doubleclicking on field Fill-in

[Johan Tigchelaar]

Hello,
I am looking for a way to update Fill-in fields by
doubleclicking on them instead of using the update field
command by clicking the right mouse button.

I have a document with some Fill-in fields. This document
is about 10 pages long and every page contains one or more
Fill-in fields.

I know I can use the function UpdateAllFields, but then I
have to go through all the Fill-in fields when I only want
to change, for example, the 11th Fill-in field in the
document.

I am just a beginner with VBA-coding so I don't know a lot
about putting the above problem in a code.
Can anyone help me with the VBA-code for changing a Fill-
in field by doubleclicking on it?


greetings

Johan

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Johan,

Well, if this is NOT Word 97 (you should remember to mention
the version of Word), then there is a WindowBeforeDoubleClick
event you could use. Since you say you're a beginner, I'm not
sure this is the right place for you to start But look
that up in the VB Help and see how far you get running a
macro when you double-click anywhere in a document.

If you get that to work, then you need to search the word.vba
newsgroups (probably in .general) for a posting from Peter
Hewitt (last couple of weeks, as I recall) with macro code to
determine whether the selection is within a field.

I am looking for a way to update Fill-in fields by
doubleclicking on them instead of using the update field
command by clicking the right mouse button.

I have a document with some Fill-in fields. This document
is about 10 pages long and every page contains one or more
Fill-in fields.

I know I can use the function UpdateAllFields, but then I
have to go through all the Fill-in fields when I only want
to change, for example, the 11th Fill-in field in the
document.

I am just a beginner with VBA-coding so I don't know a lot
about putting the above problem in a code.
Can anyone help me with the VBA-code for changing a Fill-
in field by doubleclicking on it?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun
8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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