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G venkatesh - 30 Jan 2008 18:00 GMT

MS office Word 2003. Building and automating a form with fields and form
fields.

I have a Text Form fields, titled "First_Name" and "Last_Name" on p.1 that
must be replicated on following pages. I was able to set the field to
calculate on exit, and then insert bookmark fields on following pages that
would pick up the field data - as long as they're in the body of the doc.

Instead, I want a field in the header (which begins on p.2) to pick up this
data in order to eliminate layout errors as the form grows in length.

I tried using field and referencing form field by assigning REF in the
header, but could not success.

Can I know how else to do this?

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Jay Freedman - 31 Jan 2008 03:08 GMT

>MS office Word 2003. Building and automating a form with fields and form
>fields.
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>Can I know how else to do this?

Define a character style to apply to the fields and to nothing else in the
document -- or, if the fields are in different paragraphs, define a separate
character style for each field. The formatting can be the same as the
surrounding text, or whatever you want.

In the header, insert a StyleRef field (or one StyleRef field for each character
style).

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Jay Freedman
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