Did
you know that you can use Microsoft Office Word 2003 to create
custom-coded items? We won’t get into how to create these items (like
macros and forms) until the advanced book, but here’s an overview of the
coding toolbars.
The
first toolbar is the Control Toolbox, and it looks like this:
Let’s
look at each of its commands.
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Enters or exits
design mode. |
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Shows you the
properties of the selected item. |
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Opens a Visual
Basic window so you can edit code. |
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Inserts a check
box. |
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Inserts a text box. |
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Inserts a command
button. |
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Inserts an option
button. |
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Inserts a list box. |
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Inserts a combo
(drop-down) box. |
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Inserts a toggle
button. |
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Inserts a spin
button. |
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Inserts a scroll
bar. |
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Inserts a label. |
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Inserts an image
block. |
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Opens a menu so you
can choose a different type of control. |
Next
up is the database toolbar, which provides tools for managing forms,
records, and fields.
You’ll
notice that some of these commands look a lot similar to our Tables and
Borders toolbar. Let’s take a look at what each command does.
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Opens the Data Form
dialog box. |
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Opens the Manage
Fields dialog box. |
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Adds a new record. |
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Deletes the
selected record. |
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Sorts records in
ascending order. |
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Sorts records in
descending order. |
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Opens a dialog box
allowing you to insert different database types. |
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Updates the current
field. |
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Opens a special
find dialog box. |
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Mail merges the
current document. |
We
also have a special toolbar just for Forms:
It has
some of the same commands as the other coding toolbars, but is geared
towards creating and editing forms.
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Inserts a text form
field. |
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Inserts a check box
form field. |
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Inserts a drop-down
form field. |
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Opens the options
for the selected form field. |
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Changes your cursor
to a pencil so you can draw a table. |
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Allows you to
insert a table. |
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Insert a frame. |
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Toggle form field
shading on or off. |
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Resets form fields. |
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Protects the form
from editing. |
Last
but not least, we have the Visual Basic toolbar. Visual Basic is the
name of the program that you use to edit code for forms, databases, and
other coded objects. Here’s what the Visual Basic toolbar looks like:
And
here’s what each of its commands do:
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Opens a dialog so
you can select a macro to run. |
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Opens a dialog so
you can record a macro. |
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Opens the Macro
Security dialog box. |
|
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Opens the Visual
Basic Editor. |
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Opens the Control
Toolbox toolbar. |
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Opens design mode. |
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Opens Microsoft
Script Editor. |
That’s
it for coding toolbars!
