[pubscout]

I'm completely new to Word 2007. While trying to figure out how to have all
my business cards absorb the same changes I made to one, i went to Graham
Major's site and downloaded what i thought was the right macro.
I created the macro, but now I can't get things that I used to be able to
do. For example, I created a template wherein I inserted the date update with
each new letter. It worked fine, until I installed this macro. Now, where the
date is supposed to show up on the template, I get a strange configuration of
characters that says:

{DATE\@"M/d/yyyy"}

No date shows up on the letter. How do I get my old system back? I've
deleted what I though was the macro that caused the problem, but the above
keeps showing up whenever I go to insert a date.

Help Please!

[Lene Fredborg]

You only need to toggle field codes. To do this, press Alt+F9.

The date is a field and fields can be in two modes: they can show the
result, i.e. the content that will print, or they can show the code behind.
Alt+F9 toggles field codes on and off.

--
Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word


"pubscout" wrote:

I'm completely new to Word 2007. While trying to figure out how to have all
my business cards absorb the same changes I made to one, i went to Graham
Major's site and downloaded what i thought was the right macro.
I created the macro, but now I can't get things that I used to be able to
do. For example, I created a template wherein I inserted the date update with
each new letter. It worked fine, until I installed this macro. Now, where the
date is supposed to show up on the template, I get a strange configuration of
characters that says:

{DATE\@"M/d/yyyy"}

No date shows up on the letter. How do I get my old system back? I've
deleted what I though was the macro that caused the problem, but the above
keeps showing up whenever I go to insert a date.

Help Please!

[pubscout]

Thanks, Lene! That fixed it! Now once I toggle the field codes, will they
stay that way? Or must I toggle for every new document?

And what caused them to "toggle" without my input?

Once again, my thanks for your help.

"Lene Fredborg" wrote:

You only need to toggle field codes. To do this, press Alt+F9.

The date is a field and fields can be in two modes: they can show the
result, i.e. the content that will print, or they can show the code behind.
Alt+F9 toggles field codes on and off.

--
Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word


"pubscout" wrote:

I'm completely new to Word 2007. While trying to figure out how to have all
my business cards absorb the same changes I made to one, i went to Graham
Major's site and downloaded what i thought was the right macro.
I created the macro, but now I can't get things that I used to be able to
do. For example, I created a template wherein I inserted the date update with
each new letter. It worked fine, until I installed this macro. Now, where the
date is supposed to show up on the template, I get a strange configuration of
characters that says:

{DATE\@"M/d/yyyy"}

No date shows up on the letter. How do I get my old system back? I've
deleted what I though was the macro that caused the problem, but the above
keeps showing up whenever I go to insert a date.

Help Please!

[Graham Mayor]

It should hold until you toggle it back again. The ability to display the
construction or content of a field is an essential tool.
The macro you downloaded from http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm
toggles the display to show the content. I will modify it this morning to
reset the view to what it was when you ran the macro. I'll post back when
the revised code is in place.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


pubscout wrote:
Thanks, Lene! That fixed it! Now once I toggle the field codes, will
they stay that way? Or must I toggle for every new document?

And what caused them to "toggle" without my input?

Once again, my thanks for your help.

"Lene Fredborg" wrote:

You only need to toggle field codes. To do this, press Alt+F9.

The date is a field and fields can be in two modes: they can show the
result, i.e. the content that will print, or they can show the code
behind. Alt+F9 toggles field codes on and off.

--
Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft
Word


"pubscout" wrote:

I'm completely new to Word 2007. While trying to figure out how to
have all my business cards absorb the same changes I made to one, i
went to Graham Major's site and downloaded what i thought was the
right macro.
I created the macro, but now I can't get things that I used to be
able to do. For example, I created a template wherein I inserted
the date update with each new letter. It worked fine, until I
installed this macro. Now, where the date is supposed to show up on
the template, I get a strange configuration of characters that says:

{DATE\@"M/d/yyyy"}

No date shows up on the letter. How do I get my old system back?
I've deleted what I though was the macro that caused the problem,
but the above keeps showing up whenever I go to insert a date.

Help Please!

