Template Problem re Footer, Word 2000

I'd like to modify my normal.dot template so that any
documents prepared from it will show, in the footer, the
filename but not the path. I've tried various combinations
of:

Document: { FILENAME }
Document:{ FILENAME }
Document: {FILENAME}
etc.

and none of them work to show the filename I assign to a new
document based on the normal.dot template. What shows up on
the document is whatever I have shown above as one of the
combinations.

Insight appreciated.

Thanks.

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CWLee
Former slayer of dragons; practice now limited to sacred
cows. Believing we should hire for quality, not quotas, and
promote for performance, not preferences.

How did you insert the field delimiters, { }? Note that you must add them by
pressing Ctrl+F9; otherwise the code won't work. If you did insert the field
correctly and you are still seeing the field codes, press Alt+F9 to hide
them.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"CWLee" wrote in message
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I'd like to modify my normal.dot template so that any documents prepared
from it will show, in the footer, the filename but not the path. I've
tried various combinations of:

Document: { FILENAME }
Document:{ FILENAME }
Document: {FILENAME}
etc.

and none of them work to show the filename I assign to a new document
based on the normal.dot template. What shows up on the document is
whatever I have shown above as one of the combinations.

Insight appreciated.

Thanks.

--
----------
CWLee
Former slayer of dragons; practice now limited to sacred
cows. Believing we should hire for quality, not quotas, and
promote for performance, not preferences.

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

How did you insert the field delimiters, { }? Note that
you must add them by
pressing Ctrl+F9; otherwise the code won't work. If you
did insert the field
correctly and you are still seeing the field codes, press
Alt+F9 to hide
them.

That solved the problem! I would never, in a million years,
found that solution on my own. This is another case where
the Help menus are not very helpful.

Thanks again.

Note, however, that adding anything to the header OR footer in Normal.dot is
not recommended. For one thing, it will mess up labels.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"CWLee" wrote in message
...

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

How did you insert the field delimiters, { }? Note that you must add them
by
pressing Ctrl+F9; otherwise the code won't work. If you did insert the
field
correctly and you are still seeing the field codes, press Alt+F9 to hide
them.

That solved the problem! I would never, in a million years, found that
solution on my own. This is another case where the Help menus are not
very helpful.

Thanks again.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Note, however, that adding anything to the header OR
footer in Normal.dot is not recommended. For one thing, it
will mess up labels.

I assume you mean printing of labels. Not a problem for me
since I never print labels.

If I leave the normal.dot template as it came from
Microsoft, is there a way for me to change the default
template that is used to open "document1" (etc.) when I
click on new in Word? I use that a lot, and I'd like to
avoid the problem, each time, of changing the fonts in the
body, the header, and the footer.

Thanks.

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...alTemplate.htm for
a rundown. You can start Word with a document based on another template
(there are a couple of ways to do this), but the New (FileNewDefault) button
will still open one based on Normal.dot.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"CWLee" wrote in message
...

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Note, however, that adding anything to the header OR footer in Normal.dot
is not recommended. For one thing, it will mess up labels.

I assume you mean printing of labels. Not a problem for me since I never
print labels.

If I leave the normal.dot template as it came from Microsoft, is there a
way for me to change the default template that is used to open "document1"
(etc.) when I click on new in Word? I use that a lot, and I'd like to
avoid the problem, each time, of changing the fonts in the body, the
header, and the footer.

Thanks.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...alTemplate.htm
for a rundown. You can ...

Thanks. That is a VERY helpful document. I wish there were
more of them on similar topics.

Thanks again.

I'm glad you found it helpful. There are plenty more of that ilk at that Web
site!

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"CWLee" wrote in message
...

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...alTemplate.htm
for a rundown. You can ...

Thanks. That is a VERY helpful document. I wish there were more of them
on similar topics.

Thanks again.