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MS Office Forum / Word / Programming / April 2007creating fields that repeat in document
I often work with long documents (sometimes 100-200+ pages). Many times, I will have information that stays the same in difference sections of the document. For example, a square footage or acreage, name, etc... How can I create a field that once this information is typed into one of the fields, everywhere that field is displayed in the document will automatically update. For example, if I put a square footage of a building on the summary page, that same piece of information is also displayed other places in the document. How can I make it so that if I change one, they are all updated. A friend told me that this was relatively easy to setup. Is it possible? >I often work with long documents (sometimes 100-200+ pages). Many times, I > will have information that stays the same in difference sections of the [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > updated. > A friend told me that this was relatively easy to setup. Is it possible? Hi Brian There are a number of approaches. One simple one is to go to File, Properties, click the Custom tab, and add a new custom property. Then wherever you want to contents of the property to be repeated, place a DOCPROPERTY field in the document pointing to the custom property. To update the document, simply change the contents of the property in the properties dialog and then update all fields in the document by pressing Ctrl-A and then F9.  SignatureRegards Jonathan West - Word MVP www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk Please reply to the newsgroup Keep your VBA code safe, sign the ClassicVB petition www.classicvb.org See http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Repeating_Data.htm Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> > I often work with long documents (sometimes 100-200+ pages). Many > times, I will have information that stays the same in difference [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > I make it so that if I change one, they are all updated. A friend > told me that this was relatively easy to setup. Is it possible? |
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