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Styleref field error when opened in Germany
We have a repositry of QMS templates that are used in our company across the
US. We now have group members in Germany and several other countries. The templates are automated with styleref fields to populate headers and footers. When our teammates in Germany try to use the templates, they get error messages in the header/footers for the date field only....seems the word for "date" there is datum, and Word is converting that code only, and leaving the remaining fields codes (document name, org, etc) alone. Is there a way to tell Word that "date" and "datum" are equivalent, so the error codes cease? (We cannot have duplicate templates, so that option cannot be considered.) |
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Styleref field error when opened in Germany
Hi ?B?U2FsbHkgU2lidGhvcnBl?=,
Which version of Word is used? Are the German affiliates using an English or German version of Word? And of Windows? Is this the { DATE } field (just double-checking) - always reflects the current date on which the document is opened? We have a repositry of QMS templates that are used in our company across the US. We now have group members in Germany and several other countries. The templates are automated with styleref fields to populate headers and footers. When our teammates in Germany try to use the templates, they get error messages in the header/footers for the date field only....seems the word for "date" there is datum, and Word is converting that code only, and leaving the remaining fields codes (document name, org, etc) alone. Is there a way to tell Word that "date" and "datum" are equivalent, so the error codes cease? (We cannot have duplicate templates, so that option cannot be considered.) Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Styleref field error when opened in Germany
We use Word 2003. I am assuming that our affiliates use the German version of
the software, as most of them do not speak English. The field I am referring to is a styleref field. It picks up the date that is manually entered in the date field that WE define...not a built-in Word date field. "Sally Sibthorpe" wrote: We have a repositry of QMS templates that are used in our company across the US. We now have group members in Germany and several other countries. The templates are automated with styleref fields to populate headers and footers. When our teammates in Germany try to use the templates, they get error messages in the header/footers for the date field only....seems the word for "date" there is datum, and Word is converting that code only, and leaving the remaining fields codes (document name, org, etc) alone. Is there a way to tell Word that "date" and "datum" are equivalent, so the error codes cease? (We cannot have duplicate templates, so that option cannot be considered.) |
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Styleref field error when opened in Germany
Hi ?B?U2FsbHkgU2lidGhvcnBl?=,
We use Word 2003. I am assuming that our affiliates use the German version of the software, as most of them do not speak English. For this question, I think it important that you check on this. The field I am referring to is a styleref field. It picks up the date that is manually entered in the date field that WE define...not a built-in Word date field. Your problem description is unclear. You talk about styleref fields on the one hand, and datefields on the other. Please give us more details, including an example of exactly what you have in your original files, what's appearing in the German locations, and where the error message is showing up. For example: what's the style name that's being referenced in the StyleRef field? What's the field code of the StyleRef field? Is Word 2003 *changing* the field code? To what text is the style in question applied? What's the content of this "date field YOU define"? What kind of field is this? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Styleref field error when opened in Germany
As I said in one of the threads, I am referencing a self-defined field called
Date in the style ref. I fixed my problem by renaming my self defined field to another name that does not confilct with Word's built in date field. "Cindy M." wrote: Hi ?B?U2FsbHkgU2lidGhvcnBl?=, We use Word 2003. I am assuming that our affiliates use the German version of the software, as most of them do not speak English. For this question, I think it important that you check on this. The field I am referring to is a styleref field. It picks up the date that is manually entered in the date field that WE define...not a built-in Word date field. Your problem description is unclear. You talk about styleref fields on the one hand, and datefields on the other. Please give us more details, including an example of exactly what you have in your original files, what's appearing in the German locations, and where the error message is showing up. For example: what's the style name that's being referenced in the StyleRef field? What's the field code of the StyleRef field? Is Word 2003 *changing* the field code? To what text is the style in question applied? What's the content of this "date field YOU define"? What kind of field is this? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Styleref field error when opened in Germany
I suspect you were using the { STYLEREF Date } field in the English
language version, to reference text formatted in the Date built-in paragraph style. This certainly causes trouble in non-English versions of Word. The problem isn't with the Date field, though. Instead, the problem is that all built-in styles have different names in different language versions of Word. For heading styles, you can use numbers, for example, { STYLEREF 1 } to reference Heading 1 text, but for other paragraphs you must either create aliases or use custom styles, if you want STYLEREF fields to work with different language versions of Word. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Sally Sibthorpe" wrote in message ... As I said in one of the threads, I am referencing a self-defined field called Date in the style ref. I fixed my problem by renaming my self defined field to another name that does not confilct with Word's built in date field. "Cindy M." wrote: Hi ?B?U2FsbHkgU2lidGhvcnBl?=, We use Word 2003. I am assuming that our affiliates use the German version of the software, as most of them do not speak English. For this question, I think it important that you check on this. The field I am referring to is a styleref field. It picks up the date that is manually entered in the date field that WE define...not a built-in Word date field. Your problem description is unclear. You talk about styleref fields on the one hand, and datefields on the other. Please give us more details, including an example of exactly what you have in your original files, what's appearing in the German locations, and where the error message is showing up. For example: what's the style name that's being referenced in the StyleRef field? What's the field code of the StyleRef field? Is Word 2003 *changing* the field code? To what text is the style in question applied? What's the content of this "date field YOU define"? What kind of field is this? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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