FILLIN field within INCLUDETEXT - is it possible?

[helbel78]

I work for the IT dept in a legal firm and am trying to introduce INCLUDETEXT
statements into our precedent bank so that we can standardise the top and
tail of our letters.

We have a number of precedents that require a FILLIN for the recipient
name/address/ref/salutation etc but it seems that FILLINs don't work within
INCLUDETEXT in that they loop several times.

A lock switch \! doesn't prevent the looping.

Am I doing something wrong?

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

helbel78 was telling us:
helbel78 nous racontait que :

I work for the IT dept in a legal firm and am trying to introduce
INCLUDETEXT statements into our precedent bank so that we can
standardise the top and tail of our letters.

We have a number of precedents that require a FILLIN for the recipient
name/address/ref/salutation etc but it seems that FILLINs don't work
within INCLUDETEXT in that they loop several times.

A lock switch \! doesn't prevent the looping.

Am I doing something wrong?

Instead of FILLIN, you could use bookmarks in the INCLUDETEXT, use a
userform to ask the user to write the needed info and then insert the text
from the userform into the bookmarks.

It would be neater because the user would not have repetitive Inputboxes
appear on the screen, just the one with all the spaces to write the text,
and you cold even add error checking to make sure the user types accepted
stuff (i.e. the date in the right format, numbers where required, etc.)

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Salut!
_______________________________________
Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
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Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org

 

[helbel78]

Thanks this was a very helpful suggestion - we're going to take up the idea!

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

helbel78 was telling us:
helbel78 nous racontait que :

Thanks this was a very helpful suggestion - we're going to take up
the idea!

You're welcome.... better late than never I guess! ;-)

--
Salut!
_______________________________________
Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
(e-mail address removed)
Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org

 

[helbel78]

Apologies for the delay (bad manners - blush) - this is one of those projects
that I'm avoiding!