Mac Forum / Applications / Word / May 2008

I thought MS had announced a shorted development cycle??

Corentin

Hi Phil,

Microsoft has targeted 2 year cycles for Office and Windows for many
years. But the future is always a moving target. By those standards
Vista was more than 4 years late.

I think the most realistic way to phrase it is that a timetable will be
developed internally based on guesstimates as to how long it will take
to build a new VBA compiler.

Combine that with any new features that might be being planned for the
next version and however long those will take and hopefully you'll
realize that coming up with any sort of a firm date is nearly impossible.

Plan, build, test, deploy. Each of those steps takes an indeterminate
amount of time. Deciding when software is "done" is akin to deciding
when a cake is done. When it smells good and tastes good it's ready.

-Jim

i microsoft.public.mac.office.word skrev Daiya Mitchell
Sun, 18 May 2008 06:54:17 -0400 (-), i en artikel med
ID <#Cf9DWNuIHA.3604@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>
og titlen "Re: VBA to return in the next version of Office Mac !?",
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Hi

No I havn't, see, my use of macros in word just might be very
idiosyncratic and then there's the question about coding quality: i'm
pretty far from being a programming whiz but you be the judge, would
eg. these hold an interest for other people (beware of linebreaks) ?

1. Toogle highlight on the selection or the whole line. Chose among
some predetermined highlightcolors.

2.  Find the first occurence of a specially named bookmark from the
current ip to the end of the doc (if found go to said bookmark and
delete it) OR insert a bookmark at the current ip and highlight the
selection/line.

(yep I like highlighting stuff)

1. Toogle Highlight etc.
======
tell application "Microsoft Word"
 
  if selection's selection type = selection ip then
     expand the selection by a line item
     -- chop off the paragraph mark
     set r to create range active document start ¬
        (selection's selection start) end ((selection's selection end)
- 1)
     collapse range text object of selection direction collapse start
     my highlightChange(r)
  else
     -- again chop off some superfluous chars
     if (content of selection) ends with " " or (content of selection)
ends with return then
        set selection's selection end to ((selection's selection end)
- 1)
     end if
     
     my highlightChange(text object of selection)
     collapse range text object of selection direction collapse end
  end if
end tell

on highlightChange(range)
  tell application "Microsoft Word"
     if highlight color index of range = no highlight then      
        set highlight color index of range to (my PickFarve())
     else
        set highlight color index of range to no highlight
     end if
  end tell
end highlightChange

on PickFarve()
  set FarveListe to {"blue", "turquoise", "bright green", "violet", ¬
     "yellow", "green", "pink"}
 
  set FarveKoder to {2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11, 12}
 
  set the farve to (choose from list the FarveListe with prompt "Vælg
en farve:") as Unicode text
  if farve is "false" then error number -128
 
  repeat with i from 1 to the count of FarveListe
     set denne_her to item i of the FarveListe
     if denne_her is the farve then
        set the opslagsKode to i
        exit repeat
     end if
  end repeat
  return item opslagsKode of FarveKoder
 
end PickFarve

====

2. Insert/go to bookmark

tell application "Microsoft Word"
 
  -- fra IP/markeringen + 1 og frem
  set r to (create range active document start ((selection's selection
end) + 1) ¬
     end (end of content of text object of active document))
  try
     set bmk to first item of (get every bookmark of r whose name
contains "MARK")
     set bmkRange to text object of bmk
     select bmkRange
     
     tell selection
        set highlight color index of text object to auto
        collapse range (text object of selection) direction collapse
start
     end tell
     
     delete bookmark (name of bmk) of active document
     
  on error
     -- ingen bogmærker med navnet mark. Opret et i markeringen
     -- der kan dog være "MARK" bogmærker tidl. i dokumentet    
     if not (exists (bookmark "MARK" of active document)) then
        set bmkNavn to "MARK"
     else
        set i to 1
        repeat
           if not (exists (bookmark ("MARK" & i) of active document))
then
              set bmkNavn to "MARK" & i
              exit repeat
           end if
           
           set i to 1 + 1
        end repeat
     end if
     
     tell selection
        if selection type = selection ip then expand by a line item
        set selection end to ((selection end) - 1)
        set highlight color index of text object to violet
     end tell
     
     make new bookmark at selection with properties {name:bmkNavn,
text object:(text object of selection)}
     collapse range (text object of selection) direction collapse start
     
  end try
 
end tell

i microsoft.public.mac.office.word skrev John McGhie
Sun, 18 May 2008 21:26:01 +0930 (-), i en artikel med
ID <C4564F69.15180%john@mcghie.name>
og titlen "Re: VBA to return in the next version of Office Mac !?",
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Hi again

Well you know I just skimmed through some of the VBA code I've been
collecting (amazing how much stuff you collect) and there're some
with your name on it ... and I wouldn't say that at all.

Thanks for the explanation. It would seem .net have some nice
features, although I doubt that I will ever find an application for the
kind of features you mention in the last three paragraphs :).

I see, so it's not unrealistic to hope for some sort of automated
conversion between VBA and .Net: that's just sweet music in my ears.

I see your point of view: yes the closest possible integration between
Mac & Win office is important.

Could be (and it wouldn't be the first time, especially if you add
"when there's no particular reason for doing so" :)  but in this
instance it does allow for some nice customized dialogs here and
there I think.