Revision documentation

[April]

I would like to add some programming to our existing document template that
allows for a summary of changes/revisions. What I would like it to do, when
we make a change in a document, is to generate a dialog box that asks for the
Reason for Change (they would click a button to bring up the box), and then
enable us to compile a list of those responses and include them in the
document.

Can Word 2003/2007 do this?

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hello April

I would like to add some programming to our existing document template that
allows for a summary of changes/revisions. What I would like it to do, when
we make a change in a document, is to generate a dialog box that asks for the
Reason for Change (they would click a button to bring up the box), and then
enable us to compile a list of those responses and include them in the
document.

Can Word 2003/2007 do this?

with some programming, sure.

You'd first have to specify what exactly a "change" is. A rather
simplistic approach would be to define that each time the document is
saved, a change has occurred. That way, "all" you need is to trap the
"Save" command, run your macro code intead which brings up the dialog
and afterwards saves.

You'll get more help in one of the .vba groups where the programming
specialists lurk. The following article deals with some aspects of your
problem:

Intercepting events like Save and Print (by Dave Rado, Anna-Karin Bohman
and Jonathan West)
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/InterceptSavePrint.htm

HTH
Robert