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MS Office Forum / Word / Programming / September 2005autofill text from Word Master Document
I've got over a dozen forms that must be completed for each job we do and a substantial amount of the information is repetitious and can be taken from a master Word document (within a table) - I began by researching the best possible way to have Word autofill these forms and came up with - edit copy (from master) to edit - paste special - formatted text (rtf) - to destination form (within a table). I thought I was meticulous in setting this up, but unfortunately it doesn't work and no matter what I try I can't get these forms to autofill. I'm trying to avoid mistakes (and save time) during the transfer of information - details are critical...HELP, please... Look into mail merge.  SignatureCharles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. > I've got over a dozen forms that must be completed for each job we do and > a [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > the > transfer of information - details are critical...HELP, please... Mail merge as suggested by Charles would be one way, or you could create a document template containing all the forms and use the method suggested at http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Repeating_Data.htm to fill the repetitive data. You could even use includetext fields in your template to call bookmarked paragraphs from your 'master document' so save you retyping. Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> > I've got over a dozen forms that must be completed for each job we do > and a substantial amount of the information is repetitious and can be [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > autofill. I'm trying to avoid mistakes (and save time) during the > transfer of information - details are critical...HELP, please...
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