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The company I work for requires that every document we provide has a footer. Currently we add the base footer:

ABC Inc/{FileName}/{CreatedDate}/

to the Normal.dotm for everyone and they have to manually change their document's footer with the correct name and date:

ABC Inc/Superuser Question/Sep 8 2009/

How can I change the Normal.dotm to automatically insert the file name and current date in the footer when the user saves their document?

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In Word 2007, edit the footer (Insert - Footer - Edit Footer).

  • Type the "ABC Inc/"
  • In the Ribbon, go to Insert, Quick Parts, Fields
  • For the filename, use the field "FileName"
  • Type the "/" separator
  • For the date, use the field "SaveDate" (you can select the format)
  • Type the ending "/"
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This is not working with Templates – dr. Sep 8 '09 at 16:49
What's not working? – Snark Sep 8 '09 at 16:57
I added the fields to a template and saved as normal2.dotm. Replace normal.dotm with normal2.dotm. Create new document. Save new document as test_doc. Footer shows ABC Inc/normal2.dotm/XXX 0000/ – dr. Sep 8 '09 at 17:02
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After you save the document the fields in the footer won't be updated to reflect the new name and date. Do a print preview to force them to be updated and you should see this working. (likewise a print would do the same thing but waste paper...)

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