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Lighthouse - 18 Mar 2005 14:51 GMT
I'm looking for some guidance for creating a form-based template. I'm
sure that there are tutorials somewhere for this and I'm looking for a
pointer to those.

I have a document that I want to turn into a boilerplate template.
It's basically a lot of customer agreement stuff that remains the same
except for some items like Customer name, address, effective dates,
contract nos., etc.

What I'd like to do is save this boilerplate as a .dot file with an
AutoNew macro (I think) that displays a dialog box in which all this
info is entered by the user. When the "Submit" button is clicked, the
template should suck all that info into the new document.

I have done macros before, but never with a dialog box "frontend." I'm
not sure how to build the dialog box or how to get its input into my
document.

Would appreciate any help. Thanks.
Jean-Guy Marcil - 18 Mar 2005 15:36 GMT
Lighthouse was telling us:
Lighthouse nous racontait que :

> I'm looking for some guidance for creating a form-based template. I'm
> sure that there are tutorials somewhere for this and I'm looking for a
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> not sure how to build the dialog box or how to get its input into my
> document.

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

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

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Charles Kenyon - 18 Mar 2005 15:48 GMT
You may want to look into what Word calls an "online form." Check this in
help. For more about online forms, follow the links at
http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms or
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/FillinTheBlanks.htm especially Dian
Chapman's series of articles.

Online forms are not as flexible as userforms, but they are much easier to
set up.

Hope this helps,
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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
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