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Well, I realised that I could use Ctrl-Alt-Del, and from there I found the logoff/restart button. Right clicking on it, I got the menu that allowed me to choose the option where it reinstalled windows.

I’ve kept data, but will have to reinstall all the apps. Oh joy.

Thanks, re Wyatt’s article – I’ll have a look… I need to restart my system now, but I did find an instance of the old company name in the register, which I’ve updated. I hope that will do the trick.

EDIT
Despite updating the register, it STILL came up with the old organisation name.

I have checked all the code in the autoexec and autonew macros too – it’s not coded in VBA.

Thanks, Charles!

I’ll have a go at that IF I can’t find a way to make a simple edit to the normal.dotm file work.

Perhaps I’ll have to check my code to see if somewhere, some time, I set the company field in code (I’ve been modifying these templates for nearly 20 years). But I don’t think I did.

Thank you!

By editing the styles in my template document and ensuring all the paras in it had the paragraph style applied correctly I’ve sorted the language issue. New documents now appear in English, even after I’ve commented out the autonew code.

But new documents based on the template still seem to keep the old “Company” field.

Thanks, Andrew. Sorry not to have replied sooner – I’ve had to park this project for a while – those look like a really useful approach.

Presumably I could set [a] bookmark for the part of the letter I want to unlink the text from fields, select them, unlink the fields in them, and then remove the bookmarks…

When I get a chance to revisit this I’ll have a go at that.

Peter.

I used fields. It seemed the easiest way…

Thank you.

I’d already tried without Norton – didn’t work.

So I did do a full reset. It was a nuisance having to backup and restore all the files, and reinstall all the programmes I use, but I’ve nearly finished.

The ability to set up restore points has now returned, and I’ve been able to install iT

Well, I refreshed the ‘puter, and now I can’t install software… Will create a separate post.

Thanks for the suggestions.

I don’t think it’s a Norton problem because, since the refresh, Norton isn’t running. The computer was a new (Sony Vaio) laptop, purchased end December 2012 with Windows 8 preinstalled.

I’ve tried the troubleshooter, and checking norton. I’ve now “refreshed” the computer, losing all the software I’d installed (Office, eWallet, chrome, Norton…) and I still have no working metro apps. I guess I’ll just have to plug in an external hard drive, copy all my data files onto it, and do a complete reinstall. Ugh. It’ll be a week or so before the machine’s working again – I don’t know if I’m right to blame Windows 8, but it seems the most likely candidate…

Any other suggestions before I spend days reinstalling everything?

We “upgraded” to Office 2010 at work recently.

I’d been using google calendar sync to keep my calendars sync’ed on outlook with my android phone (I hate using the work blackberry! – and it’s easier to use the one phone).

I’ve just discovered that it doesn’t appear to be sync’ing any more. I hope that Microsoft and Google will come to an agreement.

Wow – what a lot of data is collected in those forms! Thank you so much, though – I think I can see the syntax I need now.

So, if the text box in my form is called Box_SenderName, I can use:

With ActiveDocument
.Variables(“SenderName”).Value = Trim(Box_SenderName.Value)
End With

to get the content of the form’s text box into a custom document variable called Sendername…

Presumably

With ActiveDocument
.Variables(“SenderName”).Value = str_SenderName
End With

will also work.

I’ll try that tomorrow!

Thank you very much!

Nope. “Invalid procedure call or argument”.

Another approach… Document Custom Properties
I can edit the template to include custom properties. (Office button aka File|prEpare|Properties, document properties dropdown menu, Advanced Properties, Custom tab, type in the new custom property’s name and a default value…

I could, for example, create a custom property “SendersName”.

I can then use the DOCPROPERTY field: {DOCPROPERTY SenderName * MERGEFORMAT}.

Then I could get the VBA code in the form to set the property to the value of the string str_SendersName. Then all I need to do is to select the document and update all fields..

So I now need to work out how to set the DOCPROPERTY to the new value, based on the form input. Assuming I’ve succeeded in setting str_SendersName to e.g. “Dr Peter English” I think I need something like:

With CustomDocumentProperties
.Add Name = “SendersName”, Type:=String, Value:=str_SendersName, LinktoContent:=False
End With

There’s only one account on this laptop: me; and I am set as administrator. I also used “run as administrator”.