enforcing file naming standards

J

Jesse C

Does anybody know of a program that will plug into the Save As dialog box and
allow you to require file names to be in a certain format, such as:

FAX 080305 supplies order.doc
^ ^ ^ ^
Type date description filetype
 
J

Jay Freedman

Does anybody know of a program that will plug into the Save As dialog box and
allow you to require file names to be in a certain format, such as:

FAX 080305 supplies order.doc
^ ^ ^ ^
Type date description filetype
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Not a "plug-in", but it would be possible to write a macro that intercepts the
Save As command, displays the Save As dialog, and checks the user's entry before
doing the actual save. If there are pieces of text in the document (identified
by form fields or bookmarks) that should be part of the file name, that can be
checked as well.

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/InterceptSavePrint.htm and
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/SetDefFilename.htm to get started. If
you need help, post in the microsoft.public.word.vba.beginners newsgroup
(http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...t.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.word.vba.beginners).
 
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