[Wombler]

I want to automatically generate the filename to save as from data at the top
of a document.

[Jay Freedman]

Is the "data at the top of a document" in a form field, a bookmark, a
table cell, or something else that's clearly identifiable? Or is it
just some plain text?

Once you know where to look, you can create macros in the template on
which these documents are based. Catching all the possible ways for an
unsaved document to be saved (and thus named) is a bit difficult. See
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...tSavePrint.htm.

In each macro, you get the data from the document, modify it if
necessary, and put it into the document's Title property -- see
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...efFilename.htm. Finally,
you call

Dialogs(wdDialogFileSaveAs).Show

to display the SaveAs dialog, which will have your automatically
generated file name in the File Name box.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
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On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 10:16:01 -0800, Wombler
wrote:

I want to automatically generate the filename to save as from data at the top
of a document.