Systematically Avoiding Document Gaffes
Systematically preventing errors in published documents is the subject of this post.
Comments, revision marks, embedded questions, internal product names, and other content not meant for general publication have been a major pain point for Word users.
Word 2007 provides the Document Inspector – a tool for preventing distribution of the content that you don’t want to share. In addition to the out of the box routines provided by the Document Inspector, Word 2007 enables creating new inspector modules that meet very specific needs – your needs – using the “DocumentInspectors” collection type.
If you are using an earlier version of Word, the good news is that you can use VBA to create tools that mimic the functionality of Document Inspector. Ahem, ahem — get ready for a bit of shameless self-promotion — you can also get ready-made Document Inspector-like functionality for earlier versions of Word –from Method M. For more, download the article about systematically avoiding document gaffes.
Katriel
