I want to automatically prompt users and then update with the response in
certain places within proposal documents.

For example, we have proposals that currently have CUSTOMER NAME appearing
throughout a document, or DATE appearing in footers. I want to automatically
ask the proposal users what the CUSTOMER NAME should be; then, once they
respond, to have Word automatically update their answer in all the places
that CUSTOMER NAME appears. This would be faster than using Find and Replace.
Similarly, I'd like the user to be asked to populate the DATE with the date
in the future they choose (not a field code date).

This will alleviate time for the many folks who use these documents on a
daily basis. More importantly, it will eliminate the potential of the user
forgetting to make updates in all the needed places. Since these are
proposals, these are important quality issues to us.

Does anyone have any idea on how to make this prompting be automatic and
the subsequent response automatically populate too?

Any guidance will be helpful.

See the article "How to create a Userform" at:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms/CreateAUserForm.htm


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Hope this helps.

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"cayce" wrote in message
...
I want to automatically prompt users and then update with the response in
certain places within proposal documents.

For example, we have proposals that currently have CUSTOMER NAME appearing
throughout a document, or DATE appearing in footers. I want to
automatically
ask the proposal users what the CUSTOMER NAME should be; then, once they
respond, to have Word automatically update their answer in all the places
that CUSTOMER NAME appears. This would be faster than using Find and
Replace.
Similarly, I'd like the user to be asked to populate the DATE with the
date
in the future they choose (not a field code date).

This will alleviate time for the many folks who use these documents on a
daily basis. More importantly, it will eliminate the potential of the user
forgetting to make updates in all the needed places. Since these are
proposals, these are important quality issues to us.

Does anyone have any idea on how to make this prompting be automatic and
the subsequent response automatically populate too?

Any guidance will be helpful.

See http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Repeating_Data.htm.

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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
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all may benefit.


cayce wrote:
I want to automatically prompt users and then update with the
response in certain places within proposal documents.

For example, we have proposals that currently have CUSTOMER NAME
appearing throughout a document, or DATE appearing in footers. I want
to automatically ask the proposal users what the CUSTOMER NAME should
be; then, once they respond, to have Word automatically update their
answer in all the places that CUSTOMER NAME appears. This would be
faster than using Find and Replace. Similarly, I'd like the user to
be asked to populate the DATE with the date in the future they choose
(not a field code date).

This will alleviate time for the many folks who use these documents
on a daily basis. More importantly, it will eliminate the potential
of the user forgetting to make updates in all the needed places.
Since these are proposals, these are important quality issues to us.

Does anyone have any idea on how to make this prompting be automatic
and the subsequent response automatically populate too?

Any guidance will be helpful.

Much the simplest way to do this is to use a UserForm to collect the data
and write it to custom document properties. Use DocProperty fields in the
document to insert the data from the properties.

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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.

"cayce" wrote in message
...
I want to automatically prompt users and then update with the response in
certain places within proposal documents.

For example, we have proposals that currently have CUSTOMER NAME appearing
throughout a document, or DATE appearing in footers. I want to
automatically
ask the proposal users what the CUSTOMER NAME should be; then, once they
respond, to have Word automatically update their answer in all the places
that CUSTOMER NAME appears. This would be faster than using Find and
Replace.
Similarly, I'd like the user to be asked to populate the DATE with the
date
in the future they choose (not a field code date).

This will alleviate time for the many folks who use these documents on a
daily basis. More importantly, it will eliminate the potential of the user
forgetting to make updates in all the needed places. Since these are
proposals, these are important quality issues to us.

Does anyone have any idea on how to make this prompting be automatic and
the subsequent response automatically populate too?

Any guidance will be helpful.

I'll give this a whirl and see where it takes me.

thanks.

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

See the article "How to create a Userform" at:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms/CreateAUserForm.htm


--
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

"cayce" wrote in message
...
I want to automatically prompt users and then update with the response in
certain places within proposal documents.

For example, we have proposals that currently have CUSTOMER NAME appearing
throughout a document, or DATE appearing in footers. I want to
automatically
ask the proposal users what the CUSTOMER NAME should be; then, once they
respond, to have Word automatically update their answer in all the places
that CUSTOMER NAME appears. This would be faster than using Find and
Replace.
Similarly, I'd like the user to be asked to populate the DATE with the
date
in the future they choose (not a field code date).

This will alleviate time for the many folks who use these documents on a
daily basis. More importantly, it will eliminate the potential of the user
forgetting to make updates in all the needed places. Since these are
proposals, these are important quality issues to us.

Does anyone have any idea on how to make this prompting be automatic and
the subsequent response automatically populate too?

Any guidance will be helpful.