Auto Revision Numbers

[Guest]

We need to add a footer to certain documents that will show the name of the
person making the last modification and also a custom version number. I need
help with the latter. I would like it to increment by letter, following the
name of the document if possible. For example:

mydocnameA.doc
mydocnameB.doc
mydocnameC.doc

We are still using Office 2003.

Thanks

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hi PJ

We need to add a footer to certain documents that will show the name of the
person making the last modification and also a custom version number. I need
help with the latter. I would like it to increment by letter, following the
name of the document if possible. For example:

mydocnameA.doc
mydocnameB.doc
mydocnameC.doc

We are still using Office 2003.

Do you want to save the document itself under the revised name, or only
show that thing in the footer?

If the former:

Graham Mayor has published a macro doing the former at:
http://www.gmayor.com/save_numbered_versions.htm

This could be adjusted to use numbering "A, B, ...", I'm sure.

Then all you need to do is show a FILENAME field in the footer.

The question is, though, _when_ you want this number to update (in
either cases ).

2cents
Robert