Unique identifier (uid)

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Jean-Guy Marcil

Emily was telling us:
Emily nous racontait que :
Is MS Word able to generate unique identifiers (uid) like the
AutoNumber in Access?
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Strictly speaking, no.

What do you want to do? There are ways of doing something like that, but it
depends on how the document will be used and how/when the number has to be
generated.

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Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
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Emily

Thanks for your reply.
I'm writing a requirements spec and I would like to identify uniquely the
sentences with a unique number. The number shall be incremented each time it
is inserted. Is MS Word has this feature build in or is it possible to write
a macro for that ?

Thanks,
Emily
 
J

Jean-Guy Marcil

Emily was telling us:
Emily nous racontait que :
Thanks for your reply.
I'm writing a requirements spec and I would like to identify uniquely
the sentences with a unique number. The number shall be incremented
each time it is inserted. Is MS Word has this feature build in or is
it possible to write a macro for that ?
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Can't you use paragraph numbering (or LISTNUM fields) for that?

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Salut!
_______________________________________
Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
[email protected]
Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org
 
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Emily

The LISTNUM and the SEQ fields seems to not be unique.
It is possible to delete one sentence with its number and then insert a new
one with the same number.
 
J

Jean-Guy Marcil

Emily was telling us:
Emily nous racontait que :
The LISTNUM and the SEQ fields seems to not be unique.
It is possible to delete one sentence with its number and then insert
a new one with the same number.
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In that case, unless you have very heavy event checking code that runs all
the time, and that will fairly complicated to write so that you catch all
possible scenarios, I think you really have to use Access or some other
database system to store the sentences.

I did something similar for a client. An access programmer created the
database, we inserted the sentences in Word with DATABASE fields and used
styles to format the resulting document.

But it is a lot of work.

Still, someone could be along with an alternative... I may be too deep in
the forest to see the trees...
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Salut!
_______________________________________
Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
[email protected]
Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org
 
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