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How do place a usable footer in a Word form?
I am trying to create a form in Word for my co-workers. At the end of each
page needs to be their name, title, distribution, and of course Page # of #. Usually this would just be an easy footer, unfortunately, I can't put form fields in a footer. How do I get this table with this information to repeat on every page and still allow the guys to fill it in? Is it even possible!? |
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How do place a usable footer in a Word form?
Put the fields to enter name, title, etc. in one place in the regular text,
and use Ref fields in the footer to repeat the entries. See http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Repeating_Data.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. LeahT wrote: I am trying to create a form in Word for my co-workers. At the end of each page needs to be their name, title, distribution, and of course Page # of #. Usually this would just be an easy footer, unfortunately, I can't put form fields in a footer. How do I get this table with this information to repeat on every page and still allow the guys to fill it in? Is it even possible!? |
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How do place a usable footer in a Word form?
Is this information appears somewhere in the form, use a StyleRef field to
pick it up; see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/StyleRef.htm. Page X of Y should be easy enough to put in the footer without such assistance. If the name, title, etc., doesn't appear in the form, perhaps you could create document properties and use DocProperty fields? This will require extra effort for updating, however. -- 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. "LeahT" wrote in message ... I am trying to create a form in Word for my co-workers. At the end of each page needs to be their name, title, distribution, and of course Page # of #. Usually this would just be an easy footer, unfortunately, I can't put form fields in a footer. How do I get this table with this information to repeat on every page and still allow the guys to fill it in? Is it even possible!? |
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How do place a usable footer in a Word form?
Unfortunately, it is a report type form and there is nowhere else in the form
that this information should be or even really could be without it being redundant. I need them to be able to type their name and title in the "footer", along with checking off who the completed form needs to be distributed to, as well as the page numbers. But I need this information on each and every page should the report go to multiple pages. Unfortunately, as I mentioned, I can't put the word form field or the check box fields in an actual footer. The page numbers are easy...it is the writable fields I am having trouble with. I am not even sure if this is actually possible to be honest. But I figured you all would know if it were! It seems a bit odd that I can't put fields in the header or footer...if I didn't want people changing something in the header or footer of a form, then ultimately I wouldn't put things in as field...and thus it wouldn't be changable once the form is locked. Bu tto automatically lock the entire header and footer when I lock the form...it is really a pain to try to get that information then to repeat to the next page should the document go beyond one page. "Jay Freedman" wrote: Put the fields to enter name, title, etc. in one place in the regular text, and use Ref fields in the footer to repeat the entries. See http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Repeating_Data.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. LeahT wrote: I am trying to create a form in Word for my co-workers. At the end of each page needs to be their name, title, distribution, and of course Page # of #. Usually this would just be an easy footer, unfortunately, I can't put form fields in a footer. How do I get this table with this information to repeat on every page and still allow the guys to fill it in? Is it even possible!? |
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How do place a usable footer in a Word form?
Also, the document properties can't be edited while the document is
protected for forms, as I recall. However, a UserForm triggered by an AutoNew macro would be good for gathering the info, unprotecting the document, updating the document properties, updating the fields, and then reprotecting the form. http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms/CreateAUserForm.htm http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/MixedDocProps.htm -- 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://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ 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. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Is this information appears somewhere in the form, use a StyleRef field to pick it up; see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/StyleRef.htm. Page X of Y should be easy enough to put in the footer without such assistance. If the name, title, etc., doesn't appear in the form, perhaps you could create document properties and use DocProperty fields? This will require extra effort for updating, however. -- 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. "LeahT" wrote in message ... I am trying to create a form in Word for my co-workers. At the end of each page needs to be their name, title, distribution, and of course Page # of #. Usually this would just be an easy footer, unfortunately, I can't put form fields in a footer. How do I get this table with this information to repeat on every page and still allow the guys to fill it in? Is it even possible!? |
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How do place a usable footer in a Word form?
Okay...I think I am getting this whole idea...I appologize Jay...I think you
and Suzanne both mentioned this UserForm. I guess I am not as swift with Word as I once thought...back to school with me!! I think the UserForm with the AutoNew Macro will be a perfect solution...just going to take a little work to create it...but once I have it down...I suspect it will work for all of these types of issues. We work off a TON of templates...this is going to really change the way we process things here! Thanks a bunch!! "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Also, the document properties can't be edited while the document is protected for forms, as I recall. However, a UserForm triggered by an AutoNew macro would be good for gathering the info, unprotecting the document, updating the document properties, updating the fields, and then reprotecting the form. http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms/CreateAUserForm.htm http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/MixedDocProps.htm -- 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://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ 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. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Is this information appears somewhere in the form, use a StyleRef field to pick it up; see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/StyleRef.htm. Page X of Y should be easy enough to put in the footer without such assistance. If the name, title, etc., doesn't appear in the form, perhaps you could create document properties and use DocProperty fields? This will require extra effort for updating, however. -- 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. "LeahT" wrote in message ... I am trying to create a form in Word for my co-workers. At the end of each page needs to be their name, title, distribution, and of course Page # of #. Usually this would just be an easy footer, unfortunately, I can't put form fields in a footer. How do I get this table with this information to repeat on every page and still allow the guys to fill it in? Is it even possible!? |
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How do place a usable footer in a Word form?
I would _strongly_ recommend putting the userform in a global template (not
normal.dot) rather than in all of your other templates. You can have and AutoNew in each template call it from the global, have it check on whether the new document is protected and gather your document properties. If you have template-specific properties to gather, you could probably pass those on as parameters from the calling template. (I try to centralize code, information, etc. as much as possible because I not only am doing all this coding, but trying to earn a living doing other stuff.) -- 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://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ 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. "LeahT" wrote in message ... Okay...I think I am getting this whole idea...I appologize Jay...I think you and Suzanne both mentioned this UserForm. I guess I am not as swift with Word as I once thought...back to school with me!! I think the UserForm with the AutoNew Macro will be a perfect solution...just going to take a little work to create it...but once I have it down...I suspect it will work for all of these types of issues. We work off a TON of templates...this is going to really change the way we process things here! Thanks a bunch!! "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Also, the document properties can't be edited while the document is protected for forms, as I recall. However, a UserForm triggered by an AutoNew macro would be good for gathering the info, unprotecting the document, updating the document properties, updating the fields, and then reprotecting the form. http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms/CreateAUserForm.htm http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/MixedDocProps.htm -- 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://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ 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. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Is this information appears somewhere in the form, use a StyleRef field to pick it up; see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/StyleRef.htm. Page X of Y should be easy enough to put in the footer without such assistance. If the name, title, etc., doesn't appear in the form, perhaps you could create document properties and use DocProperty fields? This will require extra effort for updating, however. -- 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. "LeahT" wrote in message ... I am trying to create a form in Word for my co-workers. At the end of each page needs to be their name, title, distribution, and of course Page # of #. Usually this would just be an easy footer, unfortunately, I can't put form fields in a footer. How do I get this table with this information to repeat on every page and still allow the guys to fill it in? Is it even possible!? |
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How do place a usable footer in a Word form?
I apologize if this sounds very elementary...but I am fairly new to the Macro
world...never really needed them before. In VB...when it asks for a Range...what am I putting there? I am really trying to get the AutoNew Macro thing to work! I typed in the: With Active Document .Bookmarks ("Text1").Range_ .InsertBefore TextBox1 etc etc etc Anyway...it gives me an error...I am assuming because I don't have the Range information. Sorry to bother...thanks for the help! Leah "Charles Kenyon" wrote: I would _strongly_ recommend putting the userform in a global template (not normal.dot) rather than in all of your other templates. You can have and AutoNew in each template call it from the global, have it check on whether the new document is protected and gather your document properties. If you have template-specific properties to gather, you could probably pass those on as parameters from the calling template. (I try to centralize code, information, etc. as much as possible because I not only am doing all this coding, but trying to earn a living doing other stuff.) -- 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://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ 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. "LeahT" wrote in message ... Okay...I think I am getting this whole idea...I appologize Jay...I think you and Suzanne both mentioned this UserForm. I guess I am not as swift with Word as I once thought...back to school with me!! I think the UserForm with the AutoNew Macro will be a perfect solution...just going to take a little work to create it...but once I have it down...I suspect it will work for all of these types of issues. We work off a TON of templates...this is going to really change the way we process things here! Thanks a bunch!! "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Also, the document properties can't be edited while the document is protected for forms, as I recall. However, a UserForm triggered by an AutoNew macro would be good for gathering the info, unprotecting the document, updating the document properties, updating the fields, and then reprotecting the form. http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms/CreateAUserForm.htm http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/MixedDocProps.htm -- 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://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ 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. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Is this information appears somewhere in the form, use a StyleRef field to pick it up; see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/StyleRef.htm. Page X of Y should be easy enough to put in the footer without such assistance. If the name, title, etc., doesn't appear in the form, perhaps you could create document properties and use DocProperty fields? This will require extra effort for updating, however. -- 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. "LeahT" wrote in message ... I am trying to create a form in Word for my co-workers. At the end of each page needs to be their name, title, distribution, and of course Page # of #. Usually this would just be an easy footer, unfortunately, I can't put form fields in a footer. How do I get this table with this information to repeat on every page and still allow the guys to fill it in? Is it even possible!? |
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How do place a usable footer in a Word form?
Sorry, you got caught by something we've been meaning to fix in that
article for a long time. It often catches people who type the code instead of copying and pasting it... The underscore after the word Range needs a space before it. The underscore is the "continuation character" that tells VBA that the statement continues onto the next line, but it isn't recognized as such if there's no space before it. There's a separate article at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...tEndOfLine.htm to explain this, but people rarely see that one until we point it out. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 16:47:01 -0700, LeahT wrote: I apologize if this sounds very elementary...but I am fairly new to the Macro world...never really needed them before. In VB...when it asks for a Range...what am I putting there? I am really trying to get the AutoNew Macro thing to work! I typed in the: With Active Document .Bookmarks ("Text1").Range_ .InsertBefore TextBox1 etc etc etc Anyway...it gives me an error...I am assuming because I don't have the Range information. Sorry to bother...thanks for the help! Leah |
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