Update fields in Header/Footer

[ML]

Is there a way to force the fields inside the header/footer to
refresh/update but on for the page the user is currently on?
I want to be able to update this without the need to update all sections and
pages so that it is much faster when just dealing with one page.

 

[Greg]

ML,

Not sure I understand exactly what you are trying to do. You might be
able to adapt one of the field macros provided here to suit your
particular need:
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Field_Macros.htm

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Probably this

With Selection.Sections(1)
.Headers(wdHeaderFooterPrimary).Range.Fields.Update
.Headers(wdHeaderFooterFirstPage).Range.Fields.Update
.Footers(wdHeaderFooterFirstPage).Range.Fields.Update
.Footers(wdHeaderFooterPrimary).Range.Fields.Update
End With

but I would be very surprised if you were able to detect the difference in
performance between that and

Dim i As Long
With ActiveDocument
For i = 1 To .Sections.Count
With .Sections(i)
.Headers(wdHeaderFooterPrimary).Range.Fields.Update
.Headers(wdHeaderFooterFirstPage).Range.Fields.Update
.Footers(wdHeaderFooterFirstPage).Range.Fields.Update
.Footers(wdHeaderFooterPrimary).Range.Fields.Update
End With
Next i
End With

which will update the fields in all of the headers and footers in the
document.


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[ML]

The performance issues is because Word repaginates it seems no matter what
you do and in a long document it slows things down too much.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Headers and footers are not in just one page, but one section (which may be
the entire document).
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[Jezebel]

Updating fields in headers and footers for some vs all sections will have no
effect on Word's repagination.

 

[ML]

I am well aware of that. I was just hoping there might be a way to just
refresh the current page fields or something along those lines.

 

[Jezebel]

If you are well aware of that, the hope is self-evidently absurd.

 

[ML]

Well despite headers and footers not being page specific you can make them
have page specific info displayed in them.
Thanks though for your comment, very helpful.

 

[Jezebel]

Gegen der Dummheit kämpfen die Götter selbst vergebens.

 

[ML]

Thanks again.

Gegen der Dummheit kämpfen die Götter selbst vergebens.