[Graham Mayor]

That didn't take long - job done
http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm#macro

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Graham Mayor wrote:
It should hold until you toggle it back again. The ability to display
the construction or content of a field is an essential tool.
The macro you downloaded from
http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm toggles the display to
show the content. I will modify it this morning to reset the view to
what it was when you ran the macro. I'll post back when the revised
code is in place.

pubscout wrote:
Thanks, Lene! That fixed it! Now once I toggle the field codes, will
they stay that way? Or must I toggle for every new document?

And what caused them to "toggle" without my input?

Once again, my thanks for your help.

"Lene Fredborg" wrote:

You only need to toggle field codes. To do this, press Alt+F9.

The date is a field and fields can be in two modes: they can show
the result, i.e. the content that will print, or they can show the
code behind. Alt+F9 toggles field codes on and off.

--
Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft
Word


"pubscout" wrote:

I'm completely new to Word 2007. While trying to figure out how to
have all my business cards absorb the same changes I made to one, i
went to Graham Major's site and downloaded what i thought was the
right macro.
I created the macro, but now I can't get things that I used to be
able to do. For example, I created a template wherein I inserted
the date update with each new letter. It worked fine, until I
installed this macro. Now, where the date is supposed to show up on
the template, I get a strange configuration of characters that
says: {DATE\@"M/d/yyyy"}

No date shows up on the letter. How do I get my old system back?
I've deleted what I though was the macro that caused the problem,
but the above keeps showing up whenever I go to insert a date.

Help Please!

[pubscout]

Thanks, Graham, although the toggle held without it. But I'm having a devil
of a time understanding this whole macro world. Sometimes I see what looks
like a little cassette player attached to my cursor, sometimes i don't. I
can't seem to get the process of launching a macro, let alone utilizing it
once it's launched. Is there some sort of "Macros for Dummies" site I can
access?

Microsoft Help doesn't seem to cut it.

I tried to create a business card and launch your macro to apply the changes
I made to one to all of them. No go.

I appreciate your assistance so far, too.

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

That didn't take long - job done
http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm#macro

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Graham Mayor wrote:
It should hold until you toggle it back again. The ability to display
the construction or content of a field is an essential tool.
The macro you downloaded from
http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm toggles the display to
show the content. I will modify it this morning to reset the view to
what it was when you ran the macro. I'll post back when the revised
code is in place.

pubscout wrote:
Thanks, Lene! That fixed it! Now once I toggle the field codes, will
they stay that way? Or must I toggle for every new document?

And what caused them to "toggle" without my input?

Once again, my thanks for your help.

"Lene Fredborg" wrote:

You only need to toggle field codes. To do this, press Alt+F9.

The date is a field and fields can be in two modes: they can show
the result, i.e. the content that will print, or they can show the
code behind. Alt+F9 toggles field codes on and off.

--
Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft
Word


"pubscout" wrote:

I'm completely new to Word 2007. While trying to figure out how to
have all my business cards absorb the same changes I made to one, i
went to Graham Major's site and downloaded what i thought was the
right macro.
I created the macro, but now I can't get things that I used to be
able to do. For example, I created a template wherein I inserted
the date update with each new letter. It worked fine, until I
installed this macro. Now, where the date is supposed to show up on
the template, I get a strange configuration of characters that
says: {DATE\@"M/d/yyyy"}

No date shows up on the letter. How do I get my old system back?
I've deleted what I though was the macro that caused the problem,
but the above keeps showing up whenever I go to insert a date.

Help Please!

[Graham Mayor]

My expertise with Word 2007 is relatively slim, but for access to macros you
need first to add the Developer tab to the Ribbon. Presumably you have got
that far as you appear to have installed the macro. But see
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm . The dialogs are for Word 2003,
but the essentials are identical for Word 2007

The macro is intended to work on the table produced by the labels tool on
the Mailings tab. Create your content in the first label, then run the macro
from Developer Macros .

I have tested and it works fine in Word 2007 though it runs much faster in
Word 2003 .

