#USEFUL MICROSOFT WORD MACROS UPDATE#

The macro adds a new journal entry to the end of the text by searching for the end of the document, removing any extra paragraphs at the end of the document, and then adding in the pre-scripted skeleton structure for a new journal entry with the date of today. But it works for me without any major issues (including the null value case), and that is what mattered. It can be easily defeated if someone decides to include the вЂTotal вЂ™ string inside their journal entry, or if one wants to overflow the numbers. The example document shows this total at the top. When it matches, it will add the number found between вЂвЂ™ to a running total until the entire document has been searched. The macro calculates the total number of hours entered by searching for the вЂTotal вЂ™ string. It includes a text-button to add the total number of hours for each entry and another text-button to add new journal entries. I have provided an example document below. Automatically add skeleton entry on document open.Calculate total hours on exit without user needing to remember.Add skeleton text containing todayвЂ™s date, start, end, and total time.Automatically remove empty paragraphs that Microsoft Word loves to place at the end of your document.I created a Microsoft Word macro enabled document that when opened will:

#USEFUL MICROSOFT WORD MACROS UPDATE#

Automatically update total hours at top of document.

The ability to total hours for all entries without the user remembering.

Automatically insert a new blank entry for today with the cursor ready to write a description.

There were probably other solutions that were better suited for this, but I really wanted to see how useful Microsoft Word macros (I know the evil stigma associated with macros) could be to me. I wanted an automatic running total because I would often forget to recalculate my grand total after each entry. I was ready to learn more about its advanced features. This was shortly after I had concluded work on a previous project that involved using Microsoft Word with macro scripts.

Because the project was deeply integrated with Microsoft products and services, I decided that it would be best to write such a journal with Microsoft Word.ДЄs is the motivation for many projects/scripts of mine, I wanted to automate the process as much as possible such that I never had to think about it again. A few months back I was given the requirement for a project to keep some kind of journal logging the number of hours I spent on a task along with a short description.

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