Meet the Controls

re: Meet the Controls

Ziggurattt — Mon, 09 May 2011 22:46:22 GMT

I can't seem to find the "Self-Destruct" property in Word 2007 or 2010? Is it still available?

re: Meet the Controls

Jay Freedman [Word MVP] — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:50:19 GMT

Can you let us know the reason for omitting check boxes and option buttons from the set of content controls? I know I'm going to have to explain it to users in the newsgroups, and so far I don't understand it myself. The legacy ActiveX controls don't work well, especially because they trigger the macro security warning. The legacy Forms check boxes require form protection, and there isn't any option button in that set. I know we could use the dropdown with only Yes/No or On/Off choices, but that seems to be clumsy compared to a check box.

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wrdblog — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:32:02 GMT

Alex - good catch, it looks like the XHTML output was in error. (FWIW, in Word the post looks correct - I promise.) Veikko - This is definitely possible, if you are using Word 2007 and look on the References tab, you can add a Caption to each picture/table (on the Captions group), which will automatically update as the picture's ordinality changes, and use the Cross-Reference button next to Insert Caption to insert a reference to the appropriate chapter. Good idea for a future post. - Tristan

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Veikko Eeva — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 18:31:41 GMT

I wonder if it is possible to make cross reference links easily in the new Word? I'm thinking a situation like if I was writing a book with Word and somewhere in the text I wrote "... as we have seen in the picture 3.3 in chapter 3 XYZ..." and then if the identification -– the number -- of that picture changes, all the references would be updated automatically so that it would say something else instead of "picture 3.3 in chapter 3 XYZ". Also it would be good if all the changes would be highlighted if there was a need to adjust spelling (in morphing linguistic systems). Of course it would be nice if anything could be made an object like that. Or is there a better place to ask something like this? I was actually browsing some information how to achieve this painlessly in Word 2003, in vain thus far. This is a nice blog concerning the new features in Word, very nice indeed. :-)

re: Meet the Controls

Alex — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 07:50:56 GMT

The paragraph after 6 is numbered 1. Not very good demonstration on the use of auto numbering in Word.

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wrdblog — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 19:32:45 GMT

Good question - sorry, I wasn't very clear on that point. What I mean is that (and maybe it wasn't worth mentioning) the control can't start in the middle of one paragraph and end in the middle of another. Does that make more sense? - Tristan

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A User — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 19:06:16 GMT

Sorry, but I can't seem to sort out what you mean by "the control must either contain >1 paragraph; or exactly 1 or more paragraphs."