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By Sian Waterfield
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| Chris Greaves |
The first session of the STC-SOC's
Education Days began with an entertaining step-by-step guide for how
to make "homebrew" coffee in a jam jar (you know for the next
time you are missing your travel mug!). This was just the start of a
very captivating demonstration of Chris Greaves' automated indexing
tool and numerous macros that he has developed for MS Word. The indexer, along with being able to quickly (literally seconds) build an index
within your document, is also able "to locate all the interesting
words in your document." After we carefully followed the instructions
in the ReadMeWd.txt, we adjusted our PC's macro security settings in Word
(please note the "PC" part of that, as it was not compatible with my
Mac) and were ready to run the setup. Once everyone had run
the set up, we were able to view the Indexer in our Word Add-Ins
tab and with one click of a button…create an index! After viewing the ins and
outs of the Indexer tool which included concordance tables, leaders and KWIC
phrases, Chris also demonstrated a selection of his multiple (800
plus!) time saving Word macros. These included: a pre-emptive
spellchecker, task time tracker/reporter, triangulated tables, automated
version control and stale dating and much, much more! It was easy to see
how these tools could save us time, money and countless headaches. So "if
the work you are doing is boring and repetitive - build (or borrow) a
macro!" To view the free macros and tools that have been mentioned here
check out the following resources: www.chrisgreaves.com and http://macrosinminutes.blogspot.ca/
