Ryan's Word macros in Office 2007?

[S. Patrick Eaton]

Fellow Felixophiles,

Please pardon the not-strictly-Felix-related question on this list, but
I was wondering if anyone has had any success using Ryan's Word macros
(see URL below) in an Office 2007 environment.

http://ginstrom.com/software/

I am getting a lot of assignments these days that could really benefit
from the functionality of the Wide2Narrow macro in particular, but I was
unable to get it to work in Word 2007 (even after creating a .docm file
to use it in).

If anyone has any suggestions about how to get these macros to work in
the more recent Office environments, I would be very glad to hear them.

Best regards,

Sako Eaton

[Ginstrom IT Solutions]

> Behalf Of S. Patrick Eaton

> If anyone has any suggestions about how to get these macros to work in the
> more recent Office environments, I would be very glad to hear them.

I'm using this macro now in Word 2010. What kind of problems are you having?

Did you download the macro as a file, and then right click Modules and
select "Import" for your Normal file?

Regards,
Ryan

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[S. Patrick Eaton]

Thanks for the quick response, Ryan!

> I'm using this macro now in Word 2010. What kind of problems are you having?

When I attempt to run the macro, Word shows that it is running, but at
the end of the process none of the double-byte characters have changed.

> Did you download the macro as a file, and then right click Modules and
> select "Import" for your Normal file?

I selected the Import command from the File menu in the Visual Basic
window, but that does essentially the same thing, right? (In any case,
removing the module and re-importing it with the right-click method
doesn't seem to get rid of the problem.)

Best regards,

Sako

[Charles Aschmann]

I use the Wide-to-narrow macros all the time in Word 2007 on a variety
of computers, now on Win 7 but previously on Win XP without any problems
at all.

Charles Aschmann

[Ginstrom IT Solutions]

> Behalf Of S. Patrick Eaton

> When I attempt to run the macro, Word shows that it is running, but at the
> end of the process none of the double-byte characters have changed.

Which of the macros are you running? Do you have more than one document
open? Which double-byte characters are not getting changed?

[S. Patrick Eaton]

Thanks for the responses, Ryan and Charles.

> Which of the macros are you running? Do you have more than one document
> open? Which double-byte characters are not getting changed?

I think I've discovered what the problem was. I think downloading the
Wide2Narrow.bas file with Google Chrome did something weird to the
character encoding.

I tried again with Firefox, and now the macro seems to be working as
expected (except that it still doesn't seem to do anything with the "、"
character, but I added my desired conversion to the list of
arguments--so I think I should be all set now).

Sorry about the false alarm!

Best regards,

Sako