Microsoft Word 6.0 WordBasic macros

In the code listings, the heading of each section is the macro's name; the text just after is the short descriptive text that you can put in the description field of Word's "Macros" dialog box, and everything after is the code. 

Stand-alone macros generally useful within MSWord

All these pages contain code listings of macros from my Normal.dot, but there's no point providing my Normal.dot template here. Create your own macros and paste the provided code into them.

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 6.0 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.

 

HELPFILE.DOT template

Provides a starting point for building the .RTF file used by the Help Compiler to create a Windows 3.1-style WinHelp file. It contains a macro that partially automates the creation of the footnotes that are required. Has both Word 6.0 and Word 2003 versions.

 

Macros that are parts of other site projects:

AI.DOT

Code listings of 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. The AI.DOT template itself is in the RECORDS.MDB project download package.