In Word 2003, the data form button is in the Database toolbar. If your
cursor is in a table, clicking this button will convert each column to a data
field for entry in the dialog box. After completing, the data will be added
in rows to the table. This button can also be used to edit tables.
But, I too would like to know how to set up a template to either have a
button in the document that calls this functionality or have it pop up
automatically when the user reaches that part of the document.
"Pia" wrote:
Ok, thanks for your help.
"Cindy M." wrote:
Hi ?B?UGlh?=,
Yeah, that sounds a lot like it, but I definitely used the data form button.
The box to input information didn't just automatically pop up when I went
into the form.
Well, you definitely had something that's not part of Word-out-of-the-box. The
only "data form" button in Word is for entering new records in pre-Word 2000
mail merge data sources (mainly, Word tables). If you're still with the same
company and your old profile or machine is still around, I suggest you sit down
with someone in IT and figure out what it was so that you can transfer it to
your current profile.
Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org
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