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Question to anyone please. Our firm uses "players list" to keep track of
key people on any given project, it's usually a 4 to 5 column table, listing
Last Name (for alphabetizing), Contact Info (for name and mailing address),
Tel/Fax, and Relationship. This also aids in ease of printing envelopes for
the many cc's we do. All we do is click in the cell with the mailing info,
click the "envelope button" and the address appears in the dialog box and we
just click "Print Envelope" and we're good to go.



One of the girls in the office has a problem with one of her lists and I
cannot locate any hidden formatting issues that may be causing the problem.
When she clicks in the cell with the address and clicks the envelope button,
nothing is carried forward into the dialog box for the address. If the
whole address is highlighted, the only thing that appears in the dialog box
after the envelope button is clicked is the name of the contact, no address
info.



Can anyone shed any light on this for me?



All info is appreciated.

Marcia

 

[Anne Troy]

Marcia: Someone has surely customized this application for you, and probably
in VBA code. I would open the document or template and hit Alt+F11.
Double-click the different objects on the left-hand side under your
document's name. You may find some code in there and, if your company
(presumably) paid to have that code made or had someone in a different
department create it, perhaps their name and contact info is in that code.
It would show in green text. The only suggestion I have to get rid of the
problem otherwise, is that this user's normal.dot may have become corrupt.
To find out how to fix that, do Step 3 here:

http://www.theofficeexperts.com/word.htm#TroubleshootingWord

If Step 3 doesn't help, then I would rename the normal.dot back the way it
was (first deleting the new normal.dot that gets created), and at least
you're back to square one.
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Hope this helps!
Anne Troy (better known as Dreamboat)
Author: Dreamboat on Word
Email: Dreamboat*at*Piersontech.com
Web: www.TheOfficeExperts.com
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[Charles Kenyon]

Hi,

Try copying your user's problem list to someone else's computer and see if
they have the same problem. If so, the problem is the styles applied to the
text in your table. The envelope wizard looks for text in certain styles. If
that is the case, look at a document that does work and see what styles are
used. Apply those styles in your problem document.

Otherwise, your user can use the workaround that I did when I ran into this
problem: After selecting the text press Ctrl-C to put it on the clipboard.
When the envelope wizard is up if the address isn't there, press Ctrl-V to
paste.
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Charles Kenyon

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See also the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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[Charles Kenyon]

Hi Anne,

This isn't customized, it is how the envelope wizard works. Sometimes it
seems a bit flaky, though. See my response to Marcia for more.
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Charles Kenyon

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[msnews.microsoft.com]

Thanks Anne,

I will try that shortly and let you know what I discover. I appreciate
the help and information.

Marcia

 

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Thanks Charles ... the style was the kicker. I selected all, then went to
Style and applied Normal style, then tried the envelope button and what do
you know ... the address was where it was supposed to be.

Thank you SO much for that great tid bit. I have learned my new thing for
the day ... my question now is, can I go home?

 

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Anne and Charles ... I tried both of your suggestions. Anne, yours was much
more over my head than I really wanted to go this afternoon and conveniently
Charles' suggestion about the Style fixed the problem.

Much thanks to you both.
Marcia

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Only if I can, too! <g>

You are welcome. I think it was Graham Mayor who tipped me to the importance
of the styles.
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Charles Kenyon

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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide)
<URL: http://addbalance.com/usersguide/index.htm>

See also the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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Charles,

Since you've become an immediate valuable resource to me. What can you
share with me about Table of Contents feature. Currently our office uses
Word 2000 9.0 (various letters). I have never used the TOC feature and am
discovering that with more frequent Law Court briefs and First Circuit
briefs requiring a TOC, it may be worth my while to learn this feature
correctly.

Can you assist or point me in the right direction?

Thanks,
Marcia

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It's better to start a new thread when you start a new topic.

See these articles:

How to create a table of contents in Microsoft Word
http://www.ShaunaKelly.com/word/toc/CreateATOC.html

Customizing your table of contents with switches
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TOCSwitches.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[msnews.microsoft.com]

Thanks Suzanne,

Before I embarassed myself globally, I figured I'd try to tap Charles'
knowledge bank first.

I'll send a new post shortly, in the meantime I will check the links
provided.

Marcia

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Any post to this forum is a public post; it is not directed to any specific
person.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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