Silly replying to my own post, but there's a tiny bit missing.  When you
enter the filename for the IncludeText field, you need to make path
separators \\, and put quotes around it if it has spaces.

So for c:\my documents\my code.asm, you enter "c:\\my documents\\my
code.asm"

The \ is reserved for options (switches), and of course spaces get treated
as a new command.

Tony


> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu]On Behalf
> Of Tony Smith
> Sent: Thursday, 7 April 2005 8:08 AM
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: RE: [OT][AD] MS Word, was Ideas for books on PIC
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu]On Behalf
> > Of William Chops Westfield
> > Sent: Wednesday, 6 April 2005 10:29 AM
> > To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> > Subject: Re: [AD] Ideas for books on PIC
> >
> >
> > So what do all you authors use for (non-fiction writing) software?  I
> > was
> > contemplating doing some writing, and found microsoft word (which I
> > assumed did everything) to be terribly lacking in things like including
> > source code examples and such.  Short of $$$ packages like Framemaker,
> > I wound up back at LaTeX, which seems a bit ridiculous even if it does
> > have 'wrappers' that make it easier to use than in the old days...
> >
> > BillW
> > --
>
>
> MS Word isn't lacking, you just didn't look hard enough ;-).  I've 2 words
> for you, Fields & Styles.
>
> Fire up Word, click Insert/Field.  Under Categories, click "All"
> or "Links &
> References", then select IncludeText.  Type in your filename.  If you're
> keen, look at Options, you can even tell Word to run a text
> converter on the
> linked file in case it's a WordStar v1 file.
>
> Hit Ok, there's your file.  Just like $include.  Hit F9 to refresh if
> needed.  Shift-F9 to toggle between showing the field command and
> the text.
>
> Highlight the field command, Click Format/Styles.  Select Macro Text.  By
> default, the formatting will be Courier New, 10 point, mono.  If you're
> doing ASM code, you'll need to fix the tabs.  From then on, all your ASM
> code will look the same.
>
> While you're fixing the tabs, turn off the Spelling & Grammar
> check for the
> Macro Text style.  Word then won't hassle you with 5 billion alleged
> spelling mistakes.
>
> Neat, huh?
>
> One last thing, click Tools/Option/Print.  Under Printing Options, select
> Update Links.  This means when you print (even just right-clicking in
> Explorer, Word will refresh the fields, meaning the latest source
> code will
> be included.  (You can lock fields to stop this happening.)
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Tony
>
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