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I have a word document for UAT procedures that has over a hundred tables, which have -- very professionally -- been set up with the same properties.
But now I have changed the page margins of the template, making the textarea a few pixels wider, so the width of the tables has to be changed from its current 670px to 100% (using a percentage means never having to change it again).
I've also introduced new paragraph styles for tables, which allow me to get rid of the (unstable-and-cause-other-problems) cell margins of the tables.
The Problem
When ms proudly introduced the next-to-useless, unwanted, annoying pop-up lollipops for adding rows and columns to tables (which, in the next update, they had to make optional, because damned-near everyone wanted to switch the damned things off!), they broke the option to select multiple tables, so I now have to go to each table, open its properties dialog, and make the changes to each table individually.
Well over an hour's work that would previously have taken less than three minutes.
{sigh}
At least this kind of thing doesn't happen with VS, because ms' own developers have to use it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That's why we have macros. 
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Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Er, yeah.
It would take maybe three hours to research the word internals and create a macro for it.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: It would take maybe three hours to research the word internals and create a macro for it.
...but we're developers--we'll spend weeks writing some code that'll avoid a repetitive 3-minute task...
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Sorry. I don't know what came over me, to have such a stupid thought.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Er, yeah.
It would take maybe three hours to research the word internals and create a macro for it.
Quote: so I now have to go to each table, open its properties dialog, and make the changes to each table individually.
Record doing it once. Then replay it.
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Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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ZurdoDev wrote: Record doing it once. Then replay it.
I'm not sure that the Find Tables function can be used in a keystroke macro. I'll check to see if it's available in the full Find dialog -- if it is, clicking the "Find Next" button is certainly considered as a keystroke.
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Just tried it here on MSO 2010 (which doesn't have the lollipops). No go. I doesn't advance to the next table.
Good thought, though; worth trying. Cheers.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: ; worth trying.
Not at this point. You already fixed it all by hand. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Have you actually tried to write a Word macro in the last ten years? There are so many security this's and that's to turn off, and they still don't run.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Quote: Wave your hands in the air like you don't care
Glide by the people as they start to look and stare
Do your dance, do your dance, do your dance quick mamma
Come on baby tell me what's the word
Word up everybody says
When you hear the call you've got to get it underway
Word up it's the code word
No matter where you say it you know that you'll be heard
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Is there a song called "F**k that for a game of soldiers; I'm too busy to waste time on cr@p like this!"?
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You have a folder opened in Windows Explorer at some given path.
You know you're going to have to navigate to that path in an app you have opened, say, to save a file into that folder. So you click on the address bar, highlight all the text, then hit Ctrl-C to copy the path to the clipboard. You know you're not going to need that folder anymore, so you close that instance of Explorer.
You then switch to the app you have opened, hit File, Save As, click on the address bar just before pasting the path you have saved to the clipboard, and with the Ctrl key pressed down with all text in the address bar highlighted, ready to be replaced, you accidentally hit both C and V at almost the same time. Only, Ctrl-C got registered first. So you've just overwritten the "good" path on the clipboard with a path you don't care about, and Ctrl-V confirms that's exactly what you just did.
So now you have to navigate back to that deeply nested path again to save the file to the correct folder. Assuming you know exactly what it was, because you had already closed Explorer...
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Well...TBH this doesn't happen often enough to me to justify $35 USD for some software I'm gonna have to deploy to all the machines I use...especially since Richard below has pointed out that more recent versions of Win10 have a Win-V combination that just might do the trick...
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I have the solution for you:
A modal confirmation message box!
It seems like you are attempting to over-write the clipboard contents. Please confirm to proceed.
OK Cancel
That would be a lot less annoying!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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If you're being serious...then none of the items involved are apps I have the source code for.
And it would be so annoying, I have to think you're NOT being serious...
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Of course I was kidding. But just imagine if Windows did that for every copy paste.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I'm reminded of a Dilbert comic where every mouse move had to be confirmed. Somehow I can't find it right now. I'm pretty sure I didn't dream it up.
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If you're using a recent version of Windows 10, just hit Win+V instead to see a list of everything you've copied to the clipboard in the current session. 
Depending on your settings - and how much you trust Microsoft! - you might also be able to copy on one PC and paste on another.
Clipboard in Windows 10[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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This does not work on my PC. Maybe something to do with mine being enterprise version? Maybe it's locked down in policies (although I am a local admin on the machine).
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"Windows 10’s October 2018 Update has a new Clipboard experience."
A clipboard experience? 
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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No, we are on 1803...guess that explains it?
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Richard Deeming wrote: Depending on your settings - and how much you trust Microsoft! - you might also be able to copy on one PC and paste on another.
and if you use a remote desktop, you might even share it between different users 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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That's a different "feature", which has been around a lot longer.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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