I've known people to get double prompts when they have a print option set to
update fields at printing.
See the ASK and FILL-IN field tutorial at
http://addbalance.com/word/download.htm.
You may want to consider using 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/Customizat...nTheBlanks.htm especially Dian
Chapman's series of articles. You may also want to look at
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...nesInForms.htm.
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
See also the MVP FAQ:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"Deb McLellan" wrote in message
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Sorry - I now realize that Word 2002 and Word XP are the same thing. I
don't know why it occurred to me to check on that AFTER I posted the
query, but at least I was able to see the error of my ways first!!!
In any event, I'm creating the templates and prompts with no problem here
at home, but when I take them to the office, I get the double prompts. I
am going to create it from scratch at the office and see if I have the
same problem
Deb
"Deb McLellan" wrote in message
...
I have created a basic template in Word (2002). It is a letter template
with fill-in fields for file number, addressees, etc.,
I am able to complete creation of the template and save it in my user
template folder. However, when I run the template (File|New) the prompts
are presented twice. It runs through all of the fill-in fields and I
fill them in but when I get to the last one, it seems to circle back and
asks the first one again. At first I thought the problem was my macro,
but the same thing happens when I run the template without using the
macro.
I'm puzzled because I created a few test templates on another computer
running Word XP, and everything was fine, so I wonder if its my technique
or if there is something about the newer version of Word.
Deb