[Dawk]

I'm new to Word 2007 (used WordPerfect for many years). I want to insert the
file name in many of my document forms and I find the instructions to do this
are quite convoluted. In WordPerfect I had a simple icon in the tool bar.
All I had to do was click it and the file name would appear.

Is there an easier way to insert the file name my documents? Can I put an
icon on the Quick Access Tool Bar?

Dawk

[Jay Freedman]

On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:59:01 -0800, Dawk wrote:

I'm new to Word 2007 (used WordPerfect for many years). I want to insert the
file name in many of my document forms and I find the instructions to do this
are quite convoluted. In WordPerfect I had a simple icon in the tool bar.
All I had to do was click it and the file name would appear.

Is there an easier way to insert the file name my documents? Can I put an
icon on the Quick Access Tool Bar?

Dawk

Set up a building block for it:

Click Office button New. In the New Document dialog, click in the search box
at the top center, type in filename and press Enter. The search results from
Office Online should show one template, named "Building Blocks for inserting
File Name and Path in the Header or Footer". Click the "I Accept" button on the
right, and then the Download button. When a document based on the template
appears, follow the instructions. This is a one-time job; after that the file
name building block will be in the Header and Footer galleries.

It's also possible to create a field "on the fly": At the point where you want
the file name, press Ctrl+F9 to insert a pair of field braces, and type between
them the word "filename" (without quotes). If you also want the full path, make
it "filename \p". Then press F9 (or right-click and choose Update Fields).

When you say you have "document forms", do you mean you're making templates? If
so, put the filename field in the template, and every document based on that
template will inherit the field.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
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[Dawk]

Thanks Jay. I will give it a try. The "forms" I do are for my chiropractic
office. Things like exam forms etc. Months or years sometimes pass before I
need to revamp them. If I don't put the file name on them it may take hours
to find them again.

Sometimes I do template forms so I would expect that when I change the file
name, the footer would also change.

Thanks again.

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:59:01 -0800, Dawk wrote:

I'm new to Word 2007 (used WordPerfect for many years). I want to insert the
file name in many of my document forms and I find the instructions to do this
are quite convoluted. In WordPerfect I had a simple icon in the tool bar.
All I had to do was click it and the file name would appear.

Is there an easier way to insert the file name my documents? Can I put an
icon on the Quick Access Tool Bar?

Dawk

Set up a building block for it:

Click Office button New. In the New Document dialog, click in the search box
at the top center, type in filename and press Enter. The search results from
Office Online should show one template, named "Building Blocks for inserting
File Name and Path in the Header or Footer". Click the "I Accept" button on the
right, and then the Download button. When a document based on the template
appears, follow the instructions. This is a one-time job; after that the file
name building block will be in the Header and Footer galleries.

It's also possible to create a field "on the fly": At the point where you want
the file name, press Ctrl+F9 to insert a pair of field braces, and type between
them the word "filename" (without quotes). If you also want the full path, make
it "filename \p". Then press F9 (or right-click and choose Update Fields).

When you say you have "document forms", do you mean you're making templates? If
so, put the filename field in the template, and every document based on that
template will inherit the field.

--
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.