microsoft.public.word.vba.general

Your application is probably missing the code that is required to update the
fields.

The lazy man's way to do it is use

With ActiveDocument
.PrintPreview
.ClosePrintPreview
End With

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"RikGarner" wrote in message
news:61F54756-3325-4C5E-8629-05998837B597@microsoft.com...
> I've got an old asp.net app that populates some custom fields on a word
> document it generates. These fields are embeded in the text so that the
> values are inserted into the letter (things like addressee_name etc) and
> can
> be seen when the document is opened. To do some maintenance we have moved
> the
> app onto a new (virtual) development server but now the text doesn't get
> updated immediately when the properties are written - yet this does happen
> on
> our production system. If you Select All and Update Fields (Ctl-A, F9) the
> values appear so the properties are being written OK. Does anyone know
> what I
> am missing?
> (The original developer has left the company, hence my confusion).
> R