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Brenda A. Reid - 10 Sep 2004 15:51 GMT

WinXP
Office 2002

I have a template created where I'd like to automate some paragraphs based
on a users answer to some questions. Here is what I have:

{fillin "Are there any restrictions on objects? (y / n)"}

If the user answers y, the paragraph would read blah, blah, blah but if the
user answered n, then the paragraph would read yeah yeah yeah.

Any help to get me started would be great. Tks in advance . . .

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Greg - 10 Sep 2004 16:14 GMT

Brenda,

FILLINs don't create a bookmark to reference. Try an ASK
and IF field combination:

{ASK Question "Are there any restrictions on objects?
(y/n)"}(IF { Question } = "y""Blah, Blah""Yeah,yeah" }

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Brenda A. Reid - 10 Sep 2004 18:49 GMT

This looks like it's exactly what I need but when I open the .dot file, it's
only asking me the "fillin" fields and ignoring the Ask field. ???

This is what I have in my document:

{ASK restrictions "Are there any restrictions on objects? (y/n)"}

Further down in my document where the choice is to be made I have:

{IF restrictions = "n" "There are no restrictions on the objects."
"Restrictions on the objects and powers of the Company are as set forth in
Schedule 'A' hereto."}

Nothing seems to be happening . . .

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Greg - 10 Sep 2004 19:32 GMT

Brenda,

That is the problem with ASK fields. Unlike FILLIN
fields, they do not fire a prompt automatically. You
could set the bookmark restrictions with a FILLIN nested
in a SET field:

{ SET restrictions{ FILLIN "Are there any restrictions on
objects? (y/n)"} }

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melissa1005 - 11 Sep 2004 23:10 GMT

Also, I believe that you can use REF fields when you use ASK fields:
{ASK restrictions "Are there any restrictions on objects? (y/n)"}{IF {REF
restrictions} = "n" "There are no restrictions on the objects."
"Restrictions on the objects and powers of the Company are as set forth in
Schedule 'A' hereto."}

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Greg Maxey - 12 Sep 2004 01:19 GMT

Melissa,

Yes you can. BTW you don't really need the "REF" part, (i.e., {
restrictions } alone works equally well. I first suggested an ASK/REF
combination, but ASK fields will not automatically prompt when new documents
are created from templates containing ASK fields. FILLIN fields do, but
then they don't set a bookmark. A FILLIN nested in a SET field achieves
both :-)

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Brenda A. Reid - 13 Sep 2004 15:59 GMT

This has worked beautifully -- just wanted to say thanks to Grey and Melissa
who responded to my plea!

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