Autoupdate Date Field and Open a Particular Page in MS Word 2007

1. You could use this code (in the 'This Document' part of the VB Editor):

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2. When you 'Insert Date and Time' make sure you select the 'Update Automatically' box at the bottom-right. Date fields should automatically update on opening. It is possible to get it to update before saving, but the VBA is more complicated, from what I read.

Hope that helps.

Try putting a bookmark after the text, then go to it instead of the page:

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Let me have a bit of a play with the date/time field updating on save. I'm not a VBA expert so there will be a lot of trial and error, so it may take me some time, sorry.

Word DATE fields auto-update upon opening a document or upon other user actions that cause it to update (e.g. printing, print-preview), not on saving or closing a document.

Try:

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Originally Posted by Quivolt

I hope you can get a solution to auto update saved date and time fields

As I already said:

Originally Posted by macropod

Word DATE fields auto-update upon opening a document or upon other user actions that cause it to update (e.g. printing, print-preview), not on saving or closing a document.

Now you mention "saved date and time fields". That uses a SAVEDATE field, not a DATE field. It's behaviour is essentially the same, though. Still, it's not clear what you expect to happen. If you:
• update the field before saving a document, it has nothing to report;
• save a document, then update the field, doing so renders the document's saved state 'dirty' and you'd have to re-save it to retain that date/time - which is no longer the last saved date/time, since you've now saved it again - creating a never-ending loop.

I think the OP wants a date/time field which works like a last-saved field, but updating with the date and time as of when save is pressed. In other words: user presses save (button or Ctrl-S), file updates field with current date & time, then saves. That would mean intercepting the save with a 'BeforeSave' type macro, which is way beyond my skills...

Originally Posted by Aardigspook

I think the OP wants a date/time field which works like a last-saved field, but updating with the date and time as of when save is pressed

A DocumentBeforeSave macro could be as simple as:

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Its implementation is rather more complicated than simply adding that to the document, though. See:
http://wordmvp.com/FAQs/MacrosVBA/AppClassEvents.htm
http://wordmvp.com/FAQs/MacrosVBA/In...tSavePrint.htm

Originally Posted by macropod

Its implementation is rather more complicated than simply adding that to the document, though.

Yeah, that's why it's beyond my skills...

@Quivolt: Thanks for the rep, glad we could help with one of your questions, sorry we couldn't fix the other one for you too.

It's not particularly difficult - just not as obvious or straightforward as an 'ordinary' macro.