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Updating text from one textbox to another-How?
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Is there some way to automatically update text written in one textbox to another? Within the same document I wish to create a number of individual text boxes such that when I type in any one of them the same text will also be automatically placed in a combined 'master' textbox. I do this now by copying and pasting.I found out how to make text "spill over" from one textbox to another (when the first one is full) but this is not what I want. Thanks Sam |
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See http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Repeating_Data.htm, but note that you may
require a table or frame rather than a text box to do this. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Sam Lewis" wrote in message ... Hi Is there some way to automatically update text written in one textbox to another? Within the same document I wish to create a number of individual text boxes such that when I type in any one of them the same text will also be automatically placed in a combined 'master' textbox. I do this now by copying and pasting.I found out how to make text "spill over" from one textbox to another (when the first one is full) but this is not what I want. Thanks Sam |
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Yes thanks that works using field codes, Text form field with{REF
name_of_field}placed throughout document.It works within frames but not textboxes.Basically what is a frame and how does it differ to a text box (they look very similar) Thanks Sam "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... See http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Repeating_Data.htm, but note that you may require a table or frame rather than a text box to do this. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Sam Lewis" wrote in message ... Hi Is there some way to automatically update text written in one textbox to another? Within the same document I wish to create a number of individual text boxes such that when I type in any one of them the same text will also be automatically placed in a combined 'master' textbox. I do this now by copying and pasting.I found out how to make text "spill over" from one textbox to another (when the first one is full) but this is not what I want. Thanks Sam |
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Text boxes are "drawing objects" (they're in the drawing layer), so Word
can't "see" any text that is in them. Frames, although they are in the text layer, can have text wrapped around them (but not behind or in front of them). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Sam Lewis" wrote in message ... Yes thanks that works using field codes, Text form field with{REF name_of_field}placed throughout document.It works within frames but not textboxes.Basically what is a frame and how does it differ to a text box (they look very similar) Thanks Sam "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... See http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Repeating_Data.htm, but note that you may require a table or frame rather than a text box to do this. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Sam Lewis" wrote in message ... Hi Is there some way to automatically update text written in one textbox to another? Within the same document I wish to create a number of individual text boxes such that when I type in any one of them the same text will also be automatically placed in a combined 'master' textbox. I do this now by copying and pasting.I found out how to make text "spill over" from one textbox to another (when the first one is full) but this is not what I want. Thanks Sam |
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