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My name is Tony Jollans. A few years ago, in a purely selfish endeavour to learn more, I started helping people on-line, firstly at Tek-TipsTek-Tips [link to Tek-Tips Microsoft Office forum at http://www.tek-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=68], later at other on-line forums (fora?), and then in the Microsoft NewsgroupsMicrosoft Newsgroups [link to the web front end at http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx] In 2006 I was honoured to receive the Microsoft MVP award for Word and I have been fortunate enough to have had it renewed in 2007, and again in 2008. Now, in an equally selfish endeavour, this time to learn more about web pages, I am going to attempt to create a site. This is my effort; I hope the substance makes up for the lack of style.
Microsoft Word is a mature product that has evolved over many years and many versions, and it has a wealth of features just waiting to be explored. The latest version for the PC, Word 2007, comes with a brand new image and who knows what else, offering enormous potential for adventure. I will document some of my adventures here but with a worldwide user base of, perhaps, half a billion people there will undoubtedly be users of many different versions so my journey will not be limited to new territory and, indeed, will not be limited to Word for, although it may be my favourite, there are other applications within the Office Suite also promising enjoyment.
The site will not fulfil its purpose if I just develop it in secret; it has to be released into the wild to evolve or die. What I have is, therefore, on display here and being worked on every day. My first article is about the new colour model in Word 2007, in particular how to work with it in VBA, and it is growing like Topsy. Please take a look and, if you like what you see, come back and watch it develop. As it is a work in progress, I may make factual errors; my apologies in advance if that happens; please tell metell me [link to e-mail the author: TonyJollans@mvps.org] if you find any.
Beginnings of an article on Colours in Word 2007
⇒ Link to the article on Colours in Word 2007 – on page 2007.htm – here
As well as articles for the fun of it, occasionally I may come across specific issues that don’t, perhaps, work as one might wish, and write about them. The first such, about which I have written far too much, is:
I just updated my Index. Where did my Page Headers go?
⇒ Link to the article on index updating and lost headers – on page Issues/IndexUpdate/IndexUpdate.htm – here
I have decided to add a third category of pieces – shorts, for want of a better term. These will be short write-ups of items I find to be of interest but which I may have neither time nor inclination to investigate fully or write-up fully. Some of these may be developed into more major articles, some certainly won’t. I guess part of what I’m trying to do here is provide a repository for the overflow from my brain and this may be one way I can speed up the process, information being largely useless unless shared.
The more I write, the less practical it becomes to list everything here, on my Home Page. I have, therefore, instituted new contents pages from where they can all be linked more easily.
Go to the list of Short Articles
⇒ Link to the Short Article contents page Shorts/Shorts.htm – here
If you're looking for something particular that's not here you may find it at one of the links on the left; similarly if you want help or to ask a question. If you would like to make any comment, or suggest something I should explore, please feel free to e-mail mee-mail me [link to e-mail the author: TonyJollans@mvps.org].
These pages have been designed for modern browsers. So far I think they look more-or-less the same in IE7, Firefox 2, and Opera 9. Although not perfect, I have also tried to make them work properly in IE6 and think I have ironed out all the problems I had. I don't have a Mac to test but I do have a slight problem with positioning at the bottom of some pages which shows up in Safari for the PC. I am not in a rush to install Chrome, but will try it in a virtual machine one day, and will keep on testing in all browsers and endeavour to keep things running smoothly. Meanwhile, please let me knowlet me know [link to e-mail the author: TonyJollans@mvps.org] if you spot anything at all odd - in any browser.
Tony Jollans. This page last updated 26 September 2008. Site last updated 26 September 2008.