Workgroup Templates

[Sprinks]

We've set up some general workgroup templates for our department, and they
work great. We inserted a field for UserName such that each user's name is
automatically filled in. We'd also like to insert an automatic graphic of
the user's signature.

Can anyone tell me how to execute this?

Thanks for all help.

Sprinks

 

[Jay Freedman]

We've set up some general workgroup templates for our department, and
they work great. We inserted a field for UserName such that each
user's name is automatically filled in. We'd also like to insert an
automatic graphic of the user's signature.

Can anyone tell me how to execute this?

Thanks for all help.

Sprinks

For each user in the department, make an AutoText entry in each template.
The body of the entry is the graphic of the signature, and the name of the
entry is that person's UserName, exactly as it appears in the result of the
UserName field. See http://www.word.mvps.org/faqs/customization/AutoText.htm
for assistance.

Where you want the signature to appear, insert a nested field like this:

{AUTOTEXT {USERNAME}}

You'll need to insert the braces by pressing Ctrl+F9, *not* the { and }
characters on the keyboard.

When the field is updated, the inner field will evaluate to the user's name,
and that will be used by the outer field to select the correct AutoText
entry.

 

[Sprinks]

Thanks, Jay. I look forward to implementing it tomorrow.

Best regards.
Sprinks