Hi all,

our shop does a lot of work with "smart documents", which have a lot of VBA
code inside the document template to turn a document into an application
(usually we do this in MS Word docs).

For anyone else working in the IDE of Word (at least Word 2003) I wanted to
mention that apparently window eyes ships with some settings missing.

There is no set file associated with the IDE portion of Word.  you'll need
to load the set file Word11, and save it with the association to the IDE.
it will save under the name VBE6, which I recommend you keep, to allow you
to change it distinctly from the document word set file.

In addition, the cursor type isn't set in window eyes for the IDE, so
arrowing up/down through the code will not speak.  You need to open a code
window in the IDE, and then use the command to auto-detect the cursor type
(I believe that's control shift insert C by default), and windows will
properly determine what cursor type the IDE is using, and it will then begin
tracking the cursor properly.  I was told that you didn't need to save
anything after window eyes determined the cursor type, window eyes
automatically saved that info.

Finally, you need to go into the tools | options menu of the IDE, and in the
"docking" tab, uncheck all the checkboxes for each window type so that none
of them are dockable (I did this so long ago I can't remember which problem
it solves).

the only unsolved problem after this is that intellisense doesn't speak, but
maybe I'll be able to script that.

I just wanted to put this info out there for others; it may help with other
versions of office, I don't know.

hth,

Chip


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