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Form Fields, Protect Form, Mail Merge, Templates vs Documents
Help for completely self-trained user:
I've just started a new job and I'm having difficulty with their documents being inefficient, but I don't know enough yet about the tools to be able to fix them. So, I have some simple questions, and I'd appreciate some feedback on our current or my proposed procedures. Right now our verifiers work from a protected form with form fields, but occasionally they need to change some of the parts that are protected (adding an additional category to a field), so the "protect" ends up being toggled on and off several times. This might be fine. What the verifiers currently do is to take the partial information that we receive about the clients, type it out into one of the forms, cut and paste it into two or more additional forms, save them each as unique documents, then work from these documents while they are on the phone to the client. What I'd like to do is fill in each of those forms simultaneously with the supplied information before assigning them to the verifiers. I think I need to use mail merge to do this, and I've figured out the basic steps on how to do it. After the merge is complete, I'd like them to continue to fill out the form while on the phone. I'm assuming it makes sense to have the merged document come out with form fields still on it and the document still protected so that the verifiers don't inadvertantly change the form. I've already gotten some help about how to do this, but it won't make sense to me until after I study it for a while. Lastly, and, this seems like a stupid question to me, but I'm also unsure about the difference between a template and a document, and whether there is a difference about how they behave. Isn't a template just a partially complete document? |
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While I have given you some information in response to your posts in the
mailmerge fields newsgroup, possibly what you should really be using is a userform. See the article "How to create a Userform" at: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms/CreateAUserForm.htm or, see the following pages of fellow MVP Greg Maxey's website : http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Create_and...a_UserForm.htm http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Populate_UserForm_ListBox.htm and for better record keeping, see the last of the following series of articles http://www.mousetrax.com/techpage.html#autoforms Please Fill Out This Form Part 1: Create professional looking forms in Word http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=22 Part 2: Adding Automation to your Word forms. http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=46 Part 3: Learn more VBA (macros) to automate your forms. http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=119 Part 4: Use custom dialog boxes in your Word forms http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=127 Part 5: Connect your AutoForm to a database to save input time and keep better records! http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=136 -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "QA info" QA wrote in message ... Help for completely self-trained user: I've just started a new job and I'm having difficulty with their documents being inefficient, but I don't know enough yet about the tools to be able to fix them. So, I have some simple questions, and I'd appreciate some feedback on our current or my proposed procedures. Right now our verifiers work from a protected form with form fields, but occasionally they need to change some of the parts that are protected (adding an additional category to a field), so the "protect" ends up being toggled on and off several times. This might be fine. What the verifiers currently do is to take the partial information that we receive about the clients, type it out into one of the forms, cut and paste it into two or more additional forms, save them each as unique documents, then work from these documents while they are on the phone to the client. What I'd like to do is fill in each of those forms simultaneously with the supplied information before assigning them to the verifiers. I think I need to use mail merge to do this, and I've figured out the basic steps on how to do it. After the merge is complete, I'd like them to continue to fill out the form while on the phone. I'm assuming it makes sense to have the merged document come out with form fields still on it and the document still protected so that the verifiers don't inadvertantly change the form. I've already gotten some help about how to do this, but it won't make sense to me until after I study it for a while. Lastly, and, this seems like a stupid question to me, but I'm also unsure about the difference between a template and a document, and whether there is a difference about how they behave. Isn't a template just a partially complete document? |
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Thanks Doug! I'm pretty sure that's what I'm after. I have a lot of reading
and learning to do! "Doug Robbins - Word MVP on news.microsof" wrote: While I have given you some information in response to your posts in the mailmerge fields newsgroup, possibly what you should really be using is a userform. See the article "How to create a Userform" at: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms/CreateAUserForm.htm or, see the following pages of fellow MVP Greg Maxey's website : http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Create_and...a_UserForm.htm http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Populate_UserForm_ListBox.htm and for better record keeping, see the last of the following series of articles http://www.mousetrax.com/techpage.html#autoforms Please Fill Out This Form Part 1: Create professional looking forms in Word http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=22 Part 2: Adding Automation to your Word forms. http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=46 Part 3: Learn more VBA (macros) to automate your forms. http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=119 Part 4: Use custom dialog boxes in your Word forms http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=127 Part 5: Connect your AutoForm to a database to save input time and keep better records! http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=136 -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "QA info" QA wrote in message ... Help for completely self-trained user: I've just started a new job and I'm having difficulty with their documents being inefficient, but I don't know enough yet about the tools to be able to fix them. So, I have some simple questions, and I'd appreciate some feedback on our current or my proposed procedures. Right now our verifiers work from a protected form with form fields, but occasionally they need to change some of the parts that are protected (adding an additional category to a field), so the "protect" ends up being toggled on and off several times. This might be fine. What the verifiers currently do is to take the partial information that we receive about the clients, type it out into one of the forms, cut and paste it into two or more additional forms, save them each as unique documents, then work from these documents while they are on the phone to the client. What I'd like to do is fill in each of those forms simultaneously with the supplied information before assigning them to the verifiers. I think I need to use mail merge to do this, and I've figured out the basic steps on how to do it. After the merge is complete, I'd like them to continue to fill out the form while on the phone. I'm assuming it makes sense to have the merged document come out with form fields still on it and the document still protected so that the verifiers don't inadvertantly change the form. I've already gotten some help about how to do this, but it won't make sense to me until after I study it for a while. Lastly, and, this seems like a stupid question to me, but I'm also unsure about the difference between a template and a document, and whether there is a difference about how they behave. Isn't a template just a partially complete document? |
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