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



pubscout wrote:
Thanks, Graham, although the toggle held without it. But I'm having a
devil of a time understanding this whole macro world. Sometimes I see
what looks like a little cassette player attached to my cursor,
sometimes i don't. I can't seem to get the process of launching a
macro, let alone utilizing it once it's launched. Is there some sort
of "Macros for Dummies" site I can access?

Microsoft Help doesn't seem to cut it.

I tried to create a business card and launch your macro to apply the
changes I made to one to all of them. No go.

I appreciate your assistance so far, too.

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

That didn't take long - job done
http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm#macro

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Graham Mayor wrote:
It should hold until you toggle it back again. The ability to
display the construction or content of a field is an essential tool.
The macro you downloaded from
http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm toggles the display to
show the content. I will modify it this morning to reset the view to
what it was when you ran the macro. I'll post back when the revised
code is in place.

pubscout wrote:
Thanks, Lene! That fixed it! Now once I toggle the field codes,
will they stay that way? Or must I toggle for every new document?

And what caused them to "toggle" without my input?

Once again, my thanks for your help.

"Lene Fredborg" wrote:

You only need to toggle field codes. To do this, press Alt+F9.

The date is a field and fields can be in two modes: they can show
the result, i.e. the content that will print, or they can show the
code behind. Alt+F9 toggles field codes on and off.

--
Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft
Word


"pubscout" wrote:

I'm completely new to Word 2007. While trying to figure out how
to have all my business cards absorb the same changes I made to
one, i went to Graham Major's site and downloaded what i thought
was the right macro.
I created the macro, but now I can't get things that I used to be
able to do. For example, I created a template wherein I inserted
the date update with each new letter. It worked fine, until I
installed this macro. Now, where the date is supposed to show up
on the template, I get a strange configuration of characters that
says: {DATE\@"M/d/yyyy"}

No date shows up on the letter. How do I get my old system back?
I've deleted what I though was the macro that caused the problem,
but the above keeps showing up whenever I go to insert a date.

Help Please!

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The "cassette player" indicates that you are recording a macro (see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/UsingRecorder.htm); that should not be
necessary when you have been provided a macro and just need to install it
(following Graham's instructions at
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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all may benefit.

"pubscout" wrote in message
...
Thanks, Graham, although the toggle held without it. But I'm having a
devil
of a time understanding this whole macro world. Sometimes I see what looks
like a little cassette player attached to my cursor, sometimes i don't. I
can't seem to get the process of launching a macro, let alone utilizing it
once it's launched. Is there some sort of "Macros for Dummies" site I can
access?

Microsoft Help doesn't seem to cut it.

I tried to create a business card and launch your macro to apply the
changes
I made to one to all of them. No go.

I appreciate your assistance so far, too.

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

That didn't take long - job done
http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm#macro

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Graham Mayor wrote:
It should hold until you toggle it back again. The ability to display
the construction or content of a field is an essential tool.
The macro you downloaded from
http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm toggles the display to
show the content. I will modify it this morning to reset the view to
what it was when you ran the macro. I'll post back when the revised
code is in place.

pubscout wrote:
Thanks, Lene! That fixed it! Now once I toggle the field codes, will
they stay that way? Or must I toggle for every new document?

And what caused them to "toggle" without my input?

Once again, my thanks for your help.

"Lene Fredborg" wrote:

You only need to toggle field codes. To do this, press Alt+F9.

The date is a field and fields can be in two modes: they can show
the result, i.e. the content that will print, or they can show the
code behind. Alt+F9 toggles field codes on and off.

--
Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft
Word


"pubscout" wrote:

I'm completely new to Word 2007. While trying to figure out how to
have all my business cards absorb the same changes I made to one, i
went to Graham Major's site and downloaded what i thought was the
right macro.
I created the macro, but now I can't get things that I used to be
able to do. For example, I created a template wherein I inserted
the date update with each new letter. It worked fine, until I
installed this macro. Now, where the date is supposed to show up on
the template, I get a strange configuration of characters that
says: {DATE\@"M/d/yyyy"}

No date shows up on the letter. How do I get my old system back?
I've deleted what I though was the macro that caused the problem,
but the above keeps showing up whenever I go to insert a date.

Help Please!