Where can I find more
information
about Microsoft Word
on the Web?
This page last revised: 13 Jul 2006 07:21:34 -0500 .
This page last revised: 13 Jul 2006 07:21:34 -0500 .
Other (more extensive) FAQ pages, MVP web sites, and other sources of information:
- Joint collaborative effort of the Word MVPs - the MVP FAQ
- MVP Individual Websites
- Another listing about MVPs and their websites
- Templates
- Tutorials
- Mail Merge
- Word Fields
- Word Forms
- Styles in Microsoft Word
- AutoText - AutoCorrect - AutoFormat - AutoFormat as you Type
- Word Perfect and Word
- Word Tips
- Legal Users' Guide
- Payne Consulting Group
- Document Recovery Services
- Brainbench Certification and Testing
- Newsletters
- WOPR - Woody's Office Watch
- News Groups
- Microsoft Corporation
- Service Releases
- Books about Microsoft Word and VBA
- VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) (macros)
- Misc. - Easter Eggs anyone?
- Information about this FAQ
Links to the collaborative effort of the Word MVPs
MVP Site Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) indices:
UserForms
(Note: Userforms are not document or template forms
in Word, they are custom dialog boxes that use VBA.)
What's New on the MVP site?
The following link is to a page listing all pages in the
Word MVP FAQ site
(no links, but titles and URLs):
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQURLsAndTitles.txt
(Two sections: About Templates - Templates for Download or Purchase)
 | Template Basics - What is a template? User Templates, Workgroup Templates, Global Templates, Tabs for File => New |
| Create a Template Part 1 - Suzanne S. Barnhill, MVP |
| Create a Template Part 2 - John McGhie, MVP |
| What Do Templates and Add-Ins Store? by Dave Rado, MVP |
| Microsoft Word Templates by John C. Hill - a class handout at University of Virgina - a basic starting place - introduction to templates |
| Achieve a Uniform Look With Ease Using Microsoft Word Templates by Eric H. Steele (ABA) |
| Keystroke Shortcuts by Bob Blacksberg |
| Keyboard Shortcut Organizer - free utility |
| Microsoft Word Support - Modifying
Templates, Customizing
Toolbars and Menus, Watermarks |
| Template Manager -
commercial product for managing templates in networked environment |
| Getting to templates using a menu |
| Hyperlinks to templates that
create new documents instead of opening the template |
| Word Documents and Templates by Bill Coan, MVP |
(don't forget the MVP listing) (don't forget the Downloads on this site)
Microsoft Template Gallery Page (thanks to Suzanne S. Barnhill for link)
Google search (thanks to garfield-not-odie for this link)
American Psychological Association web site
MLA Template - building instructions
http://ccl.english.ohio-state.edu/handouts/miscellaneous/word_advanced_formatting_pc.htm
Basic Letterhead template - using user properties, styles,
different headers and footers, and styleref fields.
http://www.addbalance.com/word/download.htmGeneral templates
http://www.todaytemplates.com/news/microsoft-word-templates.html
http://www.cegos.gr/Greek/Stages/Word%20GR/
Word_niv_II_templates.html (one line)
http://www.solersys.com/Cardiology_Templates_for_
Microsoft_Word.htm (one line)
http://www.microsoft.com/education/tutorial/
classroom/o2k/default.asp (one line)
Squibb Planning Book #8 Lesson Plan:
http://viking.stark.k12.oh.us/~orchard/Templates4Teachers/
wordtemplates.htm (one line)
http://www.okidata.com/sbrc/html/nf/Temps.html (Okidata download)
Invoice: http://www.geocities.com/krweaver/invblank.xls
(right-click to download target)See also: KMT commercial add-ins (OfficeReady)
Business Cards
Downloads Two different formats using document property fields to hold information and styles for formatting. One is three-part with graphic, other is straight text.
http://www.cc.utah.edu/~wake/msword/word_pet_templates/
word_pet_templates.html (one line)
| http://www.infoware.ca/content/legalext.html |
| http://www.infoware.ca/content/free.html |
| Federal Court http://www.infoware.ca/content/fedcourt.shtml |
| Public Defender Payment Voucher
- (Wisconsin) Summary cover sheet with five time sheets. Extensive use of tables, cross-references, calculated fields. Public Defender Transcript Request Form - (Wisconsin) (based on printed form - wild layout of fields using tables, some use of bookmarks, use of exit macros to control tab order. |
| FindLaw Forms Collections and Forms Indexes - many free, some commercial, some Word format, most PDF |
Word 97:
| http://home1.gte.net/racesale/wscript.htm |
| http://www.winsite.com/cgi-bin/dload/XX/win95/winword/fd98.exe |
| http://www1.pcworld.com/software_lib/data/articles/business/1633.html |
Word 2000:
| http://home.earthlink.net/~magicant/MagicScript2000.htm |
| http://www.wga.org/tools/ScriptSoftware/ |
contributed by Martin http://www.brainbench.com
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Web
Resources for Microsoft Word Contents Go to Microsoft Word Downloads page
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On this site:
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Advanced
Word Processing TopicsThe MVP FAQ site:Don't forget the individual sites of the MVPs VBA tutorials listed above Calculations in Word Tables
Teaching Computers to Children - Microsoft WordCreating Mathematics Using Microsoft Word
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Resources for Microsoft Word Contents Go to Microsoft Word Downloads page
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Word Fields
and Mail Merge
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| Microsoft Support - Fields Reference - this is a great place to get a handle on fields or find a field. Organized by category and by field. | ||||||||||||
| Microsoft Support - Fields Switches | ||||||||||||
| The mailmerge.fields newsgroup on the Microsoft news server. | ||||||||||||
| MVP FAQ index Fields | ||||||||||||
| Repeating Data - entering once and having it show up elsewhere! by Greg Maxey, MVP | ||||||||||||
| Fields Revealed by Sherry Kappel of Microsystems. | ||||||||||||
| Formatting Word Fields with switches by Graham Mayor, MVP | ||||||||||||
| How to hide a "Print" command button on a Form so that it doesn't print by Ibby | ||||||||||||
| Microsoft MailMerge Resource Center - MS site | ||||||||||||
| Cindy Meister's Articles from Office Developer
(now OfficeVBA) Magazine:
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** These articles are on a subscribers'-only site. However, you can sign up for a free issue and get 30 days on-line privileges.
