Re saving macros problem

[kaye123]

I just received a reply from Lisa. I was waiting for an email so it is
month old.
I am obviously having problems saving my macro on some documents a
stated below. I need to read up on my problem . What questions should
ask please? I use a macro to change footnotes in word.
regard

 

[Stefan Blom]

Since you have replied to an old thread, I see your post out of context
(because I'm using an NNTP newsreader where older messages get deleted
regularly).

In what way do you want to change the footnotes in Word? Which version of
Word are you using?

 

[Lisa Wilke-Thissen]

Hi Stefan,

"Stefan Blom" wrote

Since you have replied to an old thread,
I see your post out of context

As I don't understand exactly Kaye's problem, here the discussion:

Active post from kaye123:

[Word 2013]

I am obviously having problems saving
my macro on some documents as stated
below. I need to read up on my problem.
What questions should I ask please?
I use a macro to change footnotes in word.

Original question from 26. Sept. 2013:


My answer from 26. Sept. 2013:

 

[Stefan Blom]

Lisa,

I remember those posts (from you and kaye123) in a completely different
thread (with the subject "Losing italics in my footnotes").

We have to wait for kaye123 to give us more information...

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Hi Stefan,

"Stefan Blom" wrote

Since you have replied to an old thread, I see your post out of context

As I don't understand exactly Kaye's problem, here the discussion:

Active post from kaye123:

[Word 2013]

I am obviously having problems saving my macro on some documents as
stated below. I need to read up on my problem. What questions should I
ask please? I use a macro to change footnotes in word.

Original question from 26. Sept. 2013:


My answer from 26. Sept. 2013:

 

[kaye123]

;494862']Since you have replied to an old thread, I see your post out o
context
(because I'm using an NNTP newsreader where older messages get deleted
regularly).

In what way do you want to change the footnotes in Word? Which versio
of
Word are you using?

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Hello Stephan and Lisa
Using Word 2010 Win 32 bit
Can I start again because I have been doing some trouble shootin
although I am not sure I can make my problem clear. I have had a macr
for footnotes and I was using it trouble free. It is still in globa
templates. It was just a margin setting in footnotes. I have a lot o
add ons because I have endnote citation software that opens with Word.
1. My main problem was that I have inadvertently saved some files i
word and others in macro template. I didn't create this and don’t kno
how it happened. HOWEVER
2 I now have a normal.dotm problem. As a result I have a lot of file
that appear to be roaming files and I cannot open them.
3 Normal.dotm. I only have one normal file which is macro enabled as
deleted all the others although I didn’t have any that were not macr
enabled. But I cannot delete the last one because I get the messag
that I have a word document open elsewhere. I don’t have an actua
document open but I do have word open without a document. I can’t ge
rid of this until I save it but then I get a message that a file is ope
so I don’t save and it goes away until I open a word file again. So I g
for don’t save and of course it comes back again.
4 So I do not have a normal.dotm word file, just a normal.docm in macr
enabled templates.

I have tried a few things. In options, advanced, I do not have promp
before saving ticked.
I have searched for normal.dotm and only have the macro enable
normal.dotm. I cannot delete this because I have the file open again.
also get a lot of files that are read only files. So all sorts o
problems. This has only been happening over a week. Another option
have changed is preserve fidelity when sharing. I have ticked save
embedded fonts. I don’t know if this will fix the italics problem. I
cut copy and paste I have changed to keep source formatting. But thi
seems to revert back to other options.
I receive files back from proofreading and they come back to me ok.
So my first problem is dealing with the normal.dotm files.
I hope you can make sense of this.

kind regard

 

[kaye123]

Hi Stefan,

"Stefan Blom" wrote
-
Since you have replied to an old thread,
I see your post out of context -

As I don't understand exactly Kaye's problem, here the discussion:

Active post from kaye123:

[Word 2013]-
I am obviously having problems saving
my macro on some documents as stated
below. I need to read up on my problem.
What questions should I ask please?
I use a macro to change footnotes in word.-


Original question from 26. Sept. 2013:
---
I changed my footnote spacing by using a macro
(a long time ago).
I don't know if my problems with this macro lately
is why I have been loosing all italics in my footnotes
as I work with my document.

I use citation software and you can't change it manually.

I don't know what is happening and what I should be
looking at to troubleshoot the problem. I don't know if
they are related to each other.

So as a first step is there a simple answer as to
why footnotes are changing without factoring in
my macro? I don't really want to get into a
discussion about my macro at this stage.

