Updating Document Properties in lots of headers and footers EPA 6/28/2007 11:06:01 AM (Word 2003 on Windows XP) If you have many sections, all with different first page, different odd and even, you can have three headers and three footers to update for each section whenever you change a document property (e.g. security classification) that is referenced in all of the footers (no, I don't want it like that, but someone else "in authority" does). Is there an easy way to update all of these, without actually printing the document? I'd like it to be automatic: I've seen plenty of cases where people have forgotten to update both the odd and the even footer, even when there's only one section in a document. I've seen the exchange between Nuzza and Lene in Feb/Mar this year, but I don't know enough about VBA to determine whether the UpdateAll code does what I want. -- Ted

Re: Updating Document Properties in lots of headers and footers "Graham Mayor" <gmayor[ at ]REMOVETHISmvps.org> 6/28/2007 2:38:05 PM Without digging back through the archives, I don't know which code you are referring to, but the sample macro at http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm should update the document including all the headers and footers. -- <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> EPA wrote: [Quoted Text] > (Word 2003 on Windows XP) If you have many sections, all with > different first page, different odd and even, you can have three > headers and three footers to update for each section whenever you > change a document property (e.g. security classification) that is > referenced in all of the footers (no, I don't want it like that, but > someone else "in authority" does). Is there an easy way to update > all of these, without actually printing the document? I'd like it to > be automatic: I've seen plenty of cases where people have forgotten > to update both the odd and the even footer, even when there's only > one section in a document. I've seen the exchange between Nuzza and > Lene in Feb/Mar this year, but I don't know enough about VBA to > determine whether the UpdateAll code does what I want.

Re: Updating Document Properties in lots of headers and footers "Peter Jamieson" <pjj[ at ]KillmapSpjjnet.demon.co.uk> 6/28/2007 4:55:42 PM It should. In the past I've never been sure about fields in shapes within headers and footers etc. but another experiment suggests it's OK after all. You can "simplify" the code of UpdateAll marginally to Sub UpdateAllFields() Dim objRange As Word.Range For Each objRange In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do objRange.Fields.Update Set objRange = objRange.NextStoryRange Loop Until objRange Is Nothing Next End Sub Peter Jamieson "EPA" <EPA[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:676E00C5-EE20-4ACA-AB8D-E4437393E557[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > (Word 2003 on Windows XP) If you have many sections, all with different > first page, different odd and even, you can have three headers and three > footers to update for each section whenever you change a document property > (e.g. security classification) that is referenced in all of the footers > (no, > I don't want it like that, but someone else "in authority" does). Is > there > an easy way to update all of these, without actually printing the > document? > I'd like it to be automatic: I've seen plenty of cases where people have > forgotten to update both the odd and the even footer, even when there's > only > one section in a document. I've seen the exchange between Nuzza and Lene > in > Feb/Mar this year, but I don't know enough about VBA to determine whether > the > UpdateAll code does what I want. > -- > Ted