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I forgot to add that this is Word 2003 Professional

"MoGH" wrote:

> In a previous post, I asked about methods for linking separate files into a
> single document with a single TOC. I was directed away from using Master
> documents, and towards using the {RD \f} feature.
>
> This appears to work just fine. I insert the bracket(s), type in the file
> name(s), generate the TOC. Of course each file starts page numbering at 1.
> From this point, it was a short jump to using a macro created to count the
> number of pages in a document and key off of that. I did not devlope this
> macro but am using the one provided in the article
>
> http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=148
>
> Here's my problem. It works great, at first. I open and close the main
> document, happily add more documents, generate a new TOC, update the page
> numbers, save, close, open, etc. Then I go home for the day. The next day,
> when I try to run the macro (yes, I enabled macros upon opening the
> document), having made no changes in any of the documents, the macro won't
> run. It hangs up on the first document with the following:
>
> Runtime error '5174'
> file could not be found
> check spelling, try different file name, etc
>
> File names did not change from the previous day. Removing the first file
> from the {RD} list doesn't solve the problem. The debugger doesn't help at
> all, showing a stop at this line in the macro:
>
> Set oDoc = Documents.Open(FileName:=strCode)
>
> If I remove all the RD coding, and start over, it all works again, until the
> next day, when the whole error cycle begins again.
>
> Whats going on and how do I fix it?
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