Rebuild your Active Document

Your document is corrupt, or it is so heavily edited that it is behaving badly.
Use the little macro "RebuildActiveDocument" to grab all your text, unformatted, and rebuild the document.
CAUTION: make a copy of your document using Windows Explorer before running this macro.

Sub RebuildActiveDocument()

    ' Get the name of the source ActiveDocumentument

    Dim strFilename As String

    strFilename = ActiveDocument.FullName

    ' Get the stoty-content of the ActiveDocumentument

    Dim strStoryContent As String

    Dim lng As Long

    For lng = 1 To ActiveDocument.StoryRanges.Count

        strStoryContent = strStoryContent & ActiveDocument.StoryRanges(lng).Text

    Next lng

    ' Close the ActiveDocumentument WITHOUT saving changes

    ActiveDocument.Close (wdDoNotSaveChanges)

    ' Create a new ActiveDocumentument

    Documents.Add

    ' Insert the text file

    Selection.TypeText (strStoryContent)

    ' Save the ActiveDocumentument with the original name

    ActiveDocument.SaveAs (strFilename)

End Sub

Print View, Whole page, All documents

From time to time I find myself reviewing or updating a set of a dozen or so documents.

I like to see them in a consistent manner.

Perhaps they are a set of flyers, and I want to make sure that the layout above-the-fold is identical.

This little macro loops through all open documents, moves the cursor to the top of the document, then chooses Print View (WYSIWYG, almost) and a whole-page on the screen.

Sub PrintViewAll()

    Dim doc As Document

    For Each doc In Application.Documents

        doc.Activate

        Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdStory

        ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdPrintView

        ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Zoom.PageFit = wdPageFitFullPage

        Application.WindowState = wdWindowStateMaximize\

    Next doc

End Sub

P.S. If you'd rather be left at the foot of the documents, to append new text, use:-

Selection.EndKey Unit:=wdStory

P.P.S. If you'd rather be left in Normal view, use:

ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdNormalView

File,Close (No Save)

I'm feeling guilty about the length of the previous post.
I hope you'll accept this token of remorse.

We use Ctrl-F4 to close a document, and of course if the contents of the document have changed we get to answer the skill-testing question "Do you want to save?".
Oftentimes we know in advance that we don't want the changes. Perhaps we have been experimenting with the document and want to discard all changes before we accidentally overwrite the good version.

Closing a File (document) without saving changes is a one-liner, as shown below.

For extra utility you may want to assign an unused shortcut key combination to this macro.

Sub FileCloseNoSave()

    ActiveDocument.Close (wdDoNotSaveChanges)

End Sub

Mark Duplicated Words

If you'd like an easy way to improve your writing style, try this lengthy-looking macro and function.
It examines each sentence in your document looking for repeated words.
A string "strDismiss" is set up to avoid reporting words which I think are allowed to be repeated.
repeated words are flagged with Microsoft Word's character style "Strong", so you may want to modify that in your Normal.dot to be bright pink, 16 point, or whatever.
Don't forget that you can clear all local formatting with Ctrl-A followed by Ctrl-Space.

Public strDismiss As String

Sub MarkDuplicatedWords()

    strDismiss = vbTab & "for" & vbTab & "and" & vbTab & "that" & vbTab & "," & vbTab & "." & vbTab & "to" & vbTab

    strDismiss = strDismiss & "http" & vbTab & "://" & vbTab & "www" & vbTab & "com" & vbTab & "/" & vbTab & "the" & vbTab

    strDismiss = strDismiss & "a" & vbTab & "of" & vbTab & "www" & vbTab & "com" & vbTab & "/" & vbTab & "the" & vbTab

    strDismiss = strDismiss & """" & vbTab & "of" & vbTab & "www" & vbTab & "com" & vbTab & "/" & vbTab & "the" & vbTab

    Dim prg As Paragraph

    For Each prg In ActiveDocument.Paragraphs

        Dim snt As Range

        For Each snt In prg.Range.Sentences

            If lngCountDuplicatedWords(snt, strDismiss, ActiveDocument.Styles("Strong")) > 0 Then

            Else

            End If

        Next snt

    Next prg

End Sub

Function lngCountDuplicatedWords(rng As Range, strDismiss As String, sty As Style)

    Dim lngResult As Long

    Dim strSentence As String

    strSentence = vbTab

    Dim wd As Range

    For Each wd In rng.Words

        Dim strWord As String

        strWord = Trim(wd.Text)

        If InStr(1, strDismiss, vbTab & strWord & vbTab) > 0 Then ' we can ignore this word

        Else

            If InStr(1, strSentence, vbTab & strWord & vbTab) > 0 Then

                lngResult = lngResult + 1

                wd.Style = sty

            Else

                strSentence = strSentence & strWord & vbTab

            End If

        End If

    Next wd

    lngCountDuplicatedWords = lngResult

End Function