Week 5 (6/30 - 7/4)

6/30

I created a document of requirements and features that have been discussed and considered for the literature department's tool to have.
I began working with the interface designer to get an idea of what a user might see when they begin using Word to markup their literature files.
I researched more about how to look through a Word document and be able to surround formatted font with a specific tag. I am having trouble finding out how to do this with Visual Basic since it doesn't seem like you can go through the file with a cursor point. I am then looking to see if there is a way to use C# to accomplish this but I need to see how that would work inside the Word environment.
LINQ will also be another thing I need to look at and figure out how to implement in a way that is useful to the tool and works to the users' needs.

I worked on the add-in setup and how they can be laid out in Visual Studio using an XML file to lay out the design.
I also worked more on the macros and finally figured out how to get it to run through a document and apply a tag for a type of format. I still need to work in or at least take into account that long phrases and other exceptions might need to be better examined and evaluated but overall I feel I should be able to take this simple setup and only build more upon it to increase the usability.
I want to look into how to get a macro to select each line in a paragraph and then be able to take these individually selected lines and tag them with a line tag so that a user will not have to do this multiple times by hand.
I am also looking into how to remove the additional content that is not tagged in a Word document as needed items and be able to look over this information and only retain the information that is needed within the document.

I went over the macro more trying to figure out why it is repeating the tag. I need to look more at loops that run in Word and also something similar maybe to the find and replace function so that this can be fixed and improved.
I also took a better look at what else can be done with VSTO to see how the add-in can be customized to help the user as much as possible.
I want to see if I can create an add-in that is installed and then a wizard would be able to run for the user to put in their unique information and then have it continue for the individual documents.
I started working on tagging a document and going through the various needs and attributes that each one has. I still haven't been able to find any information about how to have this pop open when something is tagged that has an attribute to be specified.

I read the first sections of the Mastering VBA book and started to look ahead to see what all the book was going to be able to tell me.
There is a section for designing boxes and different visual applications in Word. I thought about how this could be used and started to work some more in Visio to design some windows that users could use to help them work. I spent sometime thinking about different features that would be useful and how to organize them for the best use.
I met with Dr. Mandell and Dr. Gannod and went over more of the things she is looking for in this system and got a better idea of what the scope of the presentation needs to be.

Happy Fourth of July!!