MS Word - Bookmarks in Headers not updating correctly

[RichCowell]

Hi all,
I've got a document I'm using as a template with several sections.

Page 1 is a title page with the:

1. Document Title
2. Published Date
3. Updated Date

Those three items are all bookmarks.

Those three items are also included in the header of each page.

When I'm ready to finalise the file and update everything with F9, only the first page of each section updates - although the other pages show as having updated, when I exit the Header & Footer, the subsequent pages in each section revert back to the original text, and only the first page in each section has updated.

I've seen elsewhere online that it may be resolved with the following code:

foreach (Aspose.Words.Bookmark bookMark in
doc.Range.Bookmarks)
{
bookMark.Text = “New Text”;

}

Which I've added but it doesn't seem to make any difference.

Is anyone able to point me in the right direction?

(Also - if anyone knows of a way of updating the headers in all sections with one command rather than having to do each section individually, I'd be eternally grateful too!)

Thanks,

Rick

 

[RichCowell]

It does work there - provided the code is written to do so.

A simple workaround would be to.
1 Apply unique Style names to each of your Document Title, Published Date, & Updated Date ranges in the document body, (e.g. Title, Published , & Updated)
2. Replace the 'REF' in the cross-reference fields with 'STYLEREF' and delete \* MERGEFORMAT from the fields.
With those changes, the fields in the header will update any time the text in the Title, Published , & Updated Style ranges is updated.

Awesome, thank you! I've never used STYLEREF before - that's going to be really helpful going forwards!

 

[RichCowell]

Duplicate, sorry!