macro to update ALL fields (word 2000)

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Hi All,

I have Question about updating word fields.
I was browsing through the earlier postings to find a solution for updating of my field in word doc template
and found a posting form HANSV about updating REF fields in a footer

post 355606 21 march 2004

The answer was little macro to update the footer.
Basically I am looking for something similar, but Then a macro that updates ALL the fields in the form

I have a form template that is protected and that has REFfields in Textboxes and in the footer.
the only way now to update them is through printpreview.
i am looking for the command in VBA to update ALL the fields in the doc like printpreview does
so that I can create a little macro to do this.

Thanks in advance,

greetings,

Diederik

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This macro is from Microsoft:

Sub UpdateAllFields()
Dim aStory As Range
Dim aField As Field
For Each aStory In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges
For Each aField In aStory.Fields
aField.Update
Next aField
Next aStory
End Sub

See WD2000: How to Update Fields in a Protected Form.

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Hi hans,

Great!

Thx for the quick reply.

Greetings,

Diederik

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If you want a macro that will update fields that are in text boxes also, see post 294288 by Bryon Carbonnell.
Cheers,

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If you want a macro that will update fields that are in text boxes also, see post 294288 by Bryon Carbonnell.
Cheers,

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Hi hans,

Great!

Thx for the quick reply.

Greetings,

Diederik

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I found that you can replace the second For Each loop with:

aStory.Fields.Update

But I don’t use any of the field types mentioned as an exception in the article you referenced, so I don’t know if they are updated by this line of code.

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I found that you can replace the second For Each loop with:

aStory.Fields.Update

But I don’t use any of the field types mentioned as an exception in the article you referenced, so I don’t know if they are updated by this line of code.

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