Insert File Name Dawk 12/30/2008 1:59:01 PM I'm new to Word 2007 (used WordPerfect for many years). I want to insert the file name in many of my document forms and I find the instructions to do this are quite convoluted. In WordPerfect I had a simple icon in the tool bar. All I had to do was click it and the file name would appear. Is there an easier way to insert the file name my documents? Can I put an icon on the Quick Access Tool Bar? Dawk

Re: Insert File Name Jay Freedman <jay.freedman[ at ]verizon.net> 12/30/2008 2:42:11 PM On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:59:01 -0800, Dawk <Dawk[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] >I'm new to Word 2007 (used WordPerfect for many years). I want to insert the >file name in many of my document forms and I find the instructions to do this >are quite convoluted. In WordPerfect I had a simple icon in the tool bar. >All I had to do was click it and the file name would appear. > >Is there an easier way to insert the file name my documents? Can I put an >icon on the Quick Access Tool Bar? > >Dawk Set up a building block for it: Click Office button > New. In the New Document dialog, click in the search box at the top center, type in filename and press Enter. The search results from Office Online should show one template, named "Building Blocks for inserting File Name and Path in the Header or Footer". Click the "I Accept" button on the right, and then the Download button. When a document based on the template appears, follow the instructions. This is a one-time job; after that the file name building block will be in the Header and Footer galleries. It's also possible to create a field "on the fly": At the point where you want the file name, press Ctrl+F9 to insert a pair of field braces, and type between them the word "filename" (without quotes). If you also want the full path, make it "filename \p". Then press F9 (or right-click and choose Update Fields). When you say you have "document forms", do you mean you're making templates? If so, put the filename field in the template, and every document based on that template will inherit the field. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit.

Re: Insert File Name Dawk 12/30/2008 3:58:04 PM Thanks Jay. I will give it a try. The "forms" I do are for my chiropractic office. Things like exam forms etc. Months or years sometimes pass before I need to revamp them. If I don't put the file name on them it may take hours to find them again. Sometimes I do template forms so I would expect that when I change the file name, the footer would also change. Thanks again. "Jay Freedman" wrote: [Quoted Text] > On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:59:01 -0800, Dawk <Dawk[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > > >I'm new to Word 2007 (used WordPerfect for many years). I want to insert the > >file name in many of my document forms and I find the instructions to do this > >are quite convoluted. In WordPerfect I had a simple icon in the tool bar. > >All I had to do was click it and the file name would appear. > > > >Is there an easier way to insert the file name my documents? Can I put an > >icon on the Quick Access Tool Bar? > > > >Dawk > > Set up a building block for it: > > Click Office button > New. In the New Document dialog, click in the search box > at the top center, type in filename and press Enter. The search results from > Office Online should show one template, named "Building Blocks for inserting > File Name and Path in the Header or Footer". Click the "I Accept" button on the > right, and then the Download button. When a document based on the template > appears, follow the instructions. This is a one-time job; after that the file > name building block will be in the Header and Footer galleries. > > It's also possible to create a field "on the fly": At the point where you want > the file name, press Ctrl+F9 to insert a pair of field braces, and type between > them the word "filename" (without quotes). If you also want the full path, make > it "filename \p". Then press F9 (or right-click and choose Update Fields). > > When you say you have "document forms", do you mean you're making templates? If > so, put the filename field in the template, and every document based on that > template will inherit the field. > > -- > Regards, > Jay Freedman > Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org > Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. >