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Default Is this possible...?

Now that sounds interesting! Yes, I have and run macros but could you point
me in the right direction to find out how to do this, please.

"Ed" wrote in message
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If your work environment allows you to have and run macros, what you could
do is set up a special "SaveAs" macro that resides on your computer which
not only saves the document but creates a Document variable with your name
and the date of saving. You can't make the others change what _they_ do,
but ~you~ can do something different!

Ed

"josi" wrote in message
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This may seem a very strange question but is something I have been
thinking
about for a while. This is the situation:

I work in an office as the only typist for several people. At the top of
letters is a reference made up of the initials, in upper case, of the
person
who has dictated (or handwritten) the letter followed by an oblique
stroke
and my initials (in lower case letters).

So far, so good. However, if I am absent for any reason, the people type
their own letters by using a previous document and Save As..., or even
type
a letter from scratch. They always use the same reference at the top of
the
letter (i.e. including my initials).

Apart from an element of pride (I confess!) as they aren't very accurate
typists, this can lead to confusion when at some future date, they query
something which I have supposedly typed.

What I would love to do is to find some way of unobtrusively indicating
in a
document when I have actually typed it. I have thought of entering
somethng
in the document properties but that wouldn't work when they use Save
As...

Any ideas, please?