Microsoft Word 2003 Visual Basic macros

Most of these are essentially identical to the WordBasic 6.0 versions, from which they were converted with little or no additional modifications or enhancements.

Stand-alone macros generally useful within MSWord

Strip extra whitespace from a file

Remove leading, trailing, or internal whitespace from the lines of a file.

 

Embedded control characters

Old archived disk files sometimes contain embedded control characters such as printer control codes.  These macros allow you to manipulate embedded control codes: strip them out, make them visible, convert them to printable characters, or embed new ones. 

 

Carriage returns

Manage carriage returns in a file. Change WordStar soft carriage returns to Word paragraph marks. Remove unwanted extra carriage returns from a file. Easily modified to do other transformations.  

 

Strip backspace characters from a file

Old disk files containing text from modem capture buffer routines often contain embedded backspace characters intermingled with the characters they backspaced over. Example: this^H^Hese. This macro removes the backspace characters and the characters they backspaced over, leaving only the final-form text.

 

Mapdown (strip) parity bits in a file

Yet another routine to zero bit 8 (parity) of all chars in file so all chars have ASCII values < 128. For cleaning up log files of modem sessions.

 

Edit a C or C++ file in MSWord

Makes it easier to edit a C or C++ file in Word. It attaches my CPROGRAM.DOT template to the current document, making its CPP toolbar and macros available, changes the font to Courier New 10 (a monospaced font), and sets the tab stops to 1/3" (4 spaces). One of the macros in CPROGRAM.DOT allows reformatting the entire file for improved readability.

 

Miscellaneous macros

Miscellaneous small macros: AllCapitals makes a selection all capitals; DocMaximizeToggle can be assigned to key F5 so Word toggles Maximize/Restore like the Borland IDE; SETBookmarkTEMP, GOTOBookmarkTEMP, and MoveBlockToBookmarkTEMP moves a currently selected block to bookmark TEMP; Grep does a Grep-like search (well, sort of) within the active document; TabIn tabs in a line or block, using TAB chars; TabOut tabs out a line or block, by removing TAB chars; ScrollTextDown, ScrollTextUp, ScrollToWindowBottom scroll the document window without moving the cursor; QuoteFirstString and ToDatabase do some simple processing of text before importing into a database.

Microsoft Word 2003 Templates:

Each of these pages lists macro code from a Word .dot template and also has a download link for obtaining the template itself. 

CPROGRAM.DOT

A template containing several macros that fix up, reformat, beautify C, C++, and ASM source files.

 

Macros that are parts of other site projects:

AI.DOT

A complex set of macros used by the RECORDS.MDB database project for extracting data from free-form text and transferring it into the correct fields of the database. A few of the subs and functions might have some usefulness in Word macros that are not database-related. Several of them demonstrate methods for using SQL and DDE in WordBasic.