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Automatic Writing Part 1: Creating a Word document from another VBA application
(Microsoft VBA: published 2012-01-23)
A short user-defined function to create a Microsoft Word document from another Microsoft VBA-enabled application. Part 1 of a series.
Pardon me while I fly my aeroplane.
(Blog Entry: published 2012-01-09)
A little article on a hope or two for 2012.
Text before the last occurrence of a delimiter in a string
(Microsoft VBA: published 2011-12-19)
Part 3 of 3. This article describes a third short user-defined function. This function is also based on the function discussed in Part 1 and returns the text before the last occurrence of a delimiter within a given string.
Text after the last occurrence of a delimiter in a string
(Microsoft VBA: published 2011-12-12)
Part 2 of 3. This article describes another short user-defined function. This function is based on the function discussed in Part 1 and returns the text following the last occurrence of a delimiter within a given string.
Position in a Text String of the Last Occurrence of a Delimiter
(Microsoft VBA: published 2011-12-05)
Part 1 of 3. This article describes a very short function to return the position of the last occurrence of a given character in a given string.
Adding a Visual Basic for Applications Module to a Microsoft Office Document
(Microsoft VBA: published 2011-11-28)
An article about displaying the Visual Basic Editor for Microsoft Office applications and adding a blank code module to it.
Fixing Microsoft Word issues by editing the Windows Registry
(Microsoft Word: published 2011-11-07)
Fourth in a series, this article discusses backing up and editing the Windows Registry.
Fixing Microsoft Word issues with unregserver/regserver
(Microsoft Word: published 2011-10-31)
Third in a series, this article discusses startup switches that clean registry information and re-register file associations.
Simple Number Verification
(PHP: published 2011-10-24)
Another script I created to do something simple in a complicated way. This one verifies that the value it is passed is a number.
Displaying the Run Command in Windows 7
(Microsoft Windows: published 2011-10-17)
Steps for adding the Run command to the Windows 7 Start menu.
First steps when /a or /safe mends a Microsoft Word issue
(Microsoft Word: published 2011-10-03)
Second in a series, this part explains ways to solve certain Microsoft Word issues.
Troubleshooting Microsoft Word with command-line switches
(Microsoft Word: published 2011-09-26)
This article discusses two switches, /a and /safe, that assist in troubleshooting Microsoft Word issues.
Displaying a text file with PHP
(PHP: published 2011-09-19)
This code is a simple tool to allow files with HTML special characters (like ampersands, less than/greater than symbols) to be output without recoding the file itself.

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