Can I change footer in multiple documents at same time?

[Guest]

I have about 60 MS Word documents and need to standardize the format of all
footers. Is there a way to do this simultaneously, without having to open
each individual document? I'm hoping it can be done similar to changing
attributes of multiple worksheets in Excel.
Thanks, Rick

 

[Jay Freedman]

I have about 60 MS Word documents and need to standardize the format of all
footers. Is there a way to do this simultaneously, without having to open
each individual document? I'm hoping it can be done similar to changing
attributes of multiple worksheets in Excel.
Thanks, Rick

The macro technique shown in
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/BatchFR.htm could be adapted
to do what you need. To do the adaptation, though, you'd have to
specify a lot more about the documents and their footers.

Are the documents all in the same folder? Are they the only .doc files
in that folder?

Does any information in the existing footers need to be preserved?
Exactly what goes into the new footers? Do you need to change the
formatting as well as the content, and if so, to what?

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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