Update TOC using macro

[sliuParticipant]

Hi Eric,

I watched your part 5 of Updating TOC using AutoOpen macro. At the end of the video, you mentioned another approach, that is creating a macro enabled Word document. I assume the macro is similar to AutoOpen, but I don’t know how to invoke the macro. I couldn’t find the screen cast for this approach. Can you describe it for me how to do it?

Thanks in advance!!!

[Eric WhiteKeymaster]

Hi @sliu,

At the time I was working on that screen-cast series, I got diverted to another project, and never recorded the approach using a macro enabled document, and I’m afraid I don’t remember the details. But I still believe it to be possible to create a macro-enabled document. See the following:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Run-a-macro-5e855fd2-02d1-45f5-90a3-50e645fe3155#bmrunmacroautomatically

Cheers, Eric

[sliuParticipant]

I tried macro enabled Word document. I created AutoOpen and AutoExec macros in my docm. However the macros are not called when Word document opens. I don’t know how to invoke the macros automatically. So I will keep the macro in normal.dotm.

Thanks

[Eric WhiteKeymaster]

Just checking – the macro name should be Auto_Open, not AutoOpen.

It may be that Microsoft has completely removed this feature due to security concerns.

[sliuParticipant]

I tried AutoOpen in .dotm. It doesn’t work. I’m using Office 2016. I think Microsoft has removed this feature. I just save the macro in Normal.dotm. This still works.

Thanks for your help!

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