Disable Automatically Update?

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I need to disable the Automatically Update feature of Insert/Date and Time so users can’t insert date codes with this method. Any ideas? The only thing I can come up with is running a macro afterwards to find the field and perform Ctrl/Shift/F9 to convert the field to text. Thanks.

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Searcher,

Can you use an Autonew macro to insert today’s date in a document at a location?

I work with a lot of forms, which are protected. For those, I have a form fields which does not allow fill-in. My Autonew unprotects the document, updates the field, and protects again. But you could also insert a value in a bookmarked location.

Would that do what you are wanting to do?

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Have a look at this macro and work out if this is what you want. It is not disabling the ability to tick the box but it is over-riding it with a message if it is ticked. If you use this macro name it will hijack the menu item.

Sub InsertDateTime()
With Dialogs(wdDialogInsertDateTime)
  If .Display = -1 Then
    If .InsertAsField Then
      MsgBox "Bad Luck, you're getting a non-updating entry"
      .InsertAsField = False
    End If
    .Execute
  End If
End With
End Sub

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The code is great. Thanks. The confusion for users might be that it seems to leave the box ticked, even after deselecting it and going back in. Ideally, I would like to display the checkbox as unticked when users go back in. Any other ideas? This was very helpful.

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I think I answered my own question. I added another .InsertAsField = False outside the If statement:

Sub InsertDateTime()
‘Disable Automatically Update in Insert/Date & Time
With Dialogs(wdDialogInsertDateTime)
.InsertAsField = False
If .Display = -1 Then
If .InsertAsField Then
MsgBox “Automatically Update is disabled.”
.InsertAsField = False
End If
.Execute
End If
End With
End Sub

This is my first time posting a question, and I’m very impressed by the response time and the quality of the responses. What a great resource! Thanks again.

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