As you may recall, I solicited help here to fix my Comic Book Script Writing template for the PC version of Microsoft Word. It started as a joint project of myself and my friend Steve Gerber a long time ago, back before anyone was offering any sort of program or template for writing comic books. We jointly invented one using macros and then, separate from one another, kept tinkering with and changing parts of it, sometimes out of necessity since Word kept being changed by updates.
Mine was recently in need of a major overhaul and, as Steve is no longer with us, I had to go it alone. But macros in Word don't work the same way they once did and I've forgotten most of what I learned a few decades ago when we first wrote our template. So I asked here for some aid. Many of you volunteered (thank you) and I wound up working with a gent named John Samuels who lives up in Toronto and knows way more about Word than I could ever know. He was a reader of this blog and a stranger, though now I consider him a good friend.
He had a brilliant idea to deal with all the macros I wrote which no longer work properly. That brilliant idea was to not use any macros. The two of us — him, way more than me — designed a new template that uses Word's multilevel numbering features to number pages and panels, and the program's styling capability to format all the text. Right now, it's working pretty well. I intend to use it for a while to see if there are any bugs in need of extermination. So we'll see.
Right now, I just want to thank John Samuels. You meet the nicest, smartest people when you have a blog.