Newbies Word 2010 Problem

kev85 · July 22nd, 2011, 01:36 AM

Hey All,

I'm completely new to this, so forgive my ignorance. All I'm doing is creating a Form for a template with a few fields. What I want to do is fill out the form, and then update the DocVariables in the word document. The form works fine when I run it from the VBA editor, however when I try to create a new document with the template it only updates some of the DocVariables.

It will update the Title, and the Name/ID/Course/Assignment in the header of the second page. However, it WONT update the Name/ID/Course/Assignment DocVariables on the first page. I'm assuming its just a simple error in some of my logic - the following is the code I'm using:

Code:

Sub CallUF()

Dim oFrm As Assignment
Dim oVars As Word.Variables
Set oVars = ActiveDocument.Variables
Set oFrm = New Assignment
With oFrm
    .Show
    If .boolProceed Then
        oVars("varTitle").Value = .tTitle
        oVars("varName").Value = .tName
        oVars("varStudent").Value = .tStudent
        oVars("varCourse").Value = .tCourse
        oVars("varAssignment").Value = .tAssignment
        myUpdateFields
    Else
        MsgBox "Form cancelled by user"
    End If
End With
Unload oFrm
Set oFrm = Nothing
Set oVars = Nothing

End Sub

Sub myUpdateFields()
Dim pRange As Word.Range
For Each pRange In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges
   Do
      pRange.Fields.Update
      Set pRange = pRange.NextStoryRange
   Loop Until pRange Is Nothing
Next
End Sub

Thanks Very Much Everyone!

Shasur · July 27th, 2011, 12:26 PM

Is there anything to do with the ActiveDocument; this has always been the gray area. Try to code with something like

Documents("Docname").

etc so that you are sure that the changes happen on the document you want

Cheers
Shasur

kev85 · July 27th, 2011, 05:44 PM

Aha, thanks man, just looked into it - and it's working like a charm now.

Just on a side-note, is there any automated way to get rid of all the DocVariables and macros after running the template so that the new document appears as just a regular document?

I noticed that when I open a document made off this template on other computers - I get warnings about macros and can see the DocVariables highlight when I run my cursour over them. I don't want to give assignments to my lecturers, however, with macro warnings and docVariables all over the place if I can help it.

Is there a way to just convert the document to a regular docx text file after running the template for the first time?

Thanks again!

Shasur · July 29th, 2011, 12:41 PM

You can loop through the docvariable count and remove them and can also remove the code file from the VBA project before saving;

But I think you can do this by saving your file as a normal docx file (instead of docm file). If this works it save lot of work for you

Cheers
Shasur