Can anyone through any light on this please?
Using Word 2013.---


My answer from 26. Sept. 2013:
--
ITALIC usually toggles: normal text will be
formatted italic, italic text will be formatted
back to normal.
Maybe, your macro or something else resetted
italic to normal. Or anybody/anything reapplied the
style "Footnotetext", so italic was removed...--

Hello Lisa
I have posted a full explanation of my problem. However as to th
italics this appears to be separate as the macro is just for spacing o
the footnotes and other documents haven't been changed. What do you mea
here please? Why are3 some docs ok and not others?
<ITALIC usually toggles: normal text will be
formatted italic, italic text will be formatted
back to normal.> If it wasn't anything to do with the macro what els
would cause this please? However if it is related to my overal
problems oformal.docm please advise? OI have added a bit onto my proble
and a link that tells me what happens but not a solution. I stated tha
I now know that normal.docm is by default a macro enabled template.
kind regard

 

[Stefan Blom]

You can't delete the Normal template unless you first exit Word.
However, I recommend that you don't delete the template but rename it
instead.

Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

;494862']Since you have replied to an old thread, I see your post out of
context
(because I'm using an NNTP newsreader where older messages get deleted
regularly).

In what way do you want to change the footnotes in Word? Which version
of
Word are you using?

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Hello Stephan and Lisa
Using Word 2010 Win 32 bit
Can I start again because I have been doing some trouble shooting
although I am not sure I can make my problem clear. I have had a macro
for footnotes and I was using it trouble free. It is still in global
templates. It was just a margin setting in footnotes. I have a lot of
add ons because I have endnote citation software that opens with Word.
1. My main problem was that I have inadvertently saved some files in
word and others in macro template. I didn't create this and don’t know
how it happened. HOWEVER
2 I now have a normal.dotm problem. As a result I have a lot of files
that appear to be roaming files and I cannot open them.
3 Normal.dotm. I only have one normal file which is macro enabled as I
deleted all the others although I didn’t have any that were not macro
enabled. But I cannot delete the last one because I get the message
that I have a word document open elsewhere. I don’t have an actual
document open but I do have word open without a document. I can’t get
rid of this until I save it but then I get a message that a file is open
so I don’t save and it goes away until I open a word file again. So I go
for don’t save and of course it comes back again.
4 So I do not have a normal.dotm word file, just a normal.docm in macro
enabled templates.

I have tried a few things. In options, advanced, I do not have prompt
before saving ticked.
I have searched for normal.dotm and only have the macro enabled
normal.dotm. I cannot delete this because I have the file open again. I
also get a lot of files that are read only files. So all sorts of
problems. This has only been happening over a week. Another option I
have changed is preserve fidelity when sharing. I have ticked saved
embedded fonts. I don’t know if this will fix the italics problem. In
cut copy and paste I have changed to keep source formatting. But this
seems to revert back to other options.
I receive files back from proofreading and they come back to me ok.
So my first problem is dealing with the normal.dotm files.
I hope you can make sense of this.

kind regards

 

[Stefan Blom]

Could you show us the code of the macro in question?

With regards to italics being a toggle, this just means that if you
apply italics to regular text, you get italics (not surprisingly).
However, if you apply it again to the same text, you get regular text back.

This may cause unexpected results if there is a style conflict and/or if
italics resurface if you haven't modified a style correctly.

Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

 

[kaye123]

;494877']Could you show us the code of the macro in question?

With regards to italics being a toggle, this just means that if you
apply italics to regular text, you get italics (not surprisingly).
However, if you apply it again to the same text, you get regular tex
back.

This may cause unexpected results if there is a style conflict and/or i

italics resurface if you haven't modified a style correctly.

Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP




[/i]

[/QUOTE]
Stefan I have tried to send you a reply and lost it twice. I had to go
back to a capacha page and sign in again. I lost this so just tryin
again. I sent the script in this post. Should I have attached it.

Regard

 

[kaye123]

;494862']Since you have replied to an old thread, I see your post out o
context
(because I'm using an NNTP newsreader where older messages get deleted
regularly).

In what way do you want to change the footnotes in Word? Which versio
of
Word are you using?

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Hello Stefan
I am using this post because I wanted to get back to you to say that th
problem I last wrote about is clear now. Don't worry about macros o
anything else. It is a simple normal.docm problem.

I now have a supposedly blank document with writing on - "the quic
brown fox" hereafter known as "the fox" for identification purposes
(before I just got an open window with no doc so now I can actually se
what is happening) . It is now opening as a blank document and I canno
rename it because I get the message it is open even though I have close
all documents. So basically this is what was happening when I wa
opening and closing documents and getting messages and then not bein
able to change anything because a doc was open.

I cleared out all my macros that had been in global template and redi
my macro and it is the only one in there.

So when I try and get a new document it comes up. My normal.docm are no
found in "new from existing templates". If I try and do a search fro
start I go straight to the fox doc. It doesn't do a search.
I try and make a new one by going to file and open but it still bring
up the fox doc.
So I need to rename it but just cant seem to be able to . Oh and I hav
ticked hidden files so I can see everything. Could it be a hidden file


I hope this makes everything clearer. I am looking at a document on ho
to fix it but lots of different versions in the one article. The articl
warns about
making a new normal doc for existing files.

My macro was for all files because I don't do any other work wit
footnotes.
Thank you in advance for helping with this document.

