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Text Form Field Ref in Footer Won't Update on Screen
Hi,
I have a number of templates (.dot) that use a text form field (users double click on the field and enter their document number into the default text field, change no other options, and click OK) to reference the document number in the footer of each document page. The reference to the text form field WAS (in 97) set up as a Field reference to a bookmark. When users would save their documents in 97, the field would update and they would see their new document number appear in footer of all the pages if they opened and closed the document. In Word 2003, a document from a 97 template, even after being opened and closed, WILL NOT update the document number in the footer on the screen (they do print correctly, and IF a print-preview is done THEN the document view will properly update on the screen, but they refuse to update on screen by just saving the document, by just saving and re-opening the document). A lot of our users do their work electronically, save their work, then send it to another department before it ever gets printed (so they wouldn't be forced into a print preview or a print, which forces the field updates and the eventual save). I have rebuilt the Text Form Field (Inserted a Text Form Field, [type: regular text, no macro for entry or exit (there was not one set in 97), bookmark name: doc_num, fill-in enabled (tried with this on and off), calculate on exit (tried with this on and off)]), and rebuilt the Field reference (Insert Field, [field name: Ref, bookmark name: doc_num]). I thought maybe that rebuilding the either of these would have some kind of affect. I know that there is the option to update fields at print, but we cannot use that here (we format our TOCs a certain way and if they are updated after the fact, it ruins some of that formatting). Is there some way to force the Bookmark to the text field in the footer to update when the document is saved? Is there a macro that can be built for this and then distributed to everyone (I don't know how to build macros) or some other way to do this? Can anyone help? Thank you so much. |
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