Help on how to populate fields on a Word document?

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ImOkYoureNot - 04 Aug 2004 22:23 GMT

I have the following in my document (Word 2002 on Windows XP)

I would like to have a document and place some fields on it. A macro
will then execute and populate the fields with information. There will
be no database access so I will not use mailmerge.

I tried adding {DOCVARIABLE CoName } but it doesnt seem to show the
values when I toggle.

E.g.

ActiveDocument.Variables("CoName").value = "My Company Name"

What am I doing wrong?

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Doug Robbins - 05 Aug 2004 00:23 GMT

In addition to toggling off the display of the field codes, it will be
necessary to update the fields to show the information that is stored in the
variable.

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>I have the following in my document (Word 2002 on Windows XP)
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ImOkYoureNot - 05 Aug 2004 15:23 GMT

> In addition to toggling off the display of the field codes, it will be
> necessary to update the fields to show the information that is stored in the
> variable.

What do you mean by "Update the fields". I run the macro. Then switch
to the document and see nothing. Do I have to do something else? (I do
toggle the field codes)

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Doug Robbins - 06 Aug 2004 01:36 GMT

Ctrl+a then F9

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>> In addition to toggling off the display of the field codes, it will be
>> necessary to update the fields to show the information that is stored in
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