Where are Word 2007 functions listed?

Hi Herb,

A few more of us should provide feedback via the Help facility. I just sent
them:

"Try searching the Help in Word for Formula. I know it is on the Tables tab
in the Ribbon, but for someone who does not know that, what chance have they
got with what is returned by the Help facility?"

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" <herb DeleteThis @1x2y3z.xnw> wrote in message
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> Wow. They sure don't make it easy, do they? Even knowing exactly how to do
> it, I can't coax the Help system into sharing that information with me.
>
> In the Table Tools Layout ribbon tab, click the fx/Formula button (far
> right end of the ribbon).
>
>
>
> --
> Herb Tyson MS MVP
> Author of the Word 2007 Bible
> Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
> Web: http://www.herbtyson.com
>
>
> "Orpheus2000" <Orpheus2000 DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:95987884-413B-43BD-810D-6DF84ADB58E7@microsoft.com...
>> The Help pages do not seem to understand the above question, so I cannot
>> find
>> any information on doing calculations within Word 2007 tables.
>

Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote:
> "Try searching the Help in Word for Formula. I know it is on the Tables tab
> in the Ribbon, but for someone who does not know that, what chance have they
> got with what is returned by the Help facility?"

Doug, I've saved that text for use with the various feedback mechanisms
I've come across, and used regularly.

Despite being crystal clear, I suspect that in 90% of cases this will
elicit a reply along the lines of:

"Formulas are documented at ..." or even worse:
"You should search the help for information on formulas"

Still, a 9% improvement will be a huge step forwards!

--
Steve Swift
http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html
http://www.ringers.org.uk

For a moment there, I misunderstood, and thought that you were saying that
searching for "formula" was the answer. Here, I get 23 hits with Online
Content enabled, and 9 with it turned off... and--as you discovered--NONE of
them have anything whatsoever to do with table math, the = field, etc..

If I could actually find any help on it, I could then reverse engineer some
working search terms... but, as far as I can tell, there does not seem to be
anything about this in the Help file.

One thing I miss from OS/2 is that you could do an actual search of the help
file--you were not limited to the terms that are indexed. This gave
tremendous capabilities to quickly find what you're looking for. The fact
that we can't search the help files directly in Windows applications means
we're at the mercy of some indexer's limited imagination.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" <dkr.RemoveThis@REMOVECAPSmvps.org> wrote in message
news:ezkpnPBMJHA.5648@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Hi Herb,
>
> A few more of us should provide feedback via the Help facility. I just
> sent them:
>
> "Try searching the Help in Word for Formula. I know it is on the Tables
> tab in the Ribbon, but for someone who does not know that, what chance
> have they got with what is returned by the Help facility?"
>
> --
> Hope this helps.
>
> Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
> services on a paid consulting basis.
>
> Doug Robbins - Word MVP
>
> "Herb Tyson [MVP]" <herb.RemoveThis@1x2y3z.xnw> wrote in message
> news:OiBataAMJHA.5060@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Wow. They sure don't make it easy, do they? Even knowing exactly how to
>> do it, I can't coax the Help system into sharing that information with
>> me.
>>
>> In the Table Tools Layout ribbon tab, click the fx/Formula button (far
>> right end of the ribbon).
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Herb Tyson MS MVP
>> Author of the Word 2007 Bible
>> Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
>> Web: http://www.herbtyson.com
>>
>>
>> "Orpheus2000" <Orpheus2000.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:95987884-413B-43BD-810D-6DF84ADB58E7@microsoft.com...
>>> The Help pages do not seem to understand the above question, so I cannot
>>> find
>>> any information on doing calculations within Word 2007 tables.
>>
>
>

Hi Orpheus,

To see how to do the field coding for calculations in Word, check out my Word Field Maths 'tutorial', at:
http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/showthreaded.pl?Number=365442
or
http://www.gmayor.com/downloads.htm#Third_party


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Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


"Orpheus2000" <Orpheus2000.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:95987884-413B-43BD-810D-6DF84ADB58E7@microsoft.com...
> The Help pages do not seem to understand the above question, so I cannot find
> any information on doing calculations within Word 2007 tables.