Saving backups

[Samuel Marin]

Hi. I am new to VBA for Word but I already know a couple of things in VBA for
Excel. I'd like to program an autosave sub that would save a .doc file
automatically to a specified location (on my home network) each time the
'save' button is pressed. I have seen in the VBA help that it can be done
through a Class module and an event handler. I am afraid this is far from
what I can take.
Can anyone think of a simpler solution? Or would anyone take some of their
time to explain such basic programming to one in need?
Thanks a lot.

Sam.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

It has already been written by Graham Mayor.
http://gmayor.com/automatically_backup.htm
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[Samuel Marin]

Hi.
Neat information, this. My thanks. However this does not solve my problem
completely as the macro needs to be activated manually. I really need that
event handler that will start the autosave Sub when I press the standard
'save' icon.
Can anyone think of a simple enough way to perform this?

Sam.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

He shows how to put it on a button. You can put in on your Save button if
you want.

If you want, you can even intercept the variations on the Save command so
that you will have no choice in the matter.
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/InterceptSavePrint.htm
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[Charles Kenyon]

The article tells you how to put it on your toolbar so you can click the
button for this kind of save instead if you want.

If you really don't want to give yourself any choice, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/InterceptSavePrint.htm.
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