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How do I set up automatically suceeding numbers in Word?
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. |
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How do I set up automatically suceeding numbers in Word?
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 Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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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 Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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How do I set up automatically suceeding numbers in Word?
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 Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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How do I set up automatically suceeding numbers in Word?
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 Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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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 Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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How do I set up automatically suceeding numbers in Word?
I hope that I didn't upset you with my insessent questions, but I am going
to repost this: I am probably beginning to sound really stupid. So let me see if I have it from the beginning. First I open a template (.dot) which automatically creates a document (.doc) that has a name "Document* (* = the number of the document opened and saved) then in that document I go to File New which opens a task pane that I then click on the Link for "On my Computer", I then receive a new Template (.dot) named "path0*****.dot, I then set my bookmark where I want the sequential numbers and then Go to Tools Macro Macros and am given a choice in the window that opens a blank space for Macro name, a bigger area that has AutoExec.MAIN, AutoExit.MAIN, and RunFineReader, with active buttons "Create", "Organizer", and "Close". Logic tells me that I would then "Create" AutoNew. This then opens Microsoft Visual Basic which has a panel that has a choice of "FineReader6SprintTools", "Normal", "Project (Document 1)" (with no modules), "TemplateProject (Live Meeting Toolbar Customizations)" and finally "TemplateProject (SerRepCon)" [the name of the original template], both the "Project (Document 1)" and the "TemplateProject (SerRepCon)" have "ThisDocument" when opening "Microsoft Word Objects". Which one do I use? The code window that opens caries the header of whichever main catagory is highlighted. This is the window that I put the AutoNew language. After this is done I would then click on the Save icon on the toolbar in Microsoft Visual Basic and shut window. then I would go to File SaveAs and name the document the same as the name used in the Macro before "sequence". Is this correct? Inf not Please correct within the messege. "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 Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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How do I set up automatically suceeding numbers in Word?
Hi Scott,
I'm not upset; this is a complicated setup. But it does seem that you missed some fundamental principles, and I'm glad of the chance to start at the bottom and clear things up. Your paragraph "First I open a template ..." is not correct. Please wipe that blackboard clean, and we'll start from the beginning. I'll assume you have a template named SerRepCon.dot that contains the text of a contract. Within that text are some form fields. For each customer, you want to make a document based on the template, in which the form fields will be filled in differently. Some place in the document you want to put a sequence number that will be different for each document, and that number will also become part of the document's file name. Right so far? I'll also assume that at this point the SerRepCon.dot template doesn't contain any macros, and that the template file is stored in your Templates folder (something like C:\Documents and Settings\snulton\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates). Start the Word program. Click File Open (_not_ File New at this time). Set the "Files of type" dropdown to "Document Templates (*.dot)". Use the "Look in" dropdown to navigate to the Templates folder, select SerRepCon.dot, and click OK. You're now able to edit the SerRepCon.dot template itself, not any document based on it. Put the cursor in the location where you want the sequence number to appear, and insert a bookmark named "Order". That same bookmark will automatically appear in each document you base on this template. Open the VBA editor. The Projects pane should include icons for Normal (because Normal.dot is always loaded), FineReader6SprintTools (which is an add-in from the FineReader program), Live Meeting Toolbar Customizations (another add-in), and SerRepCon. If you followed the directions exactly, there shouldn't be any others -- but if there are, ignore them. Select and expand the icon for "TemplateProject (SerRepCon)". It should contain a folder named "Microsoft Word Objects", in which there is a "ThisDocument" icon. Ignore those. Click the Insert Module command on the menu (in the VBA editor, not in Word's window). That will create a Modules folder under "TemplateProject (SerRepCon)", containing a "Module1" icon. To verify that you're in the right place, the code window should be empty and the title bar should say "Microsoft Visual Basic - SerRepCon - [Module1 (Code)]". Click in the code window and paste in the code of the AutoNew macro from our recent posts. Make sure it includes the lines to unprotect and reprotect the form. The two lines that mention System.PrivateProfileString should contain "C:\SerRepCon Sequence.txt" as the name of the file to contain the current