typing a series of characters and having them appear elsewhere in the document

[dave]

I would like to type a series of characters, in a specific
place in a document, and have that same series of
characters appear in another place(s) in the document. I
would also like to have any changes, wherever they are
made, change all places specified.

For example if I type the following characters in the
following place: "(&klu^%mno)"


that string of characters will appear


here "(&klu^%mno)" in the document (or anywhere I want to
place them.

 

[Jezebel]

That's what bookmarks are for.

 

[Graham Mayor]

To elaborate on Jezebel's answer, you can use a cross reference from a
bookmarked entry to other places in the document. A REF field will place the
content of a bookmark. If the characters are to be changed from time to time
ie you will be saving the document as a template, then a more robust method
of inserting the variable text, without deleting the bookmark, would be
required. I would suggest the use of an ask field for a single entry and a
user form or form fields for multiple entries.

Ask field do not update automatically when you create a document from a
template, so you would need an autonew macro in the *document* template to
force the update. If you need help with that use the example code at
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm but rename the macro 'autonew'.


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