Running a macro after document as finished rendering?

[Wayne Butterworth]

Hi,

I'd like to update all of the fields in my document when the doc is opened. To do this, I have put ActiveDocument.Fields.Update in the AutoOpen() macro.
This works, except for the fields that are dependant on the number of pages in the document.

By examining the value of the "Number of pages" property in ActiveDocument.BuiltInDocumentProperties when the macro runs, I see that the number of pages is 3 ( there are actually 26 in my test document ) when the macro runs. If I manually run the macro, the number of pages in this property is correct.

I also found that if I stop the macro for a few seconds, eg by putting a Stop or breakpoint in, the Number of pages property gets updated correctly ( at the same time, I can see the scrollbar changing to reflect the increasing length of the document ).

So, it seems that the AutoOpen() macro runs after the document is loaded into memory ( the full contents are available to the macro ), but before the document is rendered. Is there a way to run a macro after the document is rendered / pagination is finished, or to pause AutoOpen() without user action to restart? Or is there perhaps a better way to update these fields?

thanks,


Wayne.


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[Jay Freedman]

Use the OnTime technique shown in
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/userforms/AutoExecUsertFm.htm. Just replace
the "Tempfm.Show" statement with the ActiveDocument.Fields.Update
statement. Of course, it would be appropriate to rename the ShowForm
macro to something like UpdateAll.

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[Wayne Butterworth]

Thanks Jay.
That works nicely


Wayne.



Jay Freedman wrote:

Use the OnTime technique shown inhttp://word.mvps.
07-Apr-10

Use the OnTime technique shown i
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/userforms/AutoExecUsertFm.htm. Just replac
the "Tempfm.Show" statement with the ActiveDocument.Fields.Updat
statement. Of course, it would be appropriate to rename the ShowFor
macro to something like UpdateAll

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Regards
Jay Freedma
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.or
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