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From: Yves Dhondt on 4 May 2010 15:07 The good news is that there is a dockable find pane in Word 2010 (see http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_office_word/archive/2009/08/11/the-new-find-experience.aspx). The solution for Word 2007 would be to whip up your own custom task pane on which you added a find box. VBA does not support the creation of custom task panes from scratch as far as I know, so you would have to go the VSTO way. Yves "abcd" <abcd(a)abcd.abcd> wrote in message news:hrpbjt$n0o$1(a)speranza.aioe.org... > Jay Freedman wrote: >> To do repeated searches, you can use the dialog to find the first >> occurrence; then close the dialog, and use the double-down-arrow >> button at the bottom of the vertical scroll bar (or its keyboard >> shortcut, Ctrl+PageDown) to find the remaining occurrences. >> > > > That would be a "Dock Search Window" checkbox... >> >> I don't think there's any perfect solution for your other question. > > > That would be as simple as a "Horizontal View Lock" button.... > > > sigh...
From: Yves Dhondt on 4 May 2010 15:09 And suppose the window was dockable, wouldn't the same effect appear? If you are going to sacrifice screen real estate for the find box, it doesn't matter if it is inside or outside the Word application window. Yves "abcd" <abcd(a)abcd.abcd> wrote in message news:hrpbre$n0o$2(a)speranza.aioe.org... > Tim Mastrogiacomo wrote: >> On May 3, 10:30 am, abcd <a...(a)abcd.abcd> wrote: >> >> For your first question, just unmaximize Word and drag the search box >> to a part of your desktop outside of the Word window. The search box >> only moves when a result appears beneath it, so if the search box is >> outside of the document you are searching, it won't move. >> >> >> >> Tim Mastrogiacomo > > Works like a charm if you have a large screen or a twin screen system... > > I have a 17" and if I reduce the size of the the document window I can > barely see the document....
From: Yves Dhondt on 4 May 2010 15:43
Thinking about it some more, I wonder if you couldn't create a 'Find' tab on the ribbon. All you would have to add are a textbox and a couple of buttons and bind those to simple macros (or maybe even directly to the find commands). That way, you wouldn't loose any screen real estate. A good starting place is http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Customize_Ribbon.htm Yves "Yves Dhondt" <yves.dhondt(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:udzLF076KHA.3504(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > The good news is that there is a dockable find pane in Word 2010 (see > http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_office_word/archive/2009/08/11/the-new-find-experience.aspx). > > The solution for Word 2007 would be to whip up your own custom task pane > on which you added a find box. VBA does not support the creation of custom > task panes from scratch as far as I know, so you would have to go the VSTO > way. > > Yves > > "abcd" <abcd(a)abcd.abcd> wrote in message > news:hrpbjt$n0o$1(a)speranza.aioe.org... >> Jay Freedman wrote: >>> To do repeated searches, you can use the dialog to find the first >>> occurrence; then close the dialog, and use the double-down-arrow >>> button at the bottom of the vertical scroll bar (or its keyboard >>> shortcut, Ctrl+PageDown) to find the remaining occurrences. >>> >> >> >> That would be a "Dock Search Window" checkbox... >>> >>> I don't think there's any perfect solution for your other question. >> >> >> That would be as simple as a "Horizontal View Lock" button.... >> >> >> sigh... > |