Automatically changing the window caption when a document opens

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Jack - 31 Mar 2004 00:53 GMT

I save files with names that are no helpful to the user so I want to make
the window caption different to the file name. That's no problem if they
open the document using my program because I can then update the
activewindows caption. My problem is if they open the document from windows
explorer. Is there a way I could write a auto open macro with VBA into the
document as part of my save routine to set the window caption to one the
title in the built in properties?

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 31 Mar 2004 10:33 GMT

If you have a macro named autoopen in the template from which the documents
were created (and that template is available to Word on the users' machines,
then that macro will fire when a document is opened by double clicking on it
in Windows Explorer.

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>I save files with names that are no helpful to the user so I want to make
> the window caption different to the file name. That's no problem if they
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> document as part of my save routine to set the window caption to one the
> title in the built in properties?

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