[Matt]

I'm creating a series of forms. Some of the text that a user will fill in
using a content control will be repeated two or three times throughout the
course of the document. I thought it would be easy enough to insert a field
with the equivalent of a "REF" code to accomplish this, but it turns out that
you can't "REF" to content controls like I expected.

Any advice as to how I might get this done?

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

I am not really sure what you mean by Content Controls, but whatever they
are, you can probably use code to create document variables that contain the
content of the controls and the content of the document variables can be
displayed in the document by the use of DOCVARIABLE fields

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Matt" wrote in message
...
I'm creating a series of forms. Some of the text that a user will fill in
using a content control will be repeated two or three times throughout the
course of the document. I thought it would be easy enough to insert a
field
with the equivalent of a "REF" code to accomplish this, but it turns out
that
you can't "REF" to content controls like I expected.

Any advice as to how I might get this done?

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Content controls are new in Word 2007; they are the latest whizbang way to
create forms (much better than form fields).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
...
I am not really sure what you mean by Content Controls, but whatever they
are, you can probably use code to create document variables that contain
the
content of the controls and the content of the document variables can be
displayed in the document by the use of DOCVARIABLE fields

--
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

"Matt" wrote in message
...
I'm creating a series of forms. Some of the text that a user will fill
in
using a content control will be repeated two or three times throughout
the
course of the document. I thought it would be easy enough to insert a
field
with the equivalent of a "REF" code to accomplish this, but it turns out
that
you can't "REF" to content controls like I expected.

Any advice as to how I might get this done?

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...ntent+controls should point
you in some helpful directions. In particular,
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905482.aspx has links to tutorials
by Brian Jones that might be helpful.

--
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.

"Matt" wrote in message
...
I'm creating a series of forms. Some of the text that a user will fill in
using a content control will be repeated two or three times throughout the
course of the document. I thought it would be easy enough to insert a
field
with the equivalent of a "REF" code to accomplish this, but it turns out
that
you can't "REF" to content controls like I expected.

Any advice as to how I might get this done?