Re: Document Title Property wont stay
- From: John McGhie <john@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:01:50 +1000
Hi Peter:
Damn straight it's not well known. I suspect you are the only person in the
known universe who knew that one!!
Many thanks {files away securely...}
Cheers
On 14/8/07 8:42 PM, in article #ZVMoAm3HHA.464@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Peter
Jamieson" <pjj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
a. you create a document and start by putting {the fields { Title } {
Subject } in the header. Except by mistake, you put { Title Subject }. I
suspect it's not well-known that such a field will update the title when
executed.
b. you change the layout so it's "different first page". However, the
header you entered is the standard "Header", so it now disappears from page
1, which now has the "First Page Header"
c. You change the title to mytitle, then save and close the document
d. You re-open the document, and one way or another, execute all the fields
in it - merely opening it would not, I think, cause the problem you describe
in this case. But as soon as you Print Preview, for example, everything is
updated, including that { Title Subject } field, even though you have no
page 2 in section 1, and even if you never had one.
e. You end up with "Subject" in the Title property.
That occurs in Mac Word 2004, WinWord 2003 and 2007 and I would guess it's
the same in most earlier versions.
Peter Jamieson
"Stuart Weylandsmith" <sweylandsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:C2E4957B.7CFB%sweylandsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks John,
Option 1) Saving is being done first so wasn't this issue. Strangely the
text in the Title property in the template wasn't saved but replaced by
some
other text - namely the word "Subject".
Option 2) I checked these out. Unless it is a default condition, I can't
find either "link to content" option for the standard document properties.
None of my custom properties had the "link to content" enabled - but then
again they weren't giving me any grief anyway.
Option 3) This looked promising so I gave it a try. In the process I
discovered something quite interesting. The first section of my document
template only had a first page. The second and third sections had the
"different first page" option disabled. Interestingly, hidden in the
header
of the second page of the first section was a couple of fields drawing
upon
my errant document property. I removed this unused second page header and
the problem seems to have gone away.
Why? I can but speculate. Could the standard document properties have a
default "link to content" option? If so, I had content within the
document
that although hidden was automatically updating the title property. I
don't
know but thanks to John I at least had some options to try and ended up
with
a solution - at least for the present . .
Stuart
On 11/8/07 12:43 AM, in article C2E29AA1.66A5%john@xxxxxxxxxxx, "John
McGhie" <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Stuart:
I'll give you three clues, but I can't be certain of any of them.
1) Some document properties will not update until you save and close the
document. Try that.
2) If you have a document property with "Link to content" enabled,
strange
things will happen if you also update it without updating the content to
which you have linked it. This is the most likely cause of your
particular
bother.
3) If a document corrupts, the Properties object can become read-only
(or
parts of it can). This may be what's happening to you. To test this,
copy
all but the last paragraph mark into a new blank document. If that fixes
it, you will have to reset the section properties manually.
Hope this helps
On 10/8/07 12:57 PM, in article
C2E22D3F.7C9E%sweylandsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Stuart Weylandsmith"
<sweylandsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mac OSX 10.4.10 Office Word 11.3.5.
I use the document properties as inserted fields in many of the
documents I
write. For some perplexing reason the 'title' property field refuses to
hold the data I enter. Well that is not quite true. If I enter
something
like "Red Apples" in the title property I can update my document and
wherever this field is used it will be updated to "Red Apples". So far
so
good. However, if I do something like attempt to print - an action that
generally attempts to update all fields within the document, the title
property will revert to the word "Subject" and all fields using the
title
property will be updated to the word "Subject"
This is most perplexing. It doesn't happen with any of the other
document
properties either the standard ones or any of the custom ones I have
added.
I've tried removing all global and document templates. There are no
macros
attached to the document. (In fact there are no Office macros full stop)
Anyone got a clue?
Stuart
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