Auto Prompt of Properties / suggestions / work-arounds..

[M. Thompson]

Hello,

We are running MS Office 2000 Professional. I have a few
users that "forget" to change the properties of a
document when doing a saveas. Is there any automated add-
on's that I can install to make file this information out
maybe prior to actually saving a document? As it is a
real pain to hover over a file and see incorrect
information. As well as a waste of time to my
Engineers.

Thank You Kindly

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi M.,

You know of the "Prompt for Document Properties" setting in
Tools/Options/Save, I take it? Of course, that would prompt
more often than you perhaps want...

You could certainly add a macro to your templates that would
pop this up whenever someone uses Save As. Or when
certain, specified properties are empty. Whatever you
require.

I don't know of a tool out there, although there may be one.
But it's not too difficult a macro. Right off the top of my
head:

Sub FileSaveAs
'Will execute when this menu command
'is chosen
On Error Resume Next
Dialogs(750).Show
Dialogs(wdDialogFileSaveAs).Show
End Sub

We are running MS Office 2000 Professional. I have a few
users that "forget" to change the properties of a
document when doing a saveas. Is there any automated add-
on's that I can install to make file this information out
maybe prior to actually saving a document? As it is a
real pain to hover over a file and see incorrect
information. As well as a waste of time to my
Engineers.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep
30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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