How do you set up numerous prompts in MS Word

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Batman in Office - 12 Jan 2006 03:10 GMT

In Office 2000, I used to be able to set up prompts. So that when a user
opens the document it gives them numerous prompts like "What is your name?".
And the information they entered into the prompt would be written into the
document. I found that it was an easy process for my users to fill out
commonly used templates, step-by-step. It used to be related with mail merge;
although, there was never any data table.

However, after we updated to Office 2003, I was unable to use the old tools
as wizards have replaced them and I cannot seem to find a workaround on
Office Online. The new mail merge requires data table, so I cannot "cheat"
that way.

How do you create multiple prompts which are created each time one loads the
document.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 12 Jan 2006 05:05 GMT

You were probably using Ask or Fill-in fields which you would insert into a
template/document from the Insert>Field menu item.

A better way though is to use a userform.

See the article "How to create a Userform" at:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms/CreateAUserForm.htm

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

> In Office 2000, I used to be able to set up prompts. So that when a user
> opens the document it gives them numerous prompts like "What is your
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> document.

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