Re: updating includetext fields from a macro

[Steve Hudson <sh1448291904 -at- gmail -dot- com>]

At this stage my main concern is more about is the 'update source' then
'update field' enough to pull the updated material from its SharePoint
location, because you originally indicated that the 'updated source' alone
wasn't doing the job.

On 10 June 2015 at 13:20, Jay Maechtlen <techwriter -at- laserpubs -dot- com> wrote:

> Since there are many included files and many TOC fields, I'd rather make
> sure the includetext fields get updated first.
> Then I loop through and update each TOC completely.
> Then, knowing that the doc has its final length and pagination, I loop
> back through and update each TOC, page numbers only.
>
> When I get a few moments, I'll go through and have another look.
> There has to be some way to know if a field updated or not, perhaps by
> looking at file date or such.
>
> On 6/8/2015 12:20 PM, Weissman, Jessica wrote:
>
>> Last time I tested activedocument.fields.update it updated only the
>> fields in the main text story.  That should be sufficient for includetext
>> fields.
>>
>> If you want to update everything including headers and footers and
>> footnotes and all that, use this. Tested in 2007 and 2010.
>>
>> Sub UpdateAllFieldsEverywhere()
>> ' updates fields in all stories, not just main text
>> 'variable declaration
>> Dim story As Word.Range
>> For Each story In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges
>>      story.Fields.Update
>> Next story
>> End Sub
>>
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