[RESOLVED] Annoying...

[Kubull]

Hi All,

I'm having a little issue with word 2003, in my office we use a custom normal.dot for just about everything (cooking, cleaning, storing beer, ya know the usual), one of the thing we used was an updatable field in the footer, showing the path of the document.

At initial open from the .dot, it would display document1 (as per the norm) then when you save a new doc from the .dot, close that document, and reopen it the footer would change to show the location path of where the docment is. That is when we used Word 2000.

after much searching I found this artical from MS (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832897) about the fact that the auto update of fields a pone opening has been switched off in 2003 to allow a fast open response from word, but they kindly supplied a code to help with this.
IE:

Sub AutoOpen()
'
' AutoOpen Macro
' Macro created date by username
'

   Dim aStory As Range
   Dim aField As Field

   For Each aStory In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges

      For Each aField In aStory.Fields
         aField.Update
      Next aField

   Next aStory

End Sub

The code works the first time you open word, but after you save a doc close it then reopen to check if the code will work to diplay the new location, it doesn't. unless you switch views to normal then back to print layout, which is daft to do that every time.

Is there an way to amend the above code to update the code every time like word 2000.

[BillBoeBaggins]

What event do you have the code under? Mine fires every time I open any document.

Private Sub Document_Open()
    MsgBox "Dude, Test."
End Sub

[Kubull]

It was under auto-new, but that didn't work, I changed it doc open, but still requires me to switch between views before the changes happens

[westconn1]

you can try this
ActiveDocument.Fields.Update

[Kubull]

Thanks Westconn, I think its just doing it to spite me! i've put it in a new macro and set my security to medium, saved and exited, reopened and nothing, still won't update till I switch from print layout to normal view and back again...

would it be better if I placed the code in a different spot like under templateProject(Normal) - Microsoft Word Objects - This document. Would that make any difference?

[westconn1]

I think its just doing it to spite me!

i just think word is like that
try togglefieldcodes twice, show the field codes then back