Update Fields

In my Word 2003 document, there are a few fields. One is in the footer. I am
in the habit of hitting CTRL + A and then F9 to update the fields before
saving the document or printing it. But this does not appear to work for the
field in the footer. Is there a command for this, or do you just have to
remember to go into the footer to update the field? Thanks,

Ross Payne

Ross,

Toggle in and out of print preview.

I run a macro assigned to F9

Sub UpdateFields()
Dim oStory As Range
For Each oStory In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges
oStory.Fields.Update
If oStory.StoryType wdMainTextStory Then
While Not (oStory.NextStoryRange Is Nothing)
Set oStory = oStory.NextStoryRange
oStory.Fields.Update
Wend
End If
Next oStory
Set oStory = Nothing
End Sub

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Ross Payne wrote:
In my Word 2003 document, there are a few fields. One is in the
footer. I am in the habit of hitting CTRL + A and then F9 to update
the fields before saving the document or printing it. But this does
not appear to work for the field in the footer. Is there a command
for this, or do you just have to remember to go into the footer to
update the field? Thanks,

Ross Payne

Fields in the header/footer are automatically updated when you print (or
switch to Print Preview).

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Words into Type
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"Ross Payne" wrote in message
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In my Word 2003 document, there are a few fields. One is in the footer. I
am
in the habit of hitting CTRL + A and then F9 to update the fields before
saving the document or printing it. But this does not appear to work for
the
field in the footer. Is there a command for this, or do you just have to
remember to go into the footer to update the field? Thanks,

Ross Payne