Mac Forum / Applications / Word / June 2006

Oh, my...  That's one of those things that I thought "everybody knew".

Damn!  I'll see if I can persuade Beth to put it on the Word site.

Yeah, a Microsoft Word Wizard is simply a VBA macro.  The .wiz extension
didn't really catch on, I don't think: I am not sure whether they're still
using it.

A .CAB file is a Microsoft versions of a Zip file.  It has higher
compression and longer internal path names.  The Stuffit Expander can get
them open, the Mac Zip utility can't, last time I looked.

The term "Wizard" supposedly describes an application that puts up a user
form which steps the user through a decision tree of choices on the way to
configuring a result.  Unfortunately, they have digitally-signed the code in
that one, which means we can't get it open in Mac Word to steal their code.
If anyone wants it, I'll see if I can saw it open on the PC :-)

Of course, the wise people in here will realise that not "all" Wizards are
made for Microsoft Word, and the ones that are NOT designed for Word may
include bits of PC active content that definitely won't run on a Mac.

Given that we're all consenting adults in here, I can tell you that it is
usually fine to grab ANY kind of Microsoft template from the Microsoft
Office PC downloads site.  The vast majority will work unchanged in Mac
Office 2004.  Obviously things like Visio templates won't work, and some
bits of the VBA will error.  But most of the templates offered there have no
VBA in them, and even if they do, and even if it won't run on a Mac, the
content part will work just fine.

After our whinging here when Word X came out, Mac BU and the Microsoft
Office Word PC Team forced the Microsoft Office Word download site to
include a test for Mac browsers, and that error page that appears if you go
in to the site from Safari or FireFox.  The whole purpose of the error page
is simply to explain to Mac Users how to go about getting the content anyway

If you go in from a PC, the site is fully automatic if you have a licensed
version of Office -- it automatically installs the wizards in the correct
folder.  On The Mac, we have to do that bit ourselves; but that's not too
hard because a Save As out of Word 2004 will only put a template in one
place :-)

It is, however, important to do a Save As and not a re-name to get the file
into My Templates, because Word 2004 won't use the result if it doesn't have
the correct Mac Type and Creator codes correctly in the file.

Cheers

On 24/6/06 1:34 PM, in article C0C200D4.D62A8%berkowit@spoof_silcom.com,

Oh, what a pain.  It's trying to call PrivateProfileString...  That should
"work" on the Mac.

Hang about, I'll see if I can fix it...

On 25/6/06 11:36 AM, in article
1151199415.528898.131080@c74g2000cwc.googlegroups.com, "Ramblingman"
<wingsley@yahoo.com> wrote:

Here you go:  Fixed.  I have removed the digital signature so you can edit
the code to suit yourself.

Oh, sod it: it's too big for the newsgroup.  Here, click this link to get it
from my server:
http://public.jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/Agenda%20Wizard.dot.sitx

The original coders have done a lovely job with this one: this is a
commercial-grade VBA application (many of the templates offered in Microsoft
Downloads are hacked together by Code Cowboys who would stand your hair on
end, but this one was put together by a professional...)

However, since they did not foresee cross-platform use, they did not
initialise the location of the settings file called by PrivateProfileString.

I have added a hash-if statement that does this.  The code should now run on
both Windows and Mac and do the right thing in both.

It saves its settings in Users/<user name>/Library/Preferences/Microsoft
folder.

Cheers

On 25/6/06 11:36 AM, in article
1151199415.528898.131080@c74g2000cwc.googlegroups.com, "Ramblingman"
<wingsley@yahoo.com> wrote: