Path and filenames in footers

[Guest]

I have numerous Word files where I insert the path and filename in the
footer. These files are updated weekly and saved as a new filename with a
different date. The filename doesn't automatically change in the footer when
I do a save as with the new date.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Such fields do not *automatically* update. Update the field manually. A
macro to do this can be found at http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

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[edeaston]

Hi Graham,

I am being completely stupid here but I followed your link and got the macro
to update which works fine but I want to run it when the document is opened
but I cant figure out how to add AutoOpen into that Macro - what would you
suggest? In case you cant tell I'm no VBA expert...

Thanks

Ed

 

[Stefan Blom]

Just change the name of the UpdateAll macro to AutoOpen and make sure to
store it in the Normal template:

Sub AutoOpen()
Dim oStory As Range
For Each oStory In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges
oStory.Fields.Update
If oStory.StoryType <> wdMainTextStory Then
While Not (oStory.NextStoryRange Is Nothing)
Set oStory = oStory.NextStoryRange
oStory.Fields.Update
Wend
End If
Next oStory
Set oStory = Nothing
End Sub

Any fields in any document opened in Word will then update.

A possible side-effect is that it will take longer time to open documents
(especially long documents with many fields).

 

[edeaston]

Thanks for that Stefan - its just the answer I was after!

Cheers

Ed

 

[Stefan Blom]

You are welcome--and thank you for the feedback.