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[bassadi]

Hello. I did something in Word 2007 which worked perfectly, but now need to
redo this task in 2003 for compatibility with another person.

I have a report with a Title on the first page, and headers throughout the
rest. In 2007, I inserted a Quick Part (Document Property --> Title) to
define the text on page 1 as my Title. Then I simply inserted this Quick Part
into my header on page 2, which thus showed the title on every page, and most
importantly, when I changed the Title on page 1, the rest updated
AUTOMATICALLY.

So my question is quite simple - how do I do this in Word 2003 without VBA
and without creating a new Template file? As you know, Word 2003 does not
have Quick Parts. I read forums on Bookmarks, but it did not work for me.

Thank you for any help you can provide.

 

[Terry Farrell]

Open a COPY of your template, then SaveAs and choose Word 97-2003 template
*.dot. It will work as long as you saved the quick part building blocks with
the template rather than with normal.dot. Otherwise you can use the
Organizer to copy the missing bits across.

 

[bassadi]

Hi Terry,

I tried what you said but it didn't seem to work. I'm not actually fully
understanding your suggestion. Can you be a bit more specific on which
actions to take? What exactly am I supposed to do with the building blocks?
What is "normal.dot?" How do I "use the Organizer to copy the missing bits
across?"

I made a copy of the file, saved-as Word 97-2003 template, and it prompted
me that links will be converted to static - which means the autolink function
did not carry over. So I'm still stuck.....

 

[bassadi]

This issue is still outstanding for me. I would appreciate some further
guidance if anyone has some. Thank you.

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

You can either select the "title" on the first page and then from the Insert
menu assign a bookmark to it and then in the header insert a cross reference
to the text of the bookmark.

That is a bit risking however as if you are updating the "title" on the
first page, it is very easy to delete the bookmark.

A better option would be to insert a Title field in both cases and set the
title in the Document Properties dialog. Then if you want to update the
title, do it in that dialog.

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com