| Mail Merge FAQ - MVP site |
| Mail Merge Labels with Word XP by Graham Mayor, MVP |
| Convert Labels into a Data Source by Graham Mayor, MVP |
| MailMerge Graphics by Graham Mayor, MVP |
| Express Mailmerges in Word 2002 by Suzanne Barnhill, MVP |
| How to Create A Mail Merge by Beth Melton, MVP and Dave Rado, MVP |
| Individual Merge Letters by Graham Mayor, MVP |
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Making
Your MailMerge Intelligent using IF Fields by Dave Rado, MVP |
| Turning Word into a Pseudo-Database Using Mail Merge Query Options by Dave Rado, MVP |
| How to do a mail merge to the printer using VBA, without displaying the Print dialog by Ibby, MVP |
| Microsoft Webcast - MailMerge Basics - 45 minutes |
| Microsoft Webcast - Intermediate MailMerge - 45 minutes |
| Working With Field Codes - Cindy Meister (part of her FAQ on Mail Merge) possibly included in her series of articles above - haven't analyzed |
| Page X of Y bugs and Workarounds |
| How to Control Page Numbering in a Word Document by Bill Coan, MVP. Using Fields for Page Numbering - Much more Control - and see also... |
| How to insert the filename and path on the last page of a document, such that it will be updated automatically if the filename or path changes by Bill Coan, MVP. |
| Keyboard shortcuts for manipulating fields and dates by Charles Kenyon |
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Customizing
Your Table of Contents with Switches by Suzanne S. Barnhill, MVP. |
| The {=} Field - Formula Field - Documentation on MS site |
| The {IF} Field - Comparison Field - Documentation on MS site |
| MacroButton Fields - not
just for macros anymore! by Charles Kenyon |
| Using MacroButton Fields by Graham Mayor, Jonathan West and Hak-lok NG |
| Using {MacroButton} fields to insert information from the Outlook Address Book into documents such as letters by Graham Mayor, MVP |
| Toggling Data Display Using MacroButton Fields by Greg Maxey, MVP |
| Instant Envelopes Using the MacroButton Field and VBA by Dian Chapman, MVP |
| Field Macros - Greg Maxey's page on using vba to manipulate fields |
| Using Addin Fields by Hak-lok NG - this is virtually the only documentation available for these fields which accept / hold data which is not visible to the user (like document variables) - they can only be set or read using VBA |
| StyleRef Field Tutorial - two-page download |
| Useful StyleRef Field Tricks - Suzanne Barnhill, MVP |
| Using Styles in Letterhead and in Headers and Footers by Charles Kenyon - StyleRef field |
| Letterhead Textboxes and Styles Tutorial - two page download demonstrating StyleRef and Author fields, among other things |
| IncludeText Field Tutorial - Ten-page, three-document tutorial with IncludeText links demonstrating switches, interaction of styles, and use of hidden Page field for continuous page numbering of separate documents. Also demonstrates the weird behavior of headers / footers in source document. |
| Macro to replicate contents of a CheckBox formfield in place of { REF } field - download the Checkboxes Tutorial |
| Greg Maxey's guide to inputting and using fields |
| Macro to update all fields in a document, including those in headers and footers. |
| Conditional Drop-Down Form Fields |
| Microsoft Knowledge Base:
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| Date Fields - Calculated - Advanced
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| Calculated Dates - zip file - a Word document by Macropod |
| How
to Add Pop-Up Lists to Any Word Document So You Can Click Your Way Through
Changes in Seconds (or how to use the AutoTextList field) by Bill Coan, MVP. | ||||||||||||||
| Checkboxes Tutorial - Add-In - Examines different kinds of checkboxes, allows putting active checkboxes in a document / template that is not protected for forms. | ||||||||||||||
| Word Field Calculations - you have to see this to believe it - manipulate fields to get what you want - by Macropod | ||||||||||||||
| Sample Forms
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| Sample Templates using fields
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Resources for Microsoft Word Contents Go to Microsoft Word Downloads page
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Word Forms (see also Fields)Note that Word uses the term "Form" to mean a document in which
only selected
portion(s) of the document can be edited. When you say "form" you may also be talking about a "Template" which is what Word uses to produce new documents based on a sample. See Template Basics for more on that (extensive) subject. To get information from Word help about Word's forms, use the
The following links are about the Word kind of Form as well as
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