Word in Notebook Format

[cathybh]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel can i use this notebook format as a diary? If yes, how to add a new page under the same tag? If it work, that would be great!! thanks.

 

[John McGhie]

I would not trust a "Notebook View" document under continuous editing for
very long. They tend to break easily.

So "No".

Use an ordinary document that you can edit directly over long periods
without breaking it.

And keep a BACKUP!! Remember there is no such thing as "losing a few pages"
of a computer file: you can either read it ALL or NONE at ALL. If something
goes wrong, you lose the lot. So run a backup

Cheers

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel
can i use this notebook format as a diary? If yes, how to add a new page under
the same tag? If it work, that would be great!! thanks.

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[Jeff Chapman]

Hi John,

I would not trust a "Notebook View" document under continuous editing for
very long. They tend to break easily.

So "No".

I trust that this advice comes from bitter
experience... ?

Concept-wise, you would think that Notebook
Layout View would be ideal for such a thing as
a daily journal or diary. Of course, there would
be a limit to the number of days you could
include, if you used one tab per day.

There seems to be another issue with doing journal-style
entries in Notebook Layout View: the date stamp.
The field provided in the top right-hand corner of each
blank page does not reflect the date that this tab or
page was created, but rather appears to be the creation
date of the entire document.
I wonder if there is a way to modify this
field code so that the date of creation of the page,
not the entire document is displayed?

Jeff

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Jeff:

My advice was NOT based on "personal" experience: that was one issue I
managed to avoid. I have actually had very few issues with Word 2008, but I
don't use it in "production" because of its limitations.

You make an important point with the number of pages. We may have a little
issue with the limit of 255 section breaks in a document. Theoretically you
can go higher than that in .docx, but Word 2008 doesn't seem to like it. So
you would also get an issue with not being able to make a diary for a whole
year...

The Date fields are all based on the document property dates. The pages in
Notebook View are produced by section-breaks, and the section break does not
have a date property.

Now next year, when we have VBA ...

But this year, we don't. So we get to TYPE the date if you want a date on
each page

Now, where's macropod? There's a cunning intervention we "could" do using a
StyleRef field to return the date content from the previous "DateHeading"
paragraph and formula fields to add one to it unless today is a Monday...
That will keep him busy for a while

Cheers

Hi John,



I trust that this advice comes from bitter
experience... ?

Concept-wise, you would think that Notebook
Layout View would be ideal for such a thing as
a daily journal or diary. Of course, there would
be a limit to the number of days you could
include, if you used one tab per day.

There seems to be another issue with doing journal-style
entries in Notebook Layout View: the date stamp.
The field provided in the top right-hand corner of each
blank page does not reflect the date that this tab or
page was created, but rather appears to be the creation
date of the entire document.
I wonder if there is a way to modify this
field code so that the date of creation of the page,
not the entire document is displayed?

Jeff

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McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. | Ph: +61 (0)4 1209 1410
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]

 

[CyberTaz]

Not to rain on the parade, but even such a field concoction would be a PITA
in a NB document -- assuming it would even work -- as there is no
availability of the Insert> Field dialog.

<snip>

Now, where's macropod? There's a cunning intervention we "could" do using a
StyleRef field to return the date content from the previous "DateHeading"
paragraph and formula fields to add one to it unless today is a Monday...
That will keep him busy for a while

<snip>

A few observations about NBL View;

* Insert> Field can't be selected in the Menu,
* I've not seen any way to customize the NBL Standard toolbar,
* Other toolbars - custom or built-in - won't display,
* Even a keystroke assignment won't produce it in NBL View,
* There is no availability of Styles to be "ref'd", and
* Fields don't seem to work there, at all.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[John McGhie]

Remind me to buy an umbrella when I get off the plane in San Francisco

Not to rain on the parade, but even such a field concoction would be a PITA
in a NB document -- assuming it would even work -- as there is no
availability of the Insert> Field dialog.

<snip>

<snip>

A few observations about NBL View;

* Insert> Field can't be selected in the Menu,
* I've not seen any way to customize the NBL Standard toolbar,
* Other toolbars - custom or built-in - won't display,
* Even a keystroke assignment won't produce it in NBL View,
* There is no availability of Styles to be "ref'd", and
* Fields don't seem to work there, at all.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

This email is my business email -- Please do not email me about forum
matters unless you intend to pay!

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John McGhie, Microsoft MVP (Word, Mac Word), Consultant Technical Writer,
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. | Ph: +61 (0)4 1209 1410
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]