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Method 2: Create a macro to automatically update the field To update the field manually, select the field that is contained in your Word document, and then press F9. To work around this behavior, use one of the following methods. This behavior is a design change in Microsoft Word 2002 and later to permit your Word document that contains a FILENAME field to open more quickly. When you open a document in one of the versions of Microsoft Word that is listed in the "Applies to" section of this article, the FILENAME field (and path if applicable) does not update to the name and the location of the file that you just opened. * Kindly Mark and Vote this reply if it helps, as it will be beneficial to more community members reading here.The FILENAME field does not automatically update when you open a document in Word Symptoms Apart from lock, perhaps there might be some macro may meet your needs in this scenario.Īdditionally, I will keep this thread open, if there are any community members who have experience of this scenario, it would be welcome them to share any suggestions and ideas.ĭihao - * Beware of scammers posting fake support numbers here. Which fields are updated when you open, repaginate, or print documentīased on my search, it seems that can stop updating field behavior only when we lock the field as you mentioned. Here is an additional document about field updates in word, you may have a look at your convenience. The document could lead to a update of the field, such as Docproperty last save time. The other form of automation in your document.įrom my findings and test, in most of scenario, the fields in document won’t update automatically, but with some exceptions, such as document properties like Author will be update automatically once we changed, or reopening From your description, you would like to prevent update fields automatically, as the field updates would affect Thank you for your posting your question in this community. How can Word be used like in the older Word versions in which the automatic update of the fields was not present? Or how can this 'new' automatic update of the fields be disabled? The current solution is to lock the fields, but this caused several other forms of automation When the fields are not locked this causes Word to be extremely slow and almost unworkable, since it is continuously updating the fields which don't need to be updated. This has worked very well for years, but since Word 2016 or Word 365 the update of the fields is now performed automatically, and also continuously without the use of F9. To update the fields a CTRL-A and a F9 was needed, or a Basic script was used. This is used to change header and footer information on each page depending on severalĭocument properties. Each created document contains a complex set of fields containing nested and the INT() function. We use Word documents based on a template.