Repost re. autotext addition of filepath & name >

[Guest]

Can someone please reply? I am getting frustrated at not being able to do
this.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...&p=1&tid=bda6aff1-ab8f-4dbd-83b0-d53dec5c7b29

In peace,
Max

 

[Charles Kenyon]

See reply to original post.

 

[Guest]

Try Alt-F9 (toggle field code display)...<

Okay, I think I am missing something (I am really a Word beginner). Do I
just open up the document, position my curser somewhere at the end of the
text, and hold down Alt and then hit F9? And after I do that, then what
should happen? I don't know what a field code is. Or am I supposed to go to
the Insert>autotext drop-down menu and click Alt-F9 somewhere there?

Thanks again.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Anywhere in your document press Alt-F9. It changes how field codes (like the
Filename field) display. If you have a Date field in your document, look at
that when you toggle the display.

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[Guest]

AHA! But the only field code in the document is one hyperlink. When I went
to insert the filename and path, it inserted the same text I mentioned in the
earlier post (that is, the actual words Filename and path. And when I
toggled field codes, those words did not change their format (as did the
hyperlink; I checked that part of the document). Something was accidentally
moved or deleted from those drop-down menus, I think, and I am afraid it was
by myself not paying attention at some point. Can you help me get it back to
the way it should be?

Anywhere in your document press Alt-F9. It changes how field codes (like the
Filename field) display. If you have a Date field in your document, look at
that when you toggle the display.

--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide


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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Delete the "Filename and path" AutoText entry. Then insert this field:

{ FILENAME \p }

You must press Ctrl+F9 to insert the field delimiters (the things that look
like braces but aren't), then type between them.

Select that field, press Alt+F3, and give your new AutoText entry the name
"Filename and path."

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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AHA! But the only field code in the document is one hyperlink. When I went
to insert the filename and path, it inserted the same text I mentioned in the
earlier post (that is, the actual words Filename and path. And when I
toggled field codes, those words did not change their format (as did the
hyperlink; I checked that part of the document). Something was accidentally
moved or deleted from those drop-down menus, I think, and I am afraid it was
by myself not paying attention at some point. Can you help me get it back to
the way it should be?