The following may help:
Private Sub FieldsUpdateAllStory()
'   All Story Field Updater
'   Written by Charles Kyle Kenyon 9 December 2004
'   repaired with help from Jezebel 10 December 2004
'   Note, if used in protected form this will reset
'       formfields to their defaults
   Dim oStory As Range
   On Error Resume Next
   For Each oStory In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges
       Do
           oStory.Fields.Update
           Set oStory = oStory.Next
       Loop Until oStory Is Nothing
   Next
End Sub

This can be modified to only update a particular type of field as in:

Private Sub RefFieldUpdateAllStory()
'   Written by Charles Kyle Kenyon 15 November 2001
'   repaired by Jezebel
'   All Story Field Updater - Ref fields
   Dim oField As Field
   Dim oStory As Range
'    On Error Resume Next
   For Each oStory In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges
   ' This goes into headers and footers as well as the regular document
       Do
           For Each oField In oStory.Fields
               If oField.Type = wdFieldRef Then
                   oField.Update
               End If
           Next oField
           Set oStory = oStory.Next
       Loop Until oStory Is Nothing
   Next oStory
End Sub

Thanks to Jezebel & Cindy for your responses.  Frames won't cut it, since my
text boxes are on top of other graphics.  Guess I'll take my first shot at
creating a macro.

- John