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From: Jay Freedman on 23 Feb 2010 12:21
The "script editor" is the wrong place. It isn't the same as the macro
editor. Look at http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm for instructions
on opening the editor.

But.... WARNING!! If you don't know what you're looking at, you stand a
good chance of breaking it completely. Don't just poke around! If you know
who created the template and the macros, take it back to them to fix it. If
you don't have access to that person, find someone with experience in
creating and modifying macros. This is NOT a good place to learn on the job.

Martin wrote:
> Jay,
>
> Manyt thanks for your reply.
> It helped a lot.
>
> Although the part one didn't seem to work.
> I even went into the script editor and couldn't see too much in there
> or it might have been in there and I didn't save it properly.
>
> Is there something I can look at about 'then probably the macro is
> capitalizing the text before it inserts the result in the letter' ?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Martin
>
>
> "Jay Freedman" wrote:
>
>> Martin, that template has one or more macros that display the boxes
>> and then put your information into the letter. There are two
>> possibilities -- either of which should be fixed by whoever is
>> responsible for creating and maintaining the template.
>>
>> One possibility is that the information is placed into "fields"
>> (that's a technical term) in the letter, and that one field may have
>> a "formatting switch" that makes it display caps. Right-click
>> somewhere in that text -- does the popup menu include the choice
>> "Toggle Field Codes"? If it's there, click it. Now you'll see a pair
>> of bold curly braces with some code inside. If the code includes
>> \* Upper
>> remove that part of the code, then right-click again and choose
>> Update Field. If that works, then the template needs to be changed
>> the same way. (See http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm
>> for more about this.)
>>
>> If there isn't a field there, or if there is a field but it doesn't
>> contain a formatting switch, then probably the macro is capitalizing
>> the text before it inserts the result in the letter. I'm not going
>> to attempt to tell you how to fix that; take it back to where you
>> got the template and complain.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Jay Freedman
>> Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
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>> newsgroup so all may benefit.
>>
>> Martin wrote:
>>> Not entirely sure what you mean.
>>> When I open word there is a button on the toolbar that says TCH
>>> LETTER. When I click this it opens a load of input boxes. I type in
>>> each box and then it loads the letter template with various bits
>>> fillled in. Now one of these lines is in caps but when I go to see
>>> if it is in all caps it isn't and also when I click on the line and
>>> type in manually it doesn't appear in caps.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>>
>>> "Peter T. Daniels" wrote:
>>>
>>>> What do you mean by "in the formatting"? Templates don't have
>>>> formatting, only the styles in them. Is the style of the empty
>>>> paragraph you see when you start a New document (most likely
>>>> Normal) set to All Caps?
>>>>
>>>> If it is, you'll see capitals almost everywhere, because most
>>>> styles are "based on" Normal.
>>>>
>>>> Just Modify the Normal (or whichever) style to put it back to,
>>>> well, normal. (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-S, select Normal (or whichever),
>>>> right-click, choose Modify, Format > Font)
>>>>
>>>> On Feb 18, 9:53 am, MartinStorey <Mar...(a)discussions.microsoft.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> All,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a word template that wont turn off from caps.
>>>>> In the formatting it isn't set to all caps. Is there anywhere else
>>>>> that can be set?
>>>>> This is driving me nuts.
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> Martin
>>>>
>>>> .
>>
>>
>> .


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