Word VBA Course Content

Macro and VBA Overview and Basics

• Overview of Word VBA
• Generating code by recording
• The Word Object Model
• The Visual Basic Editor and The Project Explorer
• Creating sub-procedures
• Importance of comments and Printing your code

Manipulating Text

• Insert After/Before
• Selecting text and using the Text property
• Retrieving text from a selection
• Formatting a selection
• Toggling formatting
• Finding and replacing text

Objects, Methods, Properties and Variables

• About objects and collections
• Returning an object
• Working with methods
• Working with properties
• Ranges The Range object
• Ranges and navigation
• The Characters collection
• The Words collection
• The Sentences collection
• The Paragraphs collection
• The Font object
• The Paragraph Format objects
• Declaring and using Variables

Structures

• Variables and constants
• Declaring and typing variables
• Using conditional structures
• Using looping structures

Tracking and Merging Documents

• Using Compare and Merge Documents
• Sending for Review and Tracking changes
• Accepting and Rejecting changes
• Features of the reviewing toolbar
• Saving versions
• Adding Comments

Constructing Templates

• Predefined Word templates
• What can a template contain?
• Saving a document as a template
• Editing and modifying a templates
• Including boilerplate text and styles
• Managing Template Distribuition and Updates

Custom Dialogue Boxes

• Built-in dialog boxes
• Dialog box settings
• Capturing return values
• Dialog box events

Controls

• Overview of Active controls
• Creating user forms
• Adding controls to a user form
• Setting properties
• Creating event procedures
• Displaying a user form
• Dismissing a user form