Update Fields

[Sandy]

I do technical support in a law office. Our users only
use Word if our clients demand it. Many, many problems
have arisen, but I'll start with one annoying one:

File paths are enterd on every document, if I change the
name of the document (save as another name, I want the
field (file path)to be updated immediately without having
to print, print preview, or select and update fields by
selecting f9.

Saving and reopening the docoment does not update the
field, why????

 

[Graham Mayor]

That's the way fields work in Word. The following macro should fix it to
work as you require

Sub AutoOpen()
ActiveDocument.PrintPreview
ActiveDocument.ClosePrintPreview
End Sub

See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

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[Stefan Blom]

See the following article:

The FILENAME field does not automatically update when you
open a document in Word 2002 or Word 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;832897&Product=wd2002

Stefan Blom

 

[Guest]

Yes, I've written a macro to update the fields and created
a button on the toolbar, but I want the fields to be
updated when I open the document. Is there any way to
have the macro execute upon opening a document. I,E, is
there a way to edit the Normal.dot template to execute the
macro upon opening every document.

By the way, I forgot to mention that we use Word 2000.

Thanks very much for you quick attention.

 

[Margaret Aldis]

Any macro called AutoOpen (see Grahan's post) does exactly that - runs on
opening every document.