Word 2007 Macro to Update Document Properties

Can anyone out there provide some sample code that I could use to prompt and collect values for custom document properties and then do an update of all the fields throughout the doc? I have a document that has several variables that I currently go in and manually enter, then I do a "CTRL-A" to select all the text and right click and select "Update Fields".

Is there a way that I could run a macro, be prompted for all the values and then the document would generate itself?

Thanks in advance.

Microsoft Word

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ged125

8/22/2022 - Mon

Chris Bottomley

3/16/2009

Depending on what you require it could be a lot of work. For example I have devised a form on which I can enter changed data for document properties I add to the document. On pressing a button all fields are updated, issues creep up with non existing fields so I have various ini sections to address this.

The essence of the update is:
application.customdocumentproperties("propname").value = myform.mytextbox
application.customdocumentproperties("anotherpropname").value = myform.mynexttextbox
...

followed by
a loop
for each story in activedocument.storyranges
story.select
story.fields.update
selection.collapse direction:=wdcollapsestart
next

myform.hide
application.saved = false

Any help?

Chris

ged125

3/17/2009

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would it be possible to get the complete code?

ged125

3/17/2009

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application.customdocumentproperties isn't available for me. Any idea why?

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