apply footer to all existing documents

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cstewart

I have decided to implement a footer policy on all documents for my company
including existing documents. I have modified the normal.dot template which
works great for new documents but when I bring in an existing document is
there a way to modify it simply and add the footer with document path. I
have tried to use the Automatically update document styles option as well.
 
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Graham Mayor

Adding a footer to normal.dot will cause all kinds of grief. Let's hope your
users don't need to print labels, for example. Are we to gather from this
also that you are sharing a normal.dot template between users? That's an
even worse recipe for disaster. Normal.dot is not designed to be used in
this manner. It is an individual user file.

The better way to implement such a footer policy is to use dedicated
document templates for new documents and for existing documents you need to
save the formatted footer information as an autotext and insert it where
missing with vba.


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