The annoying link is a security feature because some of these links have
been used to transmit information about people's computers to others
secretly. I don't know how to turn it off but believe it can be turned off.
I do something similar with my letterhead. I started by using AutoText
fields with the master information being contained in a global template. I
stopped doing this because I didn't want existing documents to change, only
new ones. (Your method has the same weakness.) AutoText fields will not give
you the error message and you would not have to disable this security
feature.
What works to update templates with new information for new documents is to
have a separate template or document that contains the headers/footers in
the body of the document marked with bookmarks. Note that even though these
are in the body of the storage document, they use header and footer styles.
I then have an AutoNew macro in templates that inserts this bookmarked text
in appropriate places in the new document. That way, new documents have the
latest information while historical documents stay on disk the way they were
on paper.
I have a further refinement of this in the form of a base template where
other templates are derived from this base (using SaveAs). The derivative
templates automatically update their information from the base when creating
a new document. It is possible to have multiple base templates. Send me an
email at
[email protected] and I'll send you a
sample.
The best solution I know of has been used by Dave Rado, I believe. It
involves having a single template with a userform that selects the template
content. I'm not at that level, yet.
--
Charles Kenyon
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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
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See also the MVP FAQ: <URL:
http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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Fredrick said:
I have multiple documents that use the same header and footer which
changed often, so I created a separate document for the header and footer
and made a link to all the other documents so that updates on the header and
footer would be pushed to all the other documents. The problem I am having
(not really a problem, just annoying) is when you open one of the other
documents, you get a prompt "This document contains links that may refer to
other files. Do you want to update this document with the data from the
linked files?" I have selected Auto Update under the link options, but I
still get this message. How do I disable this prompt and have the links
update automatically?
