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A Convenient Way to Fill-In Word Custom Properties

07.03.2009 computing

In a previous post, we discussed an easy way to fill-in forms and reports having recurrent data with the help of custom properties and fields. Thanks to a comment from Wayne, I found out that filling the actual value of the fields with the “conventional” method (the use of the default Word form) was not so handy and has big disadvantages …

Word Custom Properties: How to Improve Productivity

03.03.2009 computing

When working with Microsoft Word, a great part of administrative tasks consist in filling forms and generating reports on a pre-established templates or models. Now if within your document you have recurrent data (like customer name, company name, etc.) filling the document will be much easier if we would be able to enter this data in only one location and then populate the document automatically…

ChlankMail: Extract Email Addresses From Any Text

21.01.2009 computing

When you get emails like “you’re not gonna be able to pee for 3 years, if you don’t forward this mail to 23.6 of your friends”, the best revenge is to spam the spammers, or at least ask them to remove you from their lists. Task is easy if you have few couples of addresses, [...]

Using WndProc to Disabe Text Box Context Menu

09.11.2008 computing

Whether you wanted to forbid users to paste like crazy within textboxes or you wanted to create your own, the default textbox context menu should be deactivated. It’s a good example of overriding the default WndProc method (which corresponds to the WindowProc windows function) and filtering the incoming messages. For our example we will listen [...]

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