word Searches with Regular Expressions (by Colin Wilcox,
Graham Mayor, and Klaus Linke)
http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/2002/articles/pwWordwildcards.aspx

Finding and replacing characters using wildcards (by Graham Mayor and
Klaus Linke)
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/UsingWildcards.htm

I am sorry if I seem confused but all I want is a plain text to produce the above
(on demand, repeatedly) the above formatting.

No need to be sorry, supposedly none of us is writing in his mother
tongue here.

For repeating these steps, you'll need VBA. Depending on how big the
text files are (and/or how frequently the macro should run), you can get
away with recording your replace runs. Scratching out unneccessary
entries in the recorded code might pay off a bit, but for the finer
stuff, you need to rewrite a bit more I guess.

Greetinx
..bob