[snulton]

Thank you! One more thing, how do I have different documents have their own
sets of sequencial numbers? Right now the sequence is working but I am using
the same "Order" in four different documents, two different contracts, one
bid proposal and one invoice.

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

You can do either of two things:

- In the template, insert continuous-type section breaks before and after
the paragraph containing the bookmark. When you protect the document (using
the Tools Protect Document menu item, not the lock icon on the Forms
toolbar), click the "Select sections" link and uncheck the section that
contains the bookmark.

- Or, in the macro, insert new code before and after the InsertBefore line
like this:

If ActiveDocument.ProtectionType wdNoProtection Then
ActiveDocument.Unprotect
End If

ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("Order").Range.InsertBefo re Format(Order,
"0000#")

ActiveDocument.Protect

ActiveDocument.SaveAs FileName:="path" & Format(Order, "0000#")


That will turn off the protection just long enough to insert the sequence
number, and then turn the protection on again.

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snulton wrote:
I now recieve a Run-time error `4605`
This method or property is not available because the object refers to
a protected area of the document.

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

That error is telling you that VBA couldn't find any bookmark named
"Order" in your document. Look again at the article -- the second
paragraph begins "In the template from which you create the
document, insert a bookmark named Order in the location where you
want the sequential number to appear."

snulton wrote:
I have almost completely started over due to receiving a Microsoft
Visual Basic Run-time error `5941'
The requested memer of the collection does not exist.

When I click on the Debug button the line reading
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("Order").Range.InsertBefo re Format(Order,
"00#")
is hi-lited.

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

Hi Scott,

In VBA, every "Sub" statement must have a matching "End Sub"
statement, with all the commands of the macro in between. You have
a "Sub MAIN()" statement without any matching "End Sub". Delete the
"Sub Main()" line (and optionally also delete the four lines of
comments that follow it). Then the "Sub AutoNew()" will match the
"End Sub" at the bottom of the code, and that should stop the error
message.

snulton wrote:
Sorry that it has taken so long to get back to you with the on
going challenge, I was out of town last week and finally got
caught up.

After setting up the Macro, upon opening a document I get a
variety of error messeges one of which says "Compile error:
Expected End Sub"

This is what I have set up:


Sub MAIN()
'
' AutoExec.MAIN Macro
' Macro created 10/5/2007 by Scott Nulton
'
Sub AutoNew()

Order = System.PrivateProfileString("C:\Settings.Txt",
"MacroSettings", "Order")

If Order = "" Then
Order = 1
Else
Order = Order + 1
End If

System.PrivateProfileString("C:\.txt", "MacroSettings", "Order") =
Order

ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("Order").Range.InsertBefo re
Format(Order, "0000#")
ActiveDocument.SaveAs FileName:="path" & Format(Order, "0000#")



End Sub



"Jay Freedman" wrote:

I think you're misunderstanding the "00#" expression. That is
just supposed to represent the form of the number -- how many
digits to display -- and not the number itself. You don't change
that expression
to the start number.

From the example you gave, I suspect what you're trying to do is
create a number where the first four digits are the year, the
next two
are the month, and the last two are a sequence number that starts
over
at 1 for each month. If that's true, you're going about it wrong
-- if
you put the fixed string "200710" at the beginning, that's fine
for October 2007 but it will be wrong for November, and even
more wrong next year. The macro can take care of the year and
month for you with just a little extra programming. Replace the
lines

ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("Order").Range.InsertBefo re
Format(Order, "00#")
ActiveDocument.SaveAs FileName:="path" & Format(Order, "00#")

with these lines (to avoid mistakes, use copy/paste instead of
trying to retype):

ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("Order").Range.InsertBefo re _
Format(Now, "yyyyMM") & Format(Order, "0#")
ActiveDocument.SaveAs FileName:="path" & _
Format(Now, "yyyyMM") & Format(Order, "0#")

Note that you have to replace "path" in the third line with the
actual
path to the folder where you want the document to be saved.

The other thing is that, on the first day of each month, you have
to delete the Settings.txt file and let the macro create a new
one that contains the number 1, so the number in the first
document will be like 20071101.

On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 16:46:02 -0700, snulton
wrote:

It was'nt in my Templates folder because I was testing it out
before I put it on my Server which is where I store all my
templates related to my business. I tried to preset the start
number to the next one that we need (i.e."2007100#") but it did
not open a successive number it opened a document with a number
2007100120071001. The same thing happened when I had only the
three digit number 001 turned into 001001 and it was that way on
each one I opened.

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

Did you set up the macro in a template stored in your Templates
folder? Word really doesn't like macros in documents, or in
templates that aren't in the Templates folder, because that's a
favorite way to spread macro viruses.

Assuming it is in a template, go to Tools Macro Security
and set the security level to Medium. On the second tab of the
dialog, check the box for "Trust all installed templates and
add-ins". That should make sure the macros are enabled.

The number-format pattern will work with eight digits; just
change it to "0000000#".

On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 16:08:01 -0700, snulton
wrote:

I have set up the Macro as on the page however when I attempt
to open the template Microsoft Basic pops up with the messege
"The macros in this project are disabled. Please refer to the
online help or documentation of the host application to
determine how to enable macros." then I got a popup trying
to debug the first of the last two commands.

Also is the value "00#" a locked in numeric value or will it
work with eight digits?

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

snulton wrote:
I have a template that has a space for a number. I want each
successive document opened using that template to have a new
number that is the next number in sucession, i.e. - after
opening 20071001, the next time that I access that template
should open 2001002.

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/NumberDocs.htm.


--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
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