>Sergey, i appreciate your response, and it does the trick, but is not exactly what i want.
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>What you've provided works great if I want to save the document right away in word. What i'm looking for is, WHEN i want to save the document in word, that the file name listed in the save as box is the same as the title in the properties.
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>As an example of what i'm looking for without using automation: i create a word template. in the properties of the word template, i call the title something like "newtemplate". any time someone uses the template to create a new document, and then uses save as, the name in the save as box is "newtemplate.doc".
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>can this be done - or is the dialogbox the only way of doing this? Thanks for your help.
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I don't think you can change the name in the Save Dialog w/o using the Dialog object or saving document first but I'm not 100% sure about that.