Question

Word macro to toggle tracked changes after running an "update fields"

Macros, track changes

I have a macro that will turn off track changes (if they are on or leave them off if they are off) and then update the field codes in the document. Now I need to know how to return the document to its original state after it runs the update portion of the macro (track changes back on if they were on initially or leave them off if they were off initially)

Generally with the properties of an object if you use the object property in an assignment of a variable it returns teh current state. I would say to use the same object where you turn change tracking off to plug into a temporary variable the value when you start.

Then the last thing you should do (or one of them) is to set the tracking "object" to the value of the variable.

I'm not familiar with programatically turning change tracking on and off in Word but it would look something like this:

Dim TrackingState

TrackingState = objWord.document.trackchanges
...
objWord.document.trackchanges = False 'this is the command you already have to turn the tracking off
...
objWord.document.trackchanges. TrackingState