SaveDate in protected form

[proposalwriter]

Is there any way to use the SaveDate field on a PROTECTED form to
automatically enter the date that each user of my form last modified and
saved it? I'd like to put this in the footer, but elsewhere in the document
will do.

I have tried modified versions of several protect/unprotect macros for other
functions (spell check, update fields) that do not seem to work with
SaveDate. The date always displays as a combination of X's and 0's on the
protected form (it works fine on my template.doc).

I am a VBA beginner, so that could be contributing to the problem as well.
Please help!

 

[macropod]

Hi proposalwriter,

You need to either:
.. put the SAVEDATE field in an unprotected Section of your document; or
.. use a macro to unprotect then re-protect the document (preserving the
formfield contents) each time it is saved.

Cheers

 

[Cindy M.]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?cHJvcG9zYWx3cml0ZXI=?=,

Is there any way to use the SaveDate field on a PROTECTED form to
automatically enter the date that each user of my form last modified and
saved it? I'd like to put this in the footer, but elsewhere in the document
will do.

I have tried modified versions of several protect/unprotect macros for other
functions (spell check, update fields) that do not seem to work with
SaveDate. The date always displays as a combination of X's and 0's on the
protected form (it works fine on my template.doc).

A combination of X's and 0's? That's odd. Which version of Word are you using?

Have you inserted any kind of date formatting switch in the SaveDate field?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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