sequence number. Close the VBA editor. Turn on form protection (click the lock icon on the Forms toolbar), save the template, and close it. Open the File New dialog (_not_ File Open -- now you're going to create a document based on the template). Select the SerRepCon template and click OK. You should see a document named "path00001.doc" that is a protected form with the sequence number 00001 at the place marked by the Order bookmark. Each time you go to File New and select the SerRepCon template as the basis for a new document, you should get another document and the sequence number should be greater by 1 than the one before. Now repeat all the previous steps for the template of another kind of form; the only difference should be that the lines that mention System.PrivateProfileString should contain the name of a different text file -- one related to that particular template. By the way, I don't think you really want the word "path" as part of the document's filename. The reason it's there now is that the original article on word.mvps.org shows it there -- but it was meant to represent the folder location (that is, the path from C:\ to the folder where you want the document to be stored), not the literal word "path". If you just want to store all the documents in the My Documents folder, you could change the Save statement to something like ActiveDocument.SaveAs FileName:="SerRepCon" & Format(Order, "0000#") so the actual name of a document based on this template would be something like SerRepCon00001.doc. Because the filename doesn't contain any information about the folder, Word automatically uses whatever folder you have set as the Documents location in the Tools Options File Locations dialog -- and by default that's the My Documents folder. -- 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. snulton wrote: I hope that I didn't upset you with my insessent questions, but I am going to repost this: I am probably beginning to sound really stupid. So let me see if I have it from the beginning. First I open a template (.dot) which automatically creates a document (.doc) that has a name "Document* (* = the number of the document opened and saved) then in that document I go to File New which opens a task pane that I then click on the Link for "On my Computer", I then receive a new Template (.dot) named "path0*****.dot, I then set my bookmark where I want the sequential numbers and then Go to Tools Macro Macros and am given a choice in the window that opens a blank space for Macro name, a bigger area that has AutoExec.MAIN, AutoExit.MAIN, and RunFineReader, with active buttons "Create", "Organizer", and "Close". Logic tells me that I would then "Create" AutoNew. This then opens Microsoft Visual Basic which has a panel that has a choice of "FineReader6SprintTools", "Normal", "Project (Document 1)" (with no modules), "TemplateProject (Live Meeting Toolbar Customizations)" and finally "TemplateProject (SerRepCon)" [the name of the original template], both the "Project (Document 1)" and the "TemplateProject (SerRepCon)" have "ThisDocument" when opening "Microsoft Word Objects". Which one do I use? The code window that opens caries the header of whichever main catagory is highlighted. This is the window that I put the AutoNew language. After this is done I would then click on the Save icon on the toolbar in Microsoft Visual Basic and shut window. then I would go to File SaveAs and name the document the same as the name used in the Macro before "sequence". Is this correct? Inf not Please correct within the messege. "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 Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Thank you Jay;
I got it to work, however if the lock icon is clicked to protect the form when that template is accessed an Error messege: "Run-time error `4605` This method or property is not available because the object refers to a protected area of the document. appears. When clicking on "De-bug" The VBA opens the AutoNew window and highlites the second to last line before "End Sub" But without the document "protected" the numbering works. Thanks again "Jay Freedman" wrote: Hi Scott, I'm not upset; this is a complicated setup. But it does seem that you missed some fundamental principles, and I'm glad of the chance to start at the bottom and clear things up. Your paragraph "First I open a template ..." is not correct. Please wipe that blackboard clean, and we'll start from the beginning. I'll assume you have a template named SerRepCon.dot that contains the text of a contract. Within that text are some form fields. For each customer, you want to make a document based on the template, in which the form fields will be filled in differently. Some place in the document you want to put a sequence number that will be different for each document, and that number will also become part of the document's file name. Right so far? I'll also assume that at this point the SerRepCon.dot template doesn't contain any macros, and that the template file is stored in your Templates folder (something like C:\Documents and Settings\snulton\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates). Start the Word program. Click File Open (_not_ File New at this time). Set the "Files of type" dropdown to "Document Templates (*.dot)". Use the "Look in" dropdown to navigate to the Templates folder, select SerRepCon.dot, and click OK. You're now able to edit the SerRepCon.dot template itself, not any document based on it. Put the cursor in the location where you want the sequence number to appear, and insert a bookmark named "Order". That same bookmark will automatically appear in each document you base on this template. Open the VBA editor. The Projects pane should include icons for Normal (because Normal.dot is always loaded), FineReader6SprintTools (which is an add-in from the FineReader program), Live Meeting Toolbar Customizations (another add-in), and SerRepCon. If you followed the directions exactly, there shouldn't be any others -- but if there are, ignore them. Select and expand the icon for "TemplateProject (SerRepCon)". It should contain a folder named "Microsoft Word Objects", in which there is a "ThisDocument" icon. Ignore those. Click the Insert Module command on the menu (in the VBA editor, not in Word's window). That will create a Modules folder under "TemplateProject (SerRepCon)", containing a "Module1" icon. To verify that you're in the right place, the code window should be empty and the title bar should say "Microsoft Visual Basic - SerRepCon - [Module1 (Code)]". Click in the code window and paste in the code of the AutoNew macro from our recent posts. Make sure it includes the lines to unprotect and reprotect the form. The two lines that mention System.PrivateProfileString should contain "C:\SerRepCon Sequence.txt" as the name of the file to contain the current sequence number. Close the VBA editor. Turn on form protection (click the lock icon on the Forms toolbar), save the template, and close it. Open the File New dialog (_not_ File Open -- now you're going to create a document based on the template). Select the SerRepCon template and click OK. You should see a document named "path00001.doc" that is a protected form with the sequence number 00001 at the place marked by the Order bookmark. Each time you go to File New and select the SerRepCon template as the basis for a new document, you should get another document and the sequence number should be greater by 1 than the one before. Now repeat all the previous steps for the template of another kind of form; the only difference should be that the lines that mention System.PrivateProfileString should contain the name of a different text file -- one related to that particular template. By the way, I don't think you really want the word "path" as part of the document's filename. The reason it's there now is that the original article on word.mvps.org shows it there -- but it was meant to represent the folder location (that is, the path from C:\ to the folder where you want the document to be stored), not the literal word "path". If you just want to store all the documents in the My Documents folder, you could change the Save statement to something like ActiveDocument.SaveAs FileName:="SerRepCon" & Format(Order, "0000#") so the actual name of a document based on this template would be something like SerRepCon00001.doc. Because the filename doesn't contain any information about the folder, Word automatically uses whatever folder you have set as the Documents location in the Tools Options File Locations dialog -- and by default that's the My Documents folder. -- 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. snulton wrote: I hope that I didn't upset you with my insessent questions, but I am going to repost this: I am probably beginning to sound really stupid. So let me see if I have it from the beginning. First I open a template (.dot) which automatically creates a document (.doc) that has a name "Document* (* = the number of the document opened and saved) then in that document I go to File New which opens a task pane that I then click on the Link for "On my Computer", I then receive a new Template (.dot) named "path0*****.dot, I then set my bookmark where I want the sequential numbers and then Go to Tools Macro Macros and am given a choice in the window that opens a blank space for Macro name, a bigger area that has AutoExec.MAIN, AutoExit.MAIN, and RunFineReader, with active buttons "Create", "Organizer", and "Close". Logic tells me that I would then "Create" AutoNew. This then opens Microsoft Visual Basic which has a panel that has a choice of "FineReader6SprintTools", "Normal", "Project (Document 1)" (with no modules), "TemplateProject (Live Meeting Toolbar Customizations)" and finally "TemplateProject (SerRepCon)" [the name of the original template], both the "Project (Document 1)" and the "TemplateProject (SerRepCon)" have "ThisDocument" when opening "Microsoft Word Objects". Which one do I use? The code window that opens caries the header of whichever main catagory is highlighted. This is the window that I put the AutoNew language. After this is done I would then click on the Save icon on the toolbar in Microsoft Visual Basic and shut window. then I would go to File SaveAs and name the document the same as the name used in the Macro before "sequence". Is this correct? Inf not Please correct within the messege. "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 Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Did you include the code to unprotect the document and the code to protect
the document? This was in my post of 10/182007: - ... 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. -- 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. snulton wrote: Thank you Jay; I got it to work, however if the lock icon is clicked to protect the form when that template is accessed an Error messege: "Run-time error `4605` This method or property is not available because the object refers to a protected area of the document. appears. When clicking on "De-bug" The VBA opens the AutoNew window and highlites the second to last line before "End Sub" But without the document "protected" the numbering works. Thanks again "Jay Freedman" wrote: Hi Scott, I'm not upset; this is a complicated setup. But it does seem that you missed some fundamental principles, and I'm glad of the chance to start at the bottom and clear things up. Your paragraph "First I open a template ..." is not correct. Please wipe that blackboard clean, and we'll start from the beginning. I'll assume you have a template named SerRepCon.dot that contains the text of a contract. Within that text are some form fields. For each customer, you want to make a document based on the template, in which the form fields