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Can Word automatically suggest/prompt document property 'Title' when saving the document?
In Word 365, I have created a Letter template with an AutoNew macro and a userform that prompts the user to fill in various details of the letter (title/heading, recipient, case no., etc.) and this i...
See the article "How to set the default suggested filename to be displayed by the Save As dialog the first time a user saves a new document” at:
See the article "How to set the default suggested filename to be displayed by the Save As dialog the first time a user saves a new document” at:
Doug_Robbins_Word_MVP
It works!! Thank you so much for pointing me in the right direction!
Only little hitch is that it only works when using Ctrl+s or clicking in the Save icon, not when using the Word dropdown menu File, Save…, then there is no file name suggested at all – do you know why?
Can that saving method be pre-populated with the title too? Or is that out of reach for Word/VBA?
It works!! Thank you so much for pointing me in the right direction!
Only little hitch is that it only works when using Ctrl+s or clicking in the Save icon, not when using the Word dropdown menu File, Save…, then there is no file name suggested at all – do you know why?
Can that saving method be pre-populated with the title too? Or is that out of reach for Word/VBA?
ChristineB In my experimentation, it works when using File>Save, but not if you use File>Save As.
This is what I get when using menu File, Save to save (the grey text 'Angiv filnavnet her' means 'Write file name here')
FileSave
And when I use Ctrl+s; the document title is correctly suggested as file name (sorry about the Danish user interface):
Ctrl+s
Maybe something in my Word settings??
- @Doug_Robbins_Word_MVPc
I will test the solution on a few other PCs with slightly different Word installations and see if that makes a difference...