Last edit field.

[Andy Lawson]

Hi all,

I'm looking to put the last edit date on the footer of my document. I've
found I can embed the edit time, save date & last print dates by using
the fields of the same name. But that's a little bit different to what I
want. I'd like to record tha last date when anybody altered the content
of the doc. Is this possible?

Thanks!
Andy.

 

[Graham Mayor]

What are the users doing with the document that {savedate} or {printdate}
don't cover?

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[Andy Lawson]

What are the users doing with the document that {savedate} or {printdate}
don't cover?

I'd like to cope with the situation where a user opens the doc and then
re-saves it. They haven't made siginificant changes, but the doc is
marked as updated.

 

[Jay Freedman]

I'd like to cope with the situation where a user opens the doc and
then re-saves it. They haven't made siginificant changes, but the doc
is marked as updated.

Word has no way to distinguish between a "significant" change -- in your
terms -- and an "insignificant" change such as automatically updating a
field. All it knows is that *something* changed.

If you want to inject human intelligence into the process, create a custom
document property (on the Custom tab of the File > Properties dialog) and a
corresponding DocProperty field in the footer. There are a couple of things
you can do to remind the user to change the property when necessary. The
simplest is to turn on the option "Prompt for document properties" in Tools

Options > Save. Another possibility is to write a macro named FileSave to

intercept the Save command and prompt specifically for the custom property
(see http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/InterceptSavePrint.htm).

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[Andy Lawson]

Word has no way to distinguish between a "significant" change -- in your
terms -- and an "insignificant" change such as automatically updating a
field. All it knows is that *something* changed.

If you want to inject human intelligence into the process, create a custom
document property (on the Custom tab of the File > Properties dialog) and a
corresponding DocProperty field in the footer. There are a couple of things
you can do to remind the user to change the property when necessary. The
simplest is to turn on the option "Prompt for document properties" in Tools
intercept the Save command and prompt specifically for the custom property
(see http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/InterceptSavePrint.htm).

Fair enough.
Thanks for your help!