autofill text from Word Master Document

[Darla]

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...

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Look into mail merge.
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[Graham Mayor]

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.

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