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MS Office Forum / Word / Programming / October 2006autotext in headerfooter – VBA
Using: Word 2000 This is my first post, but I've been reading your pages all year and find them enormously useful. I am a beginning VBA programmer. I am creating a suite of automated templates for my company. I have a macro that deletes all content within all headers and footers in the active document. Now I want to create a macro that inserts autotext into all headers and footers. The autotext is a series of docvariable fields stored in a global template. I don't know where to begin. Could you please help? best wishes from Western Canada, sugarboyrosnerd I would recommend that you do not use VBA to set up the headers and footers in documents created from templates. It is much easier to just create the template with the headers and footers already in them.  SignatureHope 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 > Using: Word 2000 > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > best wishes from Western Canada, > sugarboyrosnerd I agree Doug. In fact, my templates already contain the required header and footer fields, as you recommended in your last post. Perhaps I should explain why I want to create a macro that will insert autotext in headers and footers. I'm concerned that users will delete existing header/footer docvariable fields, which will generate an error whenever the user tries to update the docvariable fields. My logic is this – by deleting all header and footer content and then replacing all header and footer content with autotext (that contains docvariable fields), I'll have a quick and automatic way to correct all headers and footers – no matter how badly the user messes up the header/footer content. Does this make sense to you? Thank you for your time and advice. best wishes from Western Canada, sugarboyrosnerd > I would recommend that you do not use VBA to set up the headers and footers > in documents created from templates. It is much easier to just create the [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > best wishes from Western Canada, > > sugarboyrosnerd While the deletion of Docvariable field will result in the desired result not being achieved, it should not cause any error message to appear. Maybe more appropriate for you to see the article "How can I prevent users from editing the header of a document in Word 2000 or higher?" at: http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/ProtectWord2000PlusHeader.htm or, "How can I prevent users from editing the header of a Word 97 document?" at: http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/ProtectWord97Header.htm SignatureHope 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 >I agree Doug. In fact, my templates already contain the required header and > footer fields, as you recommended in your last post. [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] >> > best wishes from Western Canada, >> > sugarboyrosnerd Absolutely spectacular Doug! I didn't think this was even possible. This works and is a far better solution than the one I proposed. Thank you, thank you, thank you. best wishes from Western Canada, sugarboyrosnerd > While the deletion of Docvariable field will result in the desired result > not being achieved, it should not cause any error message to appear. [quoted text clipped - 49 lines] > >> > best wishes from Western Canada, > >> > sugarboyrosnerd Sugarboyrosnerd, > Using: Word 2000 > > This is my first post, but I've been reading your pages all year and find > them enormously useful. I am a beginning VBA programmer. Microsoft.public.word.vba.beginners > I am creating a suite of automated templates for my company. I have a macro > that deletes all content within all headers and footers in the active [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > footers. The autotext is a series of docvariable fields stored in a global > template. I don't know where to begin. Could you please help? Have you tried recording a macro while manually going through the operations required? Then look at the code produced. That's where you can begin. Afterwards, if you have more specific questions, you can ask in another message thread. > best wishes from Western Canada, > sugarboyrosnerd SignatureRuss drsmN0SPAMikleAThotmailD0Tcom.INVALID |
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