[RESOLVED] Programmatically Updating Footer In Word Document

[Hack]

I have a Word document that will be utilized as a Template.

I have the following place holders as a Footer:

Originator:
Use Cases For:

What I would like to do is prompt the user for his/name and, once entered, update the footer information so that after entering the name, the footer would read:

Originator: Hack

I would like to do the same thing for the second line as well.

I guess my first question would be is this even possible?

[Webtest]

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I don't claim to be a Pro in Word, but here is something I recorded and then munged with. It seems to work ... except that it doesn't close the Header/Footer view. You can figure that out. Just do whatever you need to do to set up the 2 tStr variables that get inserted into the Footer.

Sub Macro3()
    Dim tStr1 As String
    Dim tStr2 As String
    '
    tStr1 = "Hack"
    tStr2 = "This is a TEST"
    
    If ActiveWindow.View.SplitSpecial <> wdPaneNone Then
        ActiveWindow.Panes(2).Close
    End If
    If ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Type = wdNormalView Or ActiveWindow. _
        ActivePane.View.Type = wdOutlineView Then
        ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Type = wdPrintView
    End If
    ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.SeekView = wdSeekCurrentPageHeader
    If Selection.HeaderFooter.IsHeader = True Then
        ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.SeekView = wdSeekCurrentPageFooter
    Else
        ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.SeekView = wdSeekCurrentPageHeader
    End If
    Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
    With Selection.Find
        .Text = "Originator:"
        .Replacement.Text = ""
        .Forward = True
        .Wrap = wdFindContinue
        .Format = False
        .MatchCase = False
        .MatchWholeWord = False
        .MatchWildcards = False
        .MatchSoundsLike = False
        .MatchAllWordForms = False
    End With
    Selection.Find.Execute
    Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
    Selection.TypeText Text:=" " & tStr1
    With Selection.Find
        .Text = "Use Cases For:"
        .Replacement.Text = ""
        .Forward = True
        .Wrap = wdFindContinue
        .Format = False
        .MatchCase = False
        .MatchWholeWord = False
        .MatchWildcards = False
        .MatchSoundsLike = False
        .MatchAllWordForms = False
    End With
    Selection.Find.Execute
    Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
    Selection.TypeText Text:=" " & tStr2
End Sub

I hope this helps!

[DKenny]

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Basically you will need a variable in the document that can contain each of these values. The easiest way I have found to do this in the past is to use the "Custom Document Properties" feature in Word.
Goto File-->>Properties and select the custom tab. Here you can add any properties you need, e.g. Originator. The in your _Open event, you can check to see if that property has a value other than a single space (it has to have some value, space is a good default) and prompt for one if its missing.

Private Sub Document_Open()
Dim MyProp As DocumentProperty
 
    For Each MyProp In ThisDocument.CustomDocumentProperties
        With MyProp
            If .Name = "Originator" Then
                If .Value = " " Then
                    'get your value here,
                    'updating the value property
                    ' and update header/footer
                End If
            End If
        End With
    Next MyProp
End Sub

[Hack]

Two questions:

Once I get a value for Originator, how do I tell it to update the Footer with that value?

Does Word VBA support the InputBox?

[Hack]

Two questions:

Once I get a value for Originator, how do I tell it to update the Footer with that value?

Does Word VBA support the InputBox?

Strike the InputBox question. I have that working and I have a name stored in a string.

I just don't know what to do with it in order to make it show up in the footer as:

Originator: Name_I_Typed

[RobDog888]

Webtest has posted the code necessary for accessing the header or footer.

[zaza]

Incidentally, you can use document variables to store anything you need - just like a variable but stored in the document.

ActiveDocument.Variables.Add Name:="Value1", Value:="1"
MsgBox ActiveDocument.Variables("Value1")

I find them much easier to use than custom properties. Also, you can put them straight into a document using the DOCVARIABLE field. So I'd just insert a DOCVARIABLE field into your footer and then prompt the user for their name (or copy the string) into that document variable, then just update the fields. You could easily do the same for the second case too.


zaza

[Hack]

Webtest has posted the code necessary for accessing the header or footer.

So he has, and it works.

Ok...final question...how do I automatically close the Header/Footer view?

[RobDog888]

Something like so.

ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Type = wdPrintView

[Webtest]

WUZZAMATTA Hack ... you don't like the code I dished up especially for you?

[Webtest]

Record a macro while you close the Header/Footer view. I did nearly the whole code in my post in Record Macro! (That's why it looks so kludgy!)

Edit: RobDog made it too easy for you!

Thanks, RobDog!

[RobDog888]

And I plagerized it in my previous post

[Hack]

WUZZAMATTA Hack ... you don't like the code I dished up especially for you?

I love your code, am using it.

[Hack]

Edit: RobDog made it too easy for you!

I'm sure I could have figured it out, but after all this time I felt that it was my turn to play noob.

It actually felt kinda good.

[RobDog888]

Glad I'm not the only one that gets to feel like a noob. Currently being a noob at ASP.NET

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