I've got over a dozen forms that must be completed for each job we do and a
substantial amount of the information is repetitious and can be taken from a
master Word document (within a table) - I began by researching the best
possible way to have Word autofill these forms and came up with - edit copy
(from master) to edit - paste special - formatted text (rtf) - to destination
form (within a table). I thought I was meticulous in setting this up, but
unfortunately it doesn't work and no matter what I try I can't get these
forms to autofill. I'm trying to avoid mistakes (and save time) during the
transfer of information - details are critical...HELP, please...

Darla,

You could create a template for each form. In the templates you could use
an INCLUDETEXT field that references a cell in the table of the "master
document." See:
http://daiya.mvps.org/includetext.htm
for tips using includetext fields.


--
Greg Maxey/Word MVP
See:
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm
For some helpful tips using Word.

Darla wrote:
I've got over a dozen forms that must be completed for each job we do
and a substantial amount of the information is repetitious and can be
taken from a master Word document (within a table) - I began by
researching the best possible way to have Word autofill these forms
and came up with - edit copy (from master) to edit - paste special -
formatted text (rtf) - to destination form (within a table). I
thought I was meticulous in setting this up, but unfortunately it
doesn't work and no matter what I try I can't get these forms to
autofill. I'm trying to avoid mistakes (and save time) during the
transfer of information - details are critical...HELP, please...

Thank you Greg, it appears to be a little out of my league, but I'm going to
give it a try. Have a great day.

"Greg Maxey" wrote:

Darla,

You could create a template for each form. In the templates you could use
an INCLUDETEXT field that references a cell in the table of the "master
document." See:
http://daiya.mvps.org/includetext.htm
for tips using includetext fields.


--
Greg Maxey/Word MVP
See:
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm
For some helpful tips using Word.

Darla wrote:
I've got over a dozen forms that must be completed for each job we do
and a substantial amount of the information is repetitious and can be
taken from a master Word document (within a table) - I began by
researching the best possible way to have Word autofill these forms
and came up with - edit copy (from master) to edit - paste special -
formatted text (rtf) - to destination form (within a table). I
thought I was meticulous in setting this up, but unfortunately it
doesn't work and no matter what I try I can't get these forms to
autofill. I'm trying to avoid mistakes (and save time) during the
transfer of information - details are critical...HELP, please...

Take a look at Mail Merge. It is designed to pull data from tables and put
it in the right place in documents.
--
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://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Darla" wrote in message
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I've got over a dozen forms that must be completed for each job we do and
a
substantial amount of the information is repetitious and can be taken from
a
master Word document (within a table) - I began by researching the best
possible way to have Word autofill these forms and came up with - edit
copy
(from master) to edit - paste special - formatted text (rtf) - to
destination
form (within a table). I thought I was meticulous in setting this up, but
unfortunately it doesn't work and no matter what I try I can't get these
forms to autofill. I'm trying to avoid mistakes (and save time) during
the
transfer of information - details are critical...HELP, please...