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Hello. I did something in Word 2007 which worked perfectly, but now need to
redo this task in 2003 for compatibility with another person. I have a report with a Title on the first page, and headers throughout the rest. In 2007, I inserted a Quick Part (Document Property -- Title) to define the text on page 1 as my Title. Then I simply inserted this Quick Part into my header on page 2, which thus showed the title on every page, and most importantly, when I changed the Title on page 1, the rest updated AUTOMATICALLY. So my question is quite simple - how do I do this in Word 2003 without VBA and without creating a new Template file? As you know, Word 2003 does not have Quick Parts. I read forums on Bookmarks, but it did not work for me. Thank you for any help you can provide. |
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Open a COPY of your template, then SaveAs and choose Word 97-2003 template
*.dot. It will work as long as you saved the quick part building blocks with the template rather than with normal.dot. Otherwise you can use the Organizer to copy the missing bits across. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "bassadi" wrote in message ... Hello. I did something in Word 2007 which worked perfectly, but now need to redo this task in 2003 for compatibility with another person. I have a report with a Title on the first page, and headers throughout the rest. In 2007, I inserted a Quick Part (Document Property -- Title) to define the text on page 1 as my Title. Then I simply inserted this Quick Part into my header on page 2, which thus showed the title on every page, and most importantly, when I changed the Title on page 1, the rest updated AUTOMATICALLY. So my question is quite simple - how do I do this in Word 2003 without VBA and without creating a new Template file? As you know, Word 2003 does not have Quick Parts. I read forums on Bookmarks, but it did not work for me. Thank you for any help you can provide. |
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Hi Terry,
I tried what you said but it didn't seem to work. I'm not actually fully understanding your suggestion. Can you be a bit more specific on which actions to take? What exactly am I supposed to do with the building blocks? What is "normal.dot?" How do I "use the Organizer to copy the missing bits across?" I made a copy of the file, saved-as Word 97-2003 template, and it prompted me that links will be converted to static - which means the autolink function did not carry over. So I'm still stuck..... "Terry Farrell" wrote: Open a COPY of your template, then SaveAs and choose Word 97-2003 template *.dot. It will work as long as you saved the quick part building blocks with the template rather than with normal.dot. Otherwise you can use the Organizer to copy the missing bits across. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "bassadi" wrote in message ... Hello. I did something in Word 2007 which worked perfectly, but now need to redo this task in 2003 for compatibility with another person. I have a report with a Title on the first page, and headers throughout the rest. In 2007, I inserted a Quick Part (Document Property -- Title) to define the text on page 1 as my Title. Then I simply inserted this Quick Part into my header on page 2, which thus showed the title on every page, and most importantly, when I changed the Title on page 1, the rest updated AUTOMATICALLY. So my question is quite simple - how do I do this in Word 2003 without VBA and without creating a new Template file? As you know, Word 2003 does not have Quick Parts. I read forums on Bookmarks, but it did not work for me. Thank you for any help you can provide. |
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This issue is still outstanding for me. I would appreciate some further
guidance if anyone has some. Thank you. "bassadi" wrote: Hi Terry, I tried what you said but it didn't seem to work. I'm not actually fully understanding your suggestion. Can you be a bit more specific on which actions to take? What exactly am I supposed to do with the building blocks? What is "normal.dot?" How do I "use the Organizer to copy the missing bits across?" I made a copy of the file, saved-as Word 97-2003 template, and it prompted me that links will be converted to static - which means the autolink function did not carry over. So I'm still stuck..... "Terry Farrell" wrote: Open a COPY of your template, then SaveAs and choose Word 97-2003 template *.dot. It will work as long as you saved the quick part building blocks with the template rather than with normal.dot. Otherwise you can use the Organizer to copy the missing bits across. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "bassadi" wrote in message ... Hello. I did something in Word 2007 which worked perfectly, but now need to redo this task in 2003 for compatibility with another person. I have a report with a Title on the first page, and headers throughout the rest. In 2007, I inserted a Quick Part (Document Property -- Title) to define the text on page 1 as my Title. Then I simply inserted this Quick Part into my header on page 2, which thus showed the title on every page, and most importantly, when I changed the Title on page 1, the rest updated AUTOMATICALLY. So my question is quite simple - how do I do this in Word 2003 without VBA and without creating a new Template file? As you know, Word 2003 does not have Quick Parts. I read forums on Bookmarks, but it did not work for me. Thank you for any help you can provide. |
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You can either select the "title" on the first page and then from the Insert
menu assign a bookmark to it and then in the header insert a cross reference to the text of the bookmark. That is a bit risking however as if you are updating the "title" on the first page, it is very easy to delete the bookmark. A better option would be to insert a Title field in both cases and set the title in the Document Properties dialog. Then if you want to update the title, do it in that dialog. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "bassadi" wrote in message ... This issue is still outstanding for me. I would appreciate some further guidance if anyone has some. Thank you. "bassadi" wrote: Hi Terry, I tried what you said but it didn't seem to work. I'm not actually fully understanding your suggestion. Can you be a bit more specific on which actions to take? What exactly am I supposed to do with the building blocks? What is "normal.dot?" How do I "use the Organizer to copy the missing bits across?" I made a copy of the file, saved-as Word 97-2003 template, and it prompted me that links will be converted to static - which means the autolink function did not carry over. So I'm still stuck..... "Terry Farrell" wrote: Open a COPY of your template, then SaveAs and choose Word 97-2003 template *.dot. It will work as long as you saved the quick part building blocks with the template rather than with normal.dot. Otherwise you can use the Organizer to copy the missing bits across. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "bassadi" wrote in message ... Hello. I did something in Word 2007 which worked perfectly, but now need to redo this task in 2003 for compatibility with another person. I have a report with a Title on the first page, and headers throughout the rest. In 2007, I inserted a Quick Part (Document Property -- Title) to define the text on page 1 as my Title. Then I simply inserted this Quick Part into my header on page 2, which thus showed the title on every page, and most importantly, when I changed the Title on page 1, the rest updated AUTOMATICALLY. So my question is quite simple - how do I do this in Word 2003 without VBA and without creating a new Template file? As you know, Word 2003 does not have Quick Parts. I read forums on Bookmarks, but it did not work for me. Thank you for any help you can provide. |
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