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MS Office Forum / Word / Programming / March 2005Unique identifier (uid)
Is MS Word able to generate unique identifiers (uid) like the AutoNumber in Access? Emily was telling us: Emily nous racontait que : > Is MS Word able to generate unique identifiers (uid) like the > AutoNumber in Access? Strictly speaking, no. What do you want to do? There are ways of doing something like that, but it depends on how the document will be used and how/when the number has to be generated.  SignatureSalut! _______________________________________ Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP jmarcilREMOVE@CAPSsympatico.caTHISTOO Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org Thanks for your reply. I'm writing a requirements spec and I would like to identify uniquely the sentences with a unique number. The number shall be incremented each time it is inserted. Is MS Word has this feature build in or is it possible to write a macro for that ? Thanks, Emily > Emily was telling us: > Emily nous racontait que : [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > depends on how the document will be used and how/when the number has to be > generated. Emily was telling us: Emily nous racontait que : > Thanks for your reply. > I'm writing a requirements spec and I would like to identify uniquely > the sentences with a unique number. The number shall be incremented > each time it is inserted. Is MS Word has this feature build in or is > it possible to write a macro for that ? Can't you use paragraph numbering (or LISTNUM fields) for that? SignatureSalut! _______________________________________ Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP jmarcilREMOVE@CAPSsympatico.caTHISTOO Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org The LISTNUM and the SEQ fields seems to not be unique. It is possible to delete one sentence with its number and then insert a new one with the same number. > Emily was telling us: > Emily nous racontait que : [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Can't you use paragraph numbering (or LISTNUM fields) for that? Emily was telling us: Emily nous racontait que : > The LISTNUM and the SEQ fields seems to not be unique. > It is possible to delete one sentence with its number and then insert > a new one with the same number. In that case, unless you have very heavy event checking code that runs all the time, and that will fairly complicated to write so that you catch all possible scenarios, I think you really have to use Access or some other database system to store the sentences. I did something similar for a client. An access programmer created the database, we inserted the sentences in Word with DATABASE fields and used styles to format the resulting document. But it is a lot of work. Still, someone could be along with an alternative... I may be too deep in the forest to see the trees... SignatureSalut! _______________________________________ Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP jmarcilREMOVE@CAPSsympatico.caTHISTOO Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org |
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