FILL IN FIELDS Question

[Guest]

Hi all,

My question is why does the FILLIN field prompt automatically on open in
previous versions of Word but not in Word 2003. The funny thing is that if I
create the document template in Word 2003 and open it in Open Office it
prompts when I open the template, and in previous versions of word it also
prompts on open, but not Word 2003.

Is there a update fields tick box setting on open setting somewhere in Word
2003?

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

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My question is why does the FILLIN field prompt automatically on open in
previous versions of Word but not in Word 2003. The funny thing is that if I
create the document template in Word 2003 and open it in Open Office it
prompts when I open the template, and in previous versions of word it also
prompts on open, but not Word 2003.

Is there a update fields tick box setting on open setting somewhere in Word
2003?

Fillin fields only prompt automatically when you create a new document from a
template. This has been the case since Word 95 (or 97). If you're opening the
template, or a document created from the template, the prompts will NOT appear
automatically. To force this, you'd need a macro.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Anton Santa]

Normaly Word should not update the fields when opening (see options); should
the field sit in the header or footer word prompts you the fillin when
changing from normal to page-layout, when doing a preview or when printing.
To avoid this you can lock the field (select it and press Ctrl-F11, to
unlock Shift-Ctrl-F11), to update it manually select it and press F9; To
update fields in the body (maintext) always when opening add an
AutoOpen-Macro with ActiveDocument.Fields.Update. Should you have TextBoxes
with fields they are not updated, you need special macro-code to access them
(see help for StoryRanges).
Hope this helps
Toni