Thanks!
Have tried all these, and this works as expected in my Windows version of InDesign, but when I send the same file to a colleague working with InDesign on a Mac the file loads in the same way, and the styles load into the style palette, but none of the text paragraphs have any style...
I'm trying to import a tagged text file produced on a Windows machine into InDesign running on a Mac. The tagged text file imports fine into InDesign running under Windows, but when the same file is imported into InDesign running on a Mac, although the style tag definitions are imported, none of...
My problem was landscape table pages in a portrait book. Eventually solved it by putting a frame on the page which was to be landscape to the size of the portrait text area, noting the width and height dimensions, and then swapping them over in the control panel (ie making the width the height...
Hi Lessa
I've just come across this thread a couple of months after your original post and have some information that may help.
Tagged text is simply a text file which contains codes (tags) that Indesign recognises and uses to format the text
<ParaSyle:Style1> for instance will apply the...
The moral of the story is search carefully through tek-tips and somewhere you will find the answer.
In this case create a word object, open up the .dot template, fill the textboxes by referencing their name
oWord=CREATEOBJECT('Word.Application')
oDoc=oWord.Documents.Open('c:\myform.dot')...
Mike
Yes, I was so far absorbeed with the problem trying figure it out I've probably left all the real essentials out of my questions
We're working on a VFP workflow system where users are issued work via a form by email and the outcome can in most circumstances be one of three options, we...
Can any suggest how to insert content into a Word form fields?
We want to send users a form where they can select one of three possible paragraphs by using Word form tick boxes, but we want them to be able to edit the paragraph if necessary. The content of the paragraphs will vary each time the...
Dear Wolluf
On one of our machines the printing over the network function stopped, I couldn't reinstall printers because the 'add printer' wizard froze at the browse for printer screen. After two days of reinstalling Windows and general messing about I read this your first reply and thought...
I need to 'fix' some data in an SQL database on a web host.
Making a remote view of the table opens some of the fields as memo fields with every other character being a non-displayable character [I think they are chr(0)]. I've tried turning on and off the character translation in the ODBC data...
Micael
When we did this we tackled the problem by having a table where each record was a language and each field corresponded to a label or whatever on the form. The record was selected in the form's init event and the label captions set to
thisform.captionx=table.captionx
Mike
Thanks that's really useful - and I see you learned your keyboard skills at the same place as me - I'm sick of typing owrod for oword, perhaps I ought just to use owrod as the object name
John
Mike
I think I'd come to the same conclusion. An ancillary problem is that not really understanding how to handle Word. When trying to shutdown (the computer) after doing this I got loads of 'Template open do you want to save' messages (though Task Manager didn't show any running Word tasks)...
Mike
I've done some experimenting, and
oword=CREATEOBJECT('word.application')
oword.Documents.Open('c:\temp\text1.txt')
**The original text field copied to a text file
oword.Documents(1).Compare('c:\temp\text2.txt')
** the changed text field copied to a text file
oword.documents(2).Close...
Mike
but it shouldn't be that difficult to figure out.
Tried doing that, but couldn't get a good result. I can spot the first change by working forward through the field, and the end of the last change by working backwards, but figuring out anything in the middle is mindboggling eg
abc def...
Mike and Mike
Thanks. The point I omitted from the original explanation is that the data includes memo fields which can be quite lengthy, with perhaps only one or two words changed. The supervisor needs to be able to spot the changes quickly without have to do a comparative read between the two...
I need to find a way to review and authorise changes to data. New data is submitted by a large group of users, and the database controller needs to see what changes have been made and authorise them. The only, somewhat inelegant, solution I can think of is to have two tables 'original' and...
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