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[Guest]

Hi everybody,
I'm setting up a document in Word 2003 with many INCLUDETEXT fields in it,
once the documents from the fields exist, I'll update the fields to put them
in the document. In the meantime, does anyone know if there's a way to change
the error message, when the file doesn't exist, from "Error! Not a valid
filename!" to "<filename> doesn't yet exist."? That would make things much
easier, so I could remind myself exactly what files I still need.
Thanks a lot!
Jezzica85

 

[macropod]

Hi jezzica85,

You could do an IF test on your INCLUDETEXT fields. For example:
{IF{INCLUDETEXT "C:\\Myfile.doc"}= "Error!*" "Filename doesn't yet exist."
{INCLUDETEXT "C:\\Myfile.doc"}}
Which will give you the error message of your choosing but, unless the
filname can be obtained from a bookmarked reference somewhere else, you
won't be able to get the actual filename into the message.

Cheers

 

[Guest]

Thanks macro,
That was very helpful. Maybe I'll try what you suggested with the bookmarks,
but even if I can't get it to work this already saves me some aggravation.
Thanks again,
Jezzica85

Hi jezzica85,

You could do an IF test on your INCLUDETEXT fields. For example:
{IF{INCLUDETEXT "C:\\Myfile.doc"}= "Error!*" "Filename doesn't yet exist."
{INCLUDETEXT "C:\\Myfile.doc"}}
Which will give you the error message of your choosing but, unless the
filname can be obtained from a bookmarked reference somewhere else, you
won't be able to get the actual filename into the message.

Cheers

--
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]

Hi everybody,
I'm setting up a document in Word 2003 with many INCLUDETEXT fields in it,
once the documents from the fields exist, I'll update the fields to put them
in the document. In the meantime, does anyone know if there's a way to change
the error message, when the file doesn't exist, from "Error! Not a valid
filename!" to "<filename> doesn't yet exist."? That would make things much
easier, so I could remind myself exactly what files I still need.
Thanks a lot!
Jezzica85