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MS Office Forum / Word / Mailmerge and Fax / April 2004Fill-in Fields in a Header
Using Word 2002 there is a problem when a fill-in field is added into a header. If the document is printed, it then asks to re-enter all the fill-in fields in the document in reverse order. When all fill-in fields are 'OK'ed to get rid of them, the document prints with no problems. Apparently, someone in our office knew an option to fix this, but for the life of me I can't find it now! :-) Interestingly, when the fill-in field in the header is deleted, and the document closed & opened, the problem still occurs. Cheers, Caroline. Fields in headers/footers seem to update on printing whether or not you have the print option checked to update fields. You could use an ASK field in the body of your document with a corresponding REF field in the header/footer. You could also look into using a UserForm to gather the information for your document and insert it in the appropriate places. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms/CreateAUserForm.htm. Another option that won't require programming and may work is an online form. Check this in help. For more about online forms, follow the links at http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms or http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/FillinTheBlanks.htm especially Dian Chapman's series of articles. Hope this helps,  SignatureCharles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. > Using Word 2002 there is a problem when a fill-in field is > added into a header. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Cheers, > Caroline. Thanks Charles, My first response to this was also "Just don't put fields in the header!" :-) The Ref Field may be what we need, as I have to be able to explain the solution to people who don't have little Word experience. I did think at first that they had the 'update fields' option ticked in Print Options, but soon found out that it made no difference when the field is in the header. An odd problem, no? Anyway, I will play around with the Ref field. Thanks for your response. Cheers, Caroline. Note that except in merge situations, ASK fields have to be triggered with a macro or manually. You may want to download my ASK field tutorial from http://addbalance.com/word/download.htm. SignatureCharles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. > Thanks Charles, > My first response to this was also "Just don't put fields [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > Cheers, > Caroline. |
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