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autofill data in Word document table from Word document table
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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Darla" wrote in message ... 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... |
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