Re: Any VBA folks out there?

[Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>]

When I needed some Word VBA help a couple of years ago I got it here:

http://windowssecrets.com/forums/forumdisplay.php/20-Word-Processing

On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Mike Starr <mike -at- writestarr -dot- com> wrote:
> I'm working on a project in Word 2010 and I need some VBA assistance. I'm
> using legacy text fields formatted as numbers and I need to do some
> calculations based on the values in these fields. I would have used content
> controls but firstly I started in Word 2003 and secondly I've got all this
> stuff in tables and the content controls are bigger than the space I have
> allocated in the table cells (although I have to admit I really don't have
> any experience with content controls). Anyway, each text field has a
> bookmark name and I have them set up to execute a macro when exited. What I
> don't know how to do is how to actually write the VBA that does this sort of
> stuff with bookmarked text fields. I've got a draft of how I want the
> calculations to occur, using the bookmark names but think I need to embed
> that in more sophisticated VBA. Anyone got a bit of time tonight (Saturday)
> or anytime tomorrow (Sunday) to take a look at what I've got and tell me how
> I need to modify it to actually make it work? I'm also going to post this on
> a couple STC mailing lists. Thanks much.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Mike
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