atw: Re: Is MS Word really this bad?
- From: Bob Trussler <bob.trussler@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 23:06:52 +1000
Geoffrey,
This kind of text that updates can be done using fields and properties and
so on.
File / Properties. At the dialog box, click Summary tag.
Then complete a few text fields, that you cannot rename, plonk these fields
where you need them in the document, and update - go to each one and press
F9, OR to update every field in the doc, Ctrl+A, then F9.
Alternatively, you can click the Custom tag and make your own fileds (or
create if you are a god-like creature) and use them ... Ummm ... somehow.
I don't use it much because it is not intuitive and therefore the users tend
to upset it or break it too often. It is also not in your face and so they
don't bother.
Does Ctrl+A (Select All) then F9 update everything? It seemed to work in a
quick test.
Bob T
2009/5/31 Geoffrey Marnell <geoffrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Hi austechies,
>
> Perhaps I've been living on that holiday island called Adobe FrameMaker for
> too long, and expect MS Word to be similarly intuitive and smart. Or maybe
> I'm just a fool for thinking so. But I've gone bald today trying to do this:
>
> - get a string of characters in various footers to automatically
> reflect text a user enters into a text box on the first page of the
> document.
>
> Simple in FrameMaker. But in MS Word?
>
> If I assign a bookmark to the text in the text box, there is no automatic
> updating. I have to go to each footer (each footer in each section) and
> manually update the cross-reference. Even so, If the user completely changes
> the text in the text box—which I expect they will do often—the bookmark
> vanishes and no form of updating inserts the new text in any footer. The
> result is an error message. The same occurs if I cross-reference a heading
> rather than a bookmark. Completely change the text of the heading, and
> bingo: every cross-reference to it converts to an error message on updating.
>
> In FrameMaker you can cross-reference any paragraph tag—not just the eight
> reference types MS Word gives you—and if the entire text so tagged
> changes, each cross-reference to it also changes—automatically—and
> regardless of whether it is in the body of the document or in a footer or
> header. Simple, intuitive, what anyone might expect.
>
> Do I really need to master VBA to use MS Word and keep my hair?
>
> BTW: I'm using MS Word 2003.
>
>
> Geoffrey Marnell
> Principal Consultant
> Abelard Consulting Pty Ltd
> T: +61 3 9596 3456
> F: +61 3 9596 3625
> W: www.abelard.com.au
>
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