Word Fields

[Guest]

Why would some fields in a Word 2003 document automatically update and others
won't?

For example, the filename filed updates as it should, but in order to have
the lastsavedby and savedate fields update, I have to go into the fields
(that are in a footer) and F9 to get them to update.

Shouldn't they all auto update?

Thanks.

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

No, that don't. An easy to get them to is to Preview the printing of the
document and then close the Print Preview.

It can be done with a macro

With ActiveDocument
.PrintPreview
.ClosePrintPreview
End With

That runs so quickly that you would hardly notice it.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP