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Automating document using custom properties
Is it possible to use a custom property and fields as a switch to insert one
autotext entry or another? eg a custom property called "LatePayment". If the value is "Yes" then it should insert the paragraph stored inthe autoext entry called "Late" but if the value is "No" then it should insert the autotext entry called "OnTime". If it is not possible, what is the easiest way to achieve a similar sort of effect which doesn't involve too much programming. it would be good if the method allowed lots of these types of things in the same document but did not necessitate the user making all the choices every time if they only wanted to change one of them? I'm not entirely sure what version(s) of Word this will be required for but it might be 97, 2000 or 2003, so if the method only works on the later versions could you mention that as well. Thanks for any help Eric |
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Automating document using custom properties
Provided you remember to update the fields when you make a change to the
Document Property then { IF { DOCPROPERTY LatePayment \*Upper} = "YES" "{ Autotext Late }" "{ Autotext OnTime }" } should work -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org EricK wrote: Is it possible to use a custom property and fields as a switch to insert one autotext entry or another? eg a custom property called "LatePayment". If the value is "Yes" then it should insert the paragraph stored inthe autoext entry called "Late" but if the value is "No" then it should insert the autotext entry called "OnTime". If it is not possible, what is the easiest way to achieve a similar sort of effect which doesn't involve too much programming. it would be good if the method allowed lots of these types of things in the same document but did not necessitate the user making all the choices every time if they only wanted to change one of them? I'm not entirely sure what version(s) of Word this will be required for but it might be 97, 2000 or 2003, so if the method only works on the later versions could you mention that as well. Thanks for any help Eric |
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Automating document using custom properties
Thanks!
I thought there must be an easy way to do it but I couldn't work it out. Now why couldn't I find about DOCPROPERTY when I searched in the help or online?! Eric "Graham Mayor" wrote: Provided you remember to update the fields when you make a change to the Document Property then { IF { DOCPROPERTY LatePayment \*Upper} = "YES" "{ Autotext Late }" "{ Autotext OnTime }" } should work -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org EricK wrote: Is it possible to use a custom property and fields as a switch to insert one autotext entry or another? eg a custom property called "LatePayment". If the value is "Yes" then it should insert the paragraph stored inthe autoext entry called "Late" but if the value is "No" then it should insert the autotext entry called "OnTime". If it is not possible, what is the easiest way to achieve a similar sort of effect which doesn't involve too much programming. it would be good if the method allowed lots of these types of things in the same document but did not necessitate the user making all the choices every time if they only wanted to change one of them? I'm not entirely sure what version(s) of Word this will be required for but it might be 97, 2000 or 2003, so if the method only works on the later versions could you mention that as well. Thanks for any help Eric |
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Automating document using custom properties
Online help certainly has an article on this:
Field codes: DocProperty field http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/wo...CH061047251033 -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "EricK" wrote in message news  Thanks! I thought there must be an easy way to do it but I couldn't work it out. Now why couldn't I find about DOCPROPERTY when I searched in the help or online?! Eric "Graham Mayor" wrote: Provided you remember to update the fields when you make a change to the Document Property then { IF { DOCPROPERTY LatePayment \*Upper} = "YES" "{ Autotext Late }" "{ Autotext OnTime }" } should work -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org EricK wrote: Is it possible to use a custom property and fields as a switch to insert one autotext entry or another? eg a custom property called "LatePayment". If the value is "Yes" then it should insert the paragraph stored inthe autoext entry called "Late" but if the value is "No" then it should insert the autotext entry called "OnTime". If it is not possible, what is the easiest way to achieve a similar sort of effect which doesn't involve too much programming. it would be good if the method allowed lots of these types of things in the same document but did not necessitate the user making all the choices every time if they only wanted to change one of them? I'm not entirely sure what version(s) of Word this will be required for but it might be 97, 2000 or 2003, so if the method only works on the later versions could you mention that as well. Thanks for any help Eric |
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What I meant was when I did searches for things like "using properties" or
"choosing options based on properties" and so on and so on, none of the pages which came up mentioned DOCPROPERTY. The Office Help system is very useful to answer questions like "what does this function do?" but most questions are of the form "How do I do this?" and itoften doesn't give me what I want - but that may be because I word my questions wrong. Eric "Stefan Blom" wrote: Online help certainly has an article on this: Field codes: DocProperty field http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/wo...CH061047251033 -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "EricK" wrote in message news Thanks! I thought there must be an easy way to do it but I couldn't work it out. Now why couldn't I find about DOCPROPERTY when I searched in the help or online?! Eric "Graham Mayor" wrote: Provided you remember to update the fields when you make a change to the Document Property then { IF { DOCPROPERTY LatePayment \*Upper} = "YES" "{ Autotext Late }" "{ Autotext OnTime }" } should work -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org EricK wrote: Is it possible to use a custom property and fields as a switch to insert one autotext entry or another? eg a custom property called "LatePayment". If the value is "Yes" then it should insert the paragraph stored inthe autoext entry called "Late" but if the value is "No" then it should insert the autotext entry called "OnTime". If it is not possible, what is the easiest way to achieve a similar sort of effect which doesn't involve too much programming. it would be good if the method allowed lots of these types of things in the same document but did not necessitate the user making all the choices every time if they only wanted to change one of them? I'm not entirely sure what version(s) of Word this will be required for but it might be 97, 2000 or 2003, so if the method only works on the later versions could you mention that as well. Thanks for any help Eric |
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Indeed, if you don't know the technical term, Help is tricky to use. But
that's what this forum is for! :-) -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "EricK" wrote in message ... What I meant was when I did searches for things like "using properties" or "choosing options based on properties" and so on and so on, none of the pages which came up mentioned DOCPROPERTY. The Office Help system is very useful to answer questions like "what does this function do?" but most questions are of the form "How do I do this?" and itoften doesn't give me what I want - but that may be because I word my questions wrong. Eric "Stefan Blom" wrote: Online help certainly has an article on this: Field codes: DocProperty field http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/wo...CH061047251033 -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "EricK" wrote in message news Thanks! I thought there must be an easy way to do it but I couldn't work it out. Now why couldn't I find about DOCPROPERTY when I searched in the help or online?! Eric "Graham Mayor" wrote: Provided you remember to update the fields when you make a change to the Document Property then { IF { DOCPROPERTY LatePayment \*Upper} = "YES" "{ Autotext Late }" "{ Autotext OnTime }" } should work -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org EricK wrote: Is it possible to use a custom property and fields as a switch to insert one autotext entry or another? eg a custom property called "LatePayment". If the value is "Yes" then it should insert the paragraph stored inthe autoext entry called "Late" but if the value is "No" then it should insert the autotext entry called "OnTime". If it is not possible, what is the easiest way to achieve a similar sort of effect which doesn't involve too much programming. it would be good if the method allowed lots of these types of things in the same document but did not necessitate the user making all the choices every time if they only wanted to change one of them? I'm not entirely sure what version(s) of Word this will be required for but it might be 97, 2000 or 2003, so if the method only works on the later versions could you mention that as well. Thanks for any help Eric |
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