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Create a new Template
Over the years we have altered many of the available templates to do what we
have needed, but now we have need of a template that is unlike any we have been able to find. Would anyone know where we might look to find a description of the many special characters used in template building and how they work? Oh, we are in Word 97. All ideas, comments, and suggestions about this will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, K. |
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I'm not sure what you mean by "special characters", but these two links
should get you started; http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart1.htm http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart2.htm Someone will be glad to help if you have any specific queations. -- HTH |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "K" wrote in message ... Over the years we have altered many of the available templates to do what we have needed, but now we have need of a template that is unlike any we have been able to find. Would anyone know where we might look to find a description of the many special characters used in template building and how they work? Oh, we are in Word 97. All ideas, comments, and suggestions about this will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, K. |
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Thanks Cybertaz for considering and answering my post. During our latest
customization - turning an MS Purchase Order into an Order Acknowledgement, when we clicked the backwards "P" on the standard toolbar all these little marks, anchors, padlocks, box and circles, etc showed up. Obviously these marks are what anchor the background in place while the desired text is added. We tried building the desired template with the forms building toolbar. That has been successful in special cases, but what we are really looking for is how we can create our own "MS Purchase Order" from scratch, using all those special characters MS used. Of course the first question is where did all those template characters come from and are they available to me in Word 97? When we looked up the articles you referenced, part 1 seemed to address exactly what we are wishing to do. But we got lost, overwhelmed, or something on part 2, because it appeared to us as if it was simply building a master document instead of a template. Thanks, K. "CyberTaz" wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by "special characters", but these two links should get you started; http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart1.htm http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart2.htm Someone will be glad to help if you have any specific queations. -- HTH |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "K" wrote in message ... Over the years we have altered many of the available templates to do what we have needed, but now we have need of a template that is unlike any we have been able to find. Would anyone know where we might look to find a description of the many special characters used in template building and how they work? Oh, we are in Word 97. All ideas, comments, and suggestions about this will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, K. |
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It sounds like you're trying to build a protected form. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...nTheBlanks.htm and especially the forms tutorials by Dian Chapman that this article links to. But I suspect you may need to know a bit more about Word before you attack it. -- 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. "K" wrote in message ... Thanks Cybertaz for considering and answering my post. During our latest customization - turning an MS Purchase Order into an Order Acknowledgement, when we clicked the backwards "P" on the standard toolbar all these little marks, anchors, padlocks, box and circles, etc showed up. Obviously these marks are what anchor the background in place while the desired text is added. We tried building the desired template with the forms building toolbar. That has been successful in special cases, but what we are really looking for is how we can create our own "MS Purchase Order" from scratch, using all those special characters MS used. Of course the first question is where did all those template characters come from and are they available to me in Word 97? When we looked up the articles you referenced, part 1 seemed to address exactly what we are wishing to do. But we got lost, overwhelmed, or something on part 2, because it appeared to us as if it was simply building a master document instead of a template. Thanks, K. "CyberTaz" wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by "special characters", but these two links should get you started; http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart1.htm http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart2.htm Someone will be glad to help if you have any specific queations. -- HTH |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "K" wrote in message ... Over the years we have altered many of the available templates to do what we have needed, but now we have need of a template that is unlike any we have been able to find. Would anyone know where we might look to find a description of the many special characters used in template building and how they work? Oh, we are in Word 97. All ideas, comments, and suggestions about this will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, K. |
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Thanks Cybertaz and Suzanne. Thank goodness you guys are mind readers. You
answered exactly what I was trying to ask. Appreciate the help, K. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It sounds like you're trying to build a protected form. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...nTheBlanks.htm and especially the forms tutorials by Dian Chapman that this article links to. But I suspect you may need to know a bit more about Word before you attack it. -- 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. "K" wrote in message ... Thanks Cybertaz for considering and answering my post. During our latest customization - turning an MS Purchase Order into an Order Acknowledgement, when we clicked the backwards "P" on the standard toolbar all these little marks, anchors, padlocks, box and circles, etc showed up. Obviously these marks are what anchor the background in place while the desired text is added. We tried building the desired template with the forms building toolbar. That has been successful in special cases, but what we are really looking for is how we can create our own "MS Purchase Order" from scratch, using all those special characters MS used. Of course the first question is where did all those template characters come from and are they available to me in Word 97? When we looked up the articles you referenced, part 1 seemed to address exactly what we are wishing to do. But we got lost, overwhelmed, or something on part 2, because it appeared to us as if it was simply building a master document instead of a template. Thanks, K. "CyberTaz" wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by "special characters", but these two links should get you started; http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart1.htm http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart2.htm Someone will be glad to help if you have any specific queations. -- HTH |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "K" wrote in message ... Over the years we have altered many of the available templates to do what we have needed, but now we have need of a template that is unlike any we have been able to find. Would anyone know where we might look to find a description of the many special characters used in template building and how they work? Oh, we are in Word 97. All ideas, comments, and suggestions about this will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, K. |
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