Word Bugs that dragged on for years

Right now, I have spent a whole afternoon trying to unsuccessfully fix a Word bug. I am using Word 365 for Mac.

I need to add a certain verbiage at the end of my official translationw, naming the date and the number of pages of the document. While the date field gets updated every time I open the file, the NUMPAGES field does not (nor does DOCPROPERTY PAGES)

I have tried to add a macro to force to update all fields upon open, however it only updates the page count to 3. I am not sure why, and I find it absurd to spend hours trying to fix something so basic.

Whenever I print the file, the fields get updated as I have checked the corresponding option in the settings.

Sub AutoOpen()
'
' AutoOpen Macro
' Macro that update document fields on Open

Dim aStory As Range   Dim aField As Field
   For Each aStory In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges
      For Each aField In aStory.Fields         aField.Update      Next aField
   Next aStory

End Sub

An alternative code I tried and that is not working, either is:

Sub UpdateFields()

' AutoOpen Macro
' Macro that update document fields on Open ì

Application.ScreenUpdating = False
ActiveDocument.PrintPreview
ActiveDocument.ClosePrintPreview
Application.ScreenUpdating = True


End Sub

Quote from Bombonera

Should …update document be updates document?

Yes, if you press ctrl+F9 the fields update. My point was automating this, since I don't want to have to remember to do it manually, otherwise I can simply write the number of pages myself.

I have created a macro-enabled template so that the new Word file has already the wording I need, and then I just type in the translation. However, if the translation runs longer than one page, the wording keeps reading "consisting of 1 page" instead of the actual number of pages.

If I print it, it is updated in the printed version. However, if I deliver the word file, the recipient still sees "consisting of 1 page" if I don't remember to update the fields.

An annoying bug, if you ask me!