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This is ridiculous; I can't let a gripe about toothbrush-buying stay at the top of my journal!

At last I steeled myself to actually get on and /implement/ this
Word-Excel project that I'd been worrying at over the last few days. All right, ever since returning after the Xmas break, to be honest. The deadline is tomorrow!

Why has it taken so long? Part of the reason is that, as Bernice
says, we are not expected to write any VB. Recording Excel macros was
part of the syllabus; VB is not (not even VBA). When programming is by
macro, the design process descends down to individual keystrokes. that
is what I had been worrying at over the last few days. You must be
extremely careful when recording a macro because the slighteset
mistake can be disastrous, and there's no way to "edit" the macro
(although you can always look at the VB it generates and edit that).

I checked with Staples: yes, they do comb-bind documents.

The task was even worse than I expected because a few things I
expected to work in macros don't, so I spent some time thinking of
different ways to achieve an effect after finding that the previous
attempt to achieve it had failed. In one case, I resorted to VB, but only because doing it straightforwardly in a macro failed and there seemed no other way.

At last, to bed knowing that I have broken the back of this task and little else needs to be done tomorrow morning.