As for one of the other questions re italics.
I still cannot understand why italics changed. What question should
ask to see if I can get an article or an explanation and fix please?

regard

 

[Stefan Blom]

Are you trying to post an example document? Whether you can "attach" a file
or not depends on how you access these groups. What you can do is upload a
file to SkyDrive and post a link here.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

;494877']Could you show us the code of the macro in question?

With regards to italics being a toggle, this just means that if you
apply italics to regular text, you get italics (not surprisingly).
However, if you apply it again to the same text, you get regular text
back.

This may cause unexpected results if there is a style conflict and/or if

italics resurface if you haven't modified a style correctly.

Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP




[/i]

Stefan I have tried to send you a reply and lost it twice. I had to got
back to a capacha page and sign in again. I lost this so just trying
again. I sent the script in this post. Should I have attached it.

Regards
[/QUOTE]

 

[kaye123]

'Stefan Blom[_3_ Wrote:
;494862']Since you have replied to an old thread, I see your post out o
context
(because I'm using an NNTP newsreader where older messages get deleted
regularly).

In what way do you want to change the footnotes in Word? Which versio
of
Word are you using?

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Hello Stefan
I am using this post because I wanted to get back to you to say that th
problem I last wrote about is clear now. Don't worry about macros o
anything else. It is a simple normal.docm problem.

I now have a supposedly blank document with writing on - "the quic
brown fox" hereafter known as "the fox" for identification purposes
(before I just got an open window with no doc so now I can actually se
what is happening) . It is now opening as a blank document and I canno
rename it because I get the message it is open even though I have close
all documents. So basically this is what was happening when I wa
opening and closing documents and getting messages and then not bein
able to change anything because a doc was open.

I cleared out all my macros that had been in global template and redi
my macro and it is the only one in there.

So when I try and get a new document it comes up. My normal.docm are no
found in "new from existing templates". If I try and do a search fro
start I go straight to the fox doc. It doesn't do a search.
I try and make a new one by going to file and open but it still bring
up the fox doc.
So I need to rename it but just cant seem to be able to . Oh and I hav
ticked hidden files so I can see everything. Could it be a hidden file


I hope this makes everything clearer. I am looking at a document on ho
to fix it but lots of different versions in the one article. The articl
warns about
making a new normal doc for existing files.

My macro was for all files because I don't do any other work wit
footnotes.
Thank you in advance for helping with this document.

As for one of the other questions re italics.
I still cannot understand why italics changed. What question should
ask to see if I can get an article or an explanation and fix please?

regards> >

Hello Stephan

Want to make sure you get my reply so posted to a couple of yo
posts.
Hello Stephan
Re normal docm problem. Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
have been unwell. I have resolved my normal.docm problem that ha
arisen in this thread. I am still unsure as to why I am loosing m
italics but will keep an eye on it and if it happens again I ca
provide more information.
Thank you for your assistance
Kay

 

[Stefan Blom]

So things are OK for now? Do post back if the problem comes back. Actually,
you may want to post to an entirely new thread, if necessary, to get more
attention.

Good luck!

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

'Stefan Blom[_3_ Wrote:
;494862']Since you have replied to an old thread, I see your post out
of
context
(because I'm using an NNTP newsreader where older messages get deleted
regularly).

In what way do you want to change the footnotes in Word? Which version
of
Word are you using?

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Hello Stefan
I am using this post because I wanted to get back to you to say that
the
problem I last wrote about is clear now. Don't worry about macros or
anything else. It is a simple normal.docm problem.

I now have a supposedly blank document with writing on - "the quick
brown fox" hereafter known as "the fox" for identification purposes.
(before I just got an open window with no doc so now I can actually see
what is happening) . It is now opening as a blank document and I cannot
rename it because I get the message it is open even though I have
closed
all documents. So basically this is what was happening when I was
opening and closing documents and getting messages and then not being
able to change anything because a doc was open.

I cleared out all my macros that had been in global template and redid
my macro and it is the only one in there.

So when I try and get a new document it comes up. My normal.docm are
now
found in "new from existing templates". If I try and do a search from
start I go straight to the fox doc. It doesn't do a search.
I try and make a new one by going to file and open but it still brings
up the fox doc.
So I need to rename it but just cant seem to be able to . Oh and I have
ticked hidden files so I can see everything. Could it be a hidden file?


I hope this makes everything clearer. I am looking at a document on how
to fix it but lots of different versions in the one article. The
article
warns about
making a new normal doc for existing files.

My macro was for all files because I don't do any other work with
footnotes.
Thank you in advance for helping with this document.

As for one of the other questions re italics.
I still cannot understand why italics changed. What question should I
ask to see if I can get an article or an explanation and fix please?

regards> >

Hello Stephan

Want to make sure you get my reply so posted to a couple of yor
posts.
Hello Stephan
Re normal docm problem. Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I
have been unwell. I have resolved my normal.docm problem that has
arisen in this thread. I am still unsure as to why I am loosing my
italics but will keep an eye on it and if it happens again I can
provide more information.
Thank you for your assistance
Kaye