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MS Office Forum / Word / Mailmerge and Fax / November 2004keyboard merge
Does Word have a merge to keyboard function?  SignatureSherie Hi =?Utf-8?B?U2hlcmll?=, > Does Word have a merge to keyboard function? Not exactly. You're coming from a WordPerfect background, I take it? The closest equivalent is to use ASK and/or FILLIN fields to generate prompts. You type the information into each prompt, and it's displayed in the document. Another low-tech approach is to insert MacroButton fields to display a "Click here" type (or any other text) of prompt where you want users to enter information. With F11 they can jump from field to field; the field is selected, all the user needs to do is type. Or they can navigate with the mouse. Form fields are another possibility. Most user-friendly is to set up a UserForm and a macro to fill in the data. Which approach sounds most like it would meet your needs? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) The MacroButton approach might work. Form fields does not work for my application. Thanks. > Hi =?Utf-8?B?U2hlcmll?=, > [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail > :-) Hi =?Utf-8?B?U2hlcmll?=, > The MacroButton approach might work. OK, this is fairly easy to set up. Position the cursor where the user should make an entry. Go to Insert/Field and select the MacroButton field from the list. I don't know which version of Word you have; if it's 2002 or 2003, click the "Field Options" button. Type in a name for a macro that does NOT exist; most often, we use the term: NoMacro Now type in the prompt text. The field code should look like this: MACROBUTTON NoMacro Enter the xyz info here Click OK. If you need to change the prompt, it will be better to press Alt+F9 to work directly in the field codes, rather than using right-click, "Edit field". This is because the dialog box will want to have a valid macro name and if it can't find one, will substitute the macro name with whatever it has at the top of its list. Nasty... Alt+F9 again will turn off the field codes. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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