re: Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Reset the Revision Number of a Word Document to 1?

RevNum in Word — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:58:49 GMT

If it's just about printing the desired version number somewhere in the document (like in the footer, or so), here is a workaround:

(1) You put somewhere in the word document the field "RevNum" and associate it with a bookmark, e.g. "RevCounter". You can hide that field or print it in white, if you don't want it to appear on a printout or on the screen.

(2) If you want to display your intial version with "1", when the RevNum has advanced to 5, you type somewhere a "4" and define that as another bookmark (e.g. "Offset"), which you may want to hide as well.

(3) For displaying the wanted "version 1", you use a Field with the Formula "{RevCounter - Offset}".

(4) If again your versioning advances faster than you want, you just change the number you typed at the offset bookmark.

re: Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Reset the Revision Number of a Word Document to 1?

Yan Watts — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:07:13 GMT

Yeah, saving it 23 times is pretty wacky. Or you could just use something like www.wordprops.com and edit all the metadata of the codocument. Worked for me like a charm, both in old .doc and new .docx files