Re: [OT] Anyone here a MS Word Expert?

"nik Simpson" <nik_s@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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CatNipped wrote:
My company has come out with new standards for the reports we send to
clients. Instead of "Times New Roman" or "CG Times" fonts we now have to
use "Arial". So for any (100+ page) reports that we use as a template we
have to make sure all the fonts are now "Arial" - even the headers and
footers.

I've created a macro that will change all fonts in the body of the
letter, but the global find and replace does not change any of the
headers and footers (and we may have as many as 50 separate headers).
Needless to say, this makes it impossible to run the macro just once - I
have to "View/Header and Footer", run the macro, hit "next" on the
header/footer toolbar and run the macro, hit "next" on the header/footer
toolbar and run the macro, etc.

Does anyone here know how to do a global find and replace that will
change all headers and footers as well as the text in the body of the
document?



Which version of Office? With 2003, you can use the Styles & Formatting
menu from the "Format" menu. This display a list of styles used in the
document. Select the style you want to change, and from the drop down menu
select "Modify Style". Select the new font you want the style to use, then
check the "Automatically update" box, and any text in the document with
that style will get the new font.

For a more long term solution find the document template that you use
(default is "normal.dot") open, then use the Modify Style menu again, but
down at the bottom make sure you select "All styles" in the show menu.
Select the styles that you use, make the changes and save normal.dot (make
sure you save it as a dot, not a doc file, and you should be good to go
for all future documents.

--
Nik Simpson

Thanks, Nik, but I've already got the macro created in Visual Basic so I
don't have to go through the document manually and change each font and
size. The problem is that when the macro loops through the headers and
footers, as soon as it gets to an empty header or footer the macro stops
running and all the headers and footers after that don't get changed. It's
driving me nuts because all the research I've done just gives me the answer,
"it can't be done" - I don't like that answer! ;>

Hugs,

CatNipped


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