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Word Perfect Macros to Word 2K or 2003
I have a doctors office with about 15-20 macros they have in word perfect. They use them to extract patient name and address from the address book. They do this to write letters explaining the patient office visit to the referring doctor. Are there any tools to make this much easier than a complete re-write of each macro?
They are an eye doctor and surgeon. They also have some macros for determining occular measurements and such. but that is a lot more complicated and I don't expect that to work. Does any one know of a Dr's office macro set for sale or whatever? Thanks Rich -- Just an OF who is learning more each day and really enjoys life |
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Word Perfect Macros to Word 2K or 2003
I don't know much about Word Perfect but with a change to Word you are going
to have to rethink strategies for producing documents. For extracting information from an address book - using Outlook for that address book - you may find http://www.gmayor.com/Macrobutton.htm useful. However what you described seems more like mail merge in Word - see http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm. If you have more specific questions I am sure that we can come up with solutions. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org RichNRockvilleMD wrote: I have a doctors office with about 15-20 macros they have in word perfect. They use them to extract patient name and address from the address book. They do this to write letters explaining the patient office visit to the referring doctor. Are there any tools to make this much easier than a complete re-write of each macro? They are an eye doctor and surgeon. They also have some macros for determining occular measurements and such. but that is a lot more complicated and I don't expect that to work. Does any one know of a Dr's office macro set for sale or whatever? Thanks Rich |
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Word Perfect Macros to Word 2K or 2003
Graham has answered your specific question. However, to help you rethink
your strategies, here is some: General Info on moving from Word Perfect to Word: Word and Word Perfect work very differently from one another. Each program's methods have strengths and weaknesses; but, if you try to use one of these programs as if it were the other, it is like pushing on a string! You can easily make a lot of extra work for yourself. If you are unwilling to take the time to learn to use Word's methods, you should stick to using Word Pad. You'll have a lot less grief, although you'll miss out on a lot of raw power. See http://www.addbalance.com/word/wordperfect.htm http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...ordPerfect.htm http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...AndGotchas.htm http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/RevealCodes.htm http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...Converters.htm http://businesssoft.about.com/comput.../blconvert.htm for information on Word for Word Perfect users. For mo http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Custom...platePart2.htm http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Custom...platePart1.htm http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Number...gExplained.htm http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Custom...latesStore.htm In Word 2000 (or later) You can get the function keys to display in a special toolbar at the bottom of the screen if you want (something like pressing F3 twice in WP). The following macro will do this. Sub ShowMeFunctionKeys() Commandbars("Function Key Display").Visible = True End Sub Word's Extend key (F8) gives something similar to block processing. Learn about Styles - really learn! http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm I resisted for years and now regret every day of those years because although that string was still very hard to push, it kept getting longer and longer, and had some very important projects tied to it! Once you understand styles and the Word concept of organizing things into Chinese boxes everything falls into place and instead of pushing a string, you can push a button that turns on the very powerful text processing machine known as Microsoft Word and it will start doing your work for you instead of running around behind you trying to undo what you just thought you did. Finally, in WP a lot of people use macros to hold chunks of text - boilerplate. In Word this function is filled by Templates, AutoText and AutoCorrect, not macros. Follow the links at http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebre...s.htm#AutoText for more information on these tools. It's a lot of reading, I know. It's OK to chunk it down and do a bit each day, but I would recommend that you make it a top priority to do that bit each day. You can use FILLIN and ASK fields or UserForms to query the user. For some form documents, Word's "online forms" work very well. For more about online forms, follow the links at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...nTheBlanks.htm especially Dian Chapman's series of articles. As for converting documents from Word Perfect to use in Word... In a word, don't plan on it. I would not recommend using converted documents long-term. They will be filled with formatting anomolies that will get you at the worst time. This is especially true of any documents containing automatic numbering or bullets. Try recreating form documents in Word using the following process: In Word Perfect (if you still have it, in Word if not) save your files as text files. Use your converted files as references to show you how you want your formatting to look. Create a new document in Word and insert the text from the text file. Save this new document as a Word template. Format it the way you want using styles, not direct formatting. Save it again. To use a template within Word, use File = New and pick your template. This will create a new document for you. General practice in WP is to have a document and copy and edit it to create a new document. This is not good practice in Word. In Word, construct a good, tight, template for your documents and use that template when constructing new documents. Among other things, this can avoid embarrassing "metadata" http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/metadata.htm and things like surprise headers and footers from creeping into new documents. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "RichNRockvilleMD" wrote in message ... I have a doctors office with about 15-20 macros they have in word perfect. They use them to extract patient name and address from the address book. They do this to write letters explaining the patient office visit to the referring doctor. Are there any tools to make this much easier than a complete re-write of each macro? They are an eye doctor and surgeon. They also have some macros for determining occular measurements and such. but that is a lot more complicated and I don't expect that to work. Does any one know of a Dr's office macro set for sale or whatever? Thanks Rich -- Just an OF who is learning more each day and really enjoys life |
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