hi andrew.
Andrew Brown wrote:
great. if you could send it to my email off-list, that would be nice. i'll play around with it and hopefully think of something.Urska Colner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:4215A0EC.20004 @agenda.si:
anyone knows of a macro that would let me apply an incremented document number to a newly opened document?
Not as such. I can let you have a macro which saves letters and things with a filename based on the day's date. But that's not quite what you want. It does, however, show you how to construct filenames for saving under.
if not, I could use some advice: what is the best way to do that? should the document number depend on the number of documents, currently stored in a directory or would it be better to have the number depend on a template. that means that the number would increment when a new empty document was opened from *the same* template.
Countig th enumber of files in a directory is certainly wrong, for the reasons you suggest.
thought so. :(
For incrementing things, could you store the incremented number in one of the document properties fields of the template you're using (it would be a string, of course, and you'd have to convert it to increment it). But it could be a string of essentially arbitrary length, which you may need, as you come up to your millionth document.great idea. i thought it might be something along these lines, but didn't think of this one.
no problem. suggestions are what i was looking for in the first place. i'll let you know if i come up with something useful.
NOte: I haven't tested this at all. Just trying to be helpful.
urska
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