document template - how to get autotext field update when saved

[Guest]

In MS Word, is there a way a document template can be set up to allow the
autotext field 'filename' to be updated automatically when work is saved into
a new word document?

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=832897 "The FILENAME field
does not automatically update when you open a document in Word
2002 or Word 2003".

 

[Guest]

Thanks for you response. More directly, my question is when saving work from
a document template into a document, is there a way to make that new
document filename show up in the FILENAME field?

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

In Word, a template is a .dot file, and a document is a .doc
file. You would not normally save work from a document template
into a document. You should create a new document based upon a
template, and then save the document to the filename of your
choice. The filename field is not updated automatically upon
save. Method 1 in the referenced KB article can be used at any
time to update the filename field. You might be able to create a
FileSave() macro that saves the file and updates the filename
field.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Take a look at
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/File_Name_And_Path.htm.

Hope this helps,
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[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

The FILENAME field always contains the file name of the document in which
the field resides.

If you copy the filename field into a new document ore template, the field
will return the file name of the new document or template.

Read the article the pasta-infatuated one sent you to to see how to overcome
a bug in the design of the mechanism.

Cheers

Thanks for you response. More directly, my question is when saving work from
a document template into a document, is there a way to make that new
document filename show up in the FILENAME field?

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