Forms in Word

[dredrunde]

I use Word XP. Sometime in the past, I saw a form in Word that used dialog
boxes to ask the user to fill in fields and then entered the results into the
document. I would like to figure out how to do that so fill in bookmark
values in a template I have made.
When others try to use my template, they almost always forget to do it
properly and the bookmark is either deleted or completed properly. The
fields later (which use these bookmark values) are messed up.

Can anyone help me with this?

 

[Charles Kenyon]

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

Yes. Bookmarks are fragile.
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/WorkWithBookmarks.htm
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/InsertingTextAtBookmark.htm

Otherwise, you can use 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. At least one of these articles gets into
UserForms as well; they can be used together.

Hope this helps,
--
Charles 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




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[Jay Freedman]

See these articles:

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms/CreateAUserForm.htm
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/InsertingTextAtBookmark.htm

Creating a single userform (custom dialog) to gather all the user's
information at once is more friendly than popping up a series of boxes
that each gets one piece of information. Additional code in the
userform can check the input so the dialog doesn't dump incorrect data
into the bookmarks.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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