hello, i have found some information about writing Marcos for Winword, all of them (at least what i have found) are written for Winword 6.0 , but those macros do not run on OfficeXP (for WinXP) anymore. does anybody how why? well, i am not trying to write a virus, i just find it amusing to have something that will automatically do the document formatting for us. thanks very much.

I don't really know why you are having problems with the macro in Office XP. However, if I had to guess... I would say Micro$oft made the new macro functions not compatible with the older Word macro functions, so companies that rely heavily on the operation of their builtin macros would be forced to update to the more expensive and more error prone Office XP from older versions of Office ... who knows, I'm sure there are macros out there for XP just try searching for Word XP Macros on google to see if you can find source or a how-to for them :) Infinite Recursion

"companies that rely heavily on the operation of their builtin macros would be forced to update " A more plausible answer might be that macros began too powerful and their functions have had to be curbed in a networked world. The problem with very high-level, easy-to-use implementations is that when a major change comes around (and it will), it is very hard to keep backwards compatibility. This is especially true if one originally ignored something like security. The programmer has a choice. They can keep full support across versions (the most expensive, error-prone, and time-consuming option), they can deprecate features slowly (meaning no one is completely happy and the version differences come into heavy play), or they can make a new version and start relatively fresh (the cheapest, least error-prone, and simplest option for the majority of parties). Those who build their entire business operations on macros should learn otherwise or have in-house or contracted support on the matters. Imagine a world built on businesses that revolve around Word macros - it is a world ready for change. "new macro functions not compatible with the older Word macro functions" It would be extremely difficult to make old versions compatible with new versions. It not only requires updating of old code bases (which no one supports forever) but it also limits the functionality of new macro functions. There are a plethora of books on the subject of Word macros and thousands of websites to aid you.

hey, thanks very much =)