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Wizard creation in Word
Is it possible to create Wizard in Word? My thought is to walk a user through
a series of questions. As they answer, certain areas of the document would populate with appropriate content language. They could actually build a document cafeteria style. Has anyone heard of Word having this kind of capability. If not Word, any other applications without going to a full blown content management system with XML tags, etc. Thoughts would be appreciated. thanks |
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Wizard creation in Word
cayce wrote:
Is it possible to create Wizard in Word? My thought is to walk a user through a series of questions. As they answer, certain areas of the document would populate with appropriate content language. They could actually build a document cafeteria style. Has anyone heard of Word having this kind of capability. If not Word, any other applications without going to a full blown content management system with XML tags, etc. Thoughts would be appreciated. thanks Yes, with some effort that can be done. But you don't have to do all this work yourself. Look at http://www.wordsite.com/products/dpdas.htm to see whether DataPrompter will serve your purpose instead of spending the time to learn VBA, build your wizard, debug it, and handle users' complaints. If that doesn't suit, here's some background: Basically a wizard is a UserForm, a dialog programmed in VBA (macro) language. A simple introduction to UserForms is at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userfo...eAUserForm.htm. The one shown there is a single page that accepts two pieces of data and inserts them into a document (based on a template) at predefined bookmarks. However, there's much more capability available to you. The thing that makes a UserForm behave as a wizard is that you can create multiple pages with various kinds of controls. You can let the user navigate through the pages in a fixed order (with Next and Back buttons), in random order if that's appropriate (by providing a button to go to each page), or in an order determined dynamically by the user's input in the controls. The controls can include text fields, list boxes or combo boxes, option buttons, check boxes, and more. There are alternatives to the predefined bookmarks in the document. A more robust solution involves the UserForm putting the user's responses into "document variables" and using DocVariable fields to display the results. You also have flexibility in the sources for the text that you envision as the building blocks of the document. You can have AutoText entries stored in the template, text in another Word document or Excel worksheet, a database, a web service... There's an entire newsgroup devoted to UserForms: http://www.microsoft.com/communities...ba.userform s -- 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. |
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Wizard creation in Word
This is a wealth of information and I will now need to get educated. Thanks
Jay for pointing me in the right direction here. "Jay Freedman" wrote: cayce wrote: Is it possible to create Wizard in Word? My thought is to walk a user through a series of questions. As they answer, certain areas of the document would populate with appropriate content language. They could actually build a document cafeteria style. Has anyone heard of Word having this kind of capability. If not Word, any other applications without going to a full blown content management system with XML tags, etc. Thoughts would be appreciated. thanks Yes, with some effort that can be done. But you don't have to do all this work yourself. Look at http://www.wordsite.com/products/dpdas.htm to see whether DataPrompter will serve your purpose instead of spending the time to learn VBA, build your wizard, debug it, and handle users' complaints. If that doesn't suit, here's some background: Basically a wizard is a UserForm, a dialog programmed in VBA (macro) language. A simple introduction to UserForms is at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userfo...eAUserForm.htm. The one shown there is a single page that accepts two pieces of data and inserts them into a document (based on a template) at predefined bookmarks. However, there's much more capability available to you. The thing that makes a UserForm behave as a wizard is that you can create multiple pages with various kinds of controls. You can let the user navigate through the pages in a fixed order (with Next and Back buttons), in random order if that's appropriate (by providing a button to go to each page), or in an order determined dynamically by the user's input in the controls. The controls can include text fields, list boxes or combo boxes, option buttons, check boxes, and more. There are alternatives to the predefined bookmarks in the document. A more robust solution involves the UserForm putting the user's responses into "document variables" and using DocVariable fields to display the results. You also have flexibility in the sources for the text that you envision as the building blocks of the document. You can have AutoText entries stored in the template, text in another Word document or Excel worksheet, a database, a web service... There's an entire newsgroup devoted to UserForms: http://www.microsoft.com/communities...ba.userform s -- 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. |
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