glossary

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adrian

Hi all,

I am wanting to create some code that will create a
glossary at the end of a Word 2000 doc.

Below is how I propose to do it, can anyone tell me if
this seems a sensible way to tackle it, or if there is a
better way.

Create a folder containing separate docs, each with a word
that needs to appear in the glossary along with its
explanation.Each saved using the word as the filename.

When the code is run:-
Code then identifies the filenames in the folder and goes
looking for each word in turn, in the report, if present
it inserts the doc with that filename into the glossary
section of the finished report.

If this is the way to go about it, any tips for the code
would be gratefully appreciated.

Thank you.

Adrian
 
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Word Heretic

G'day "adrian" <[email protected]>,

to be ideal you can do a few more tweaks:

make each instance of the word in the doc a hyperlinked x-ref to the
entry.

Style each instance of the word in Glossary char style for a) XML
tagging and b) 3rd party proggies like those from www.vmtech.com



adrian said:
Hi all,

I am wanting to create some code that will create a
glossary at the end of a Word 2000 doc.

Below is how I propose to do it, can anyone tell me if
this seems a sensible way to tackle it, or if there is a
better way.

Create a folder containing separate docs, each with a word
that needs to appear in the glossary along with its
explanation.Each saved using the word as the filename.

When the code is run:-
Code then identifies the filenames in the folder and goes
looking for each word in turn, in the report, if present
it inserts the doc with that filename into the glossary
section of the finished report.

If this is the way to go about it, any tips for the code
would be gratefully appreciated.

Thank you.

Adrian
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Adrian

G'day Steve,

Thanks for that Steve but you have totally lost me mate.

In very simple terms????????

Adrian
 
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Word Heretic

G'day "Adrian" <[email protected]>,

If an instance of a glossary term is hyperlinked to the glossary,
online doc users get to insta-look-up the word.

If it is styled with character style "Glossary", a number of third
party add-ons add extra richness to the result.

However, I would store all glossary words in a single flat text file
called Glossary Terms which I would search for first in the current
doc dir, then probably the Tools dir.



Adrian said:
G'day Steve,

Thanks for that Steve but you have totally lost me mate.

In very simple terms????????

Adrian
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Steve Hudson

Word Heretic, Sydney, Australia
Tricky stuff with Word or words for you.
Email: [email protected]
Products: http://www.geocities.com/word_heretic/products.html
Spellbooks: 728 pages of dump left and dropping...

The VBA Beginner's Spellbook: For all VBA users.
 
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