will be filled in differently. Some place in the document you want to put a sequence number that will be different for each document, and that number will also become part of the document's file name. Right so far? I'll also assume that at this point the SerRepCon.dot template doesn't contain any macros, and that the template file is stored in your Templates folder (something like C:\Documents and Settings\snulton\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates). Start the Word program. Click File Open (_not_ File New at this time). Set the "Files of type" dropdown to "Document Templates (*.dot)". Use the "Look in" dropdown to navigate to the Templates folder, select SerRepCon.dot, and click OK. You're now able to edit the SerRepCon.dot template itself, not any document based on it. Put the cursor in the location where you want the sequence number to appear, and insert a bookmark named "Order". That same bookmark will automatically appear in each document you base on this template. Open the VBA editor. The Projects pane should include icons for Normal (because Normal.dot is always loaded), FineReader6SprintTools (which is an add-in from the FineReader program), Live Meeting Toolbar Customizations (another add-in), and SerRepCon. If you followed the directions exactly, there shouldn't be any others -- but if there are, ignore them. Select and expand the icon for "TemplateProject (SerRepCon)". It should contain a folder named "Microsoft Word Objects", in which there is a "ThisDocument" icon. Ignore those. Click the Insert Module command on the menu (in the VBA editor, not in Word's window). That will create a Modules folder under "TemplateProject (SerRepCon)", containing a "Module1" icon. To verify that you're in the right place, the code window should be empty and the title bar should say "Microsoft Visual Basic - SerRepCon - [Module1 (Code)]". Click in the code window and paste in the code of the AutoNew macro from our recent posts. Make sure it includes the lines to unprotect and reprotect the form. The two lines that mention System.PrivateProfileString should contain "C:\SerRepCon Sequence.txt" as the name of the file to contain the current sequence number. Close the VBA editor. Turn on form protection (click the lock icon on the Forms toolbar), save the template, and close it. Open the File New dialog (_not_ File Open -- now you're going to create a document based on the template). Select the SerRepCon template and click OK. You should see a document named "path00001.doc" that is a protected form with the sequence number 00001 at the place marked by the Order bookmark. Each time you go to File New and select the SerRepCon template as the basis for a new document, you should get another document and the sequence number should be greater by 1 than the one before. Now repeat all the previous steps for the template of another kind of form; the only difference should be that the lines that mention System.PrivateProfileString should contain the name of a different text file -- one related to that particular template. By the way, I don't think you really want the word "path" as part of the document's filename. The reason it's there now is that the original article on word.mvps.org shows it there -- but it was meant to represent the folder location (that is, the path from C:\ to the folder where you want the document to be stored), not the literal word "path". If you just want to store all the documents in the My Documents folder, you could change the Save statement to something like ActiveDocument.SaveAs FileName:="SerRepCon" & Format(Order, "0000#") so the actual name of a document based on this template would be something like SerRepCon00001.doc. Because the filename doesn't contain any information about the folder, Word automatically uses whatever folder you have set as the Documents location in the Tools Options File Locations dialog -- and by default that's the My Documents folder. -- 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. snulton wrote: I hope that I didn't upset you with my insessent questions, but I am going to repost this: I am probably beginning to sound really stupid. So let me see if I have it from the beginning. First I open a template (.dot) which automatically creates a document (.doc) that has a name "Document* (* = the number of the document opened and saved) then in that document I go to File New which opens a task pane that I then click on the Link for "On my Computer", I then receive a new Template (.dot) named "path0*****.dot, I then set my bookmark where I want the sequential numbers and then Go to Tools Macro Macros and am given a choice in the window that opens a blank space for Macro name, a bigger area that has AutoExec.MAIN, AutoExit.MAIN, and RunFineReader, with active buttons "Create", "Organizer", and "Close". Logic tells me that I would then "Create" AutoNew. This then opens Microsoft Visual Basic which has a panel that has a choice of "FineReader6SprintTools", "Normal", "Project (Document 1)" (with no modules), "TemplateProject (Live Meeting Toolbar Customizations)" and finally "TemplateProject (SerRepCon)" [the name of the original template], both the "Project (Document 1)" and the "TemplateProject (SerRepCon)" have "ThisDocument" when opening "Microsoft Word Objects". Which one do I use? The code window that opens caries the header of whichever main catagory is highlighted. This is the window that I put the AutoNew language. After this is done I would then click on the Save icon on the toolbar in Microsoft Visual Basic and shut window. then I would go to File SaveAs and name the document the same as the name used in the Macro before "sequence". Is this correct? Inf not Please correct within the messege. "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 Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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