I am needing to insert buttons that answer questions in a Word document
already heaviy ladden with macros. The yes/no answers need to create a
reaction where designated text is hidden dependent on the answer to the
question. I am told to use Visual Basic Editor but am having a hard time
setting the document up. What do I do?

My old pal and fellow MVP Greg Maxey did some work on this a while back. See
if there is anything on his web site that would help.
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/
I am working off line at the moment and have cleared my internet cache so
you can check just as quickly as I can

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


tligett wrote:
I am needing to insert buttons that answer questions in a Word
document already heaviy ladden with macros. The yes/no answers need
to create a reaction where designated text is hidden dependent on the
answer to the question. I am told to use Visual Basic Editor but am
having a hard time setting the document up. What do I do?

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

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Graham Mayor wrote:
My old pal and fellow MVP Greg Maxey did some work on this a while
back. See if there is anything on his web site that would help.
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/
I am working off line at the moment and have cleared my internet
cache so you can check just as quickly as I can


tligett wrote:
I am needing to insert buttons that answer questions in a Word
document already heaviy ladden with macros. The yes/no answers need
to create a reaction where designated text is hidden dependent on the
answer to the question. I am told to use Visual Basic Editor but am
having a hard time setting the document up. What do I do?

Yes, but would you recommend this approach if the text to be hidden were a
whole paragraph, itself containing several form fields?
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Paul Bishop


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

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

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Graham Mayor wrote:
My old pal and fellow MVP Greg Maxey did some work on this a while
back. See if there is anything on his web site that would help.
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/
I am working off line at the moment and have cleared my internet
cache so you can check just as quickly as I can


tligett wrote:
I am needing to insert buttons that answer questions in a Word
document already heaviy ladden with macros. The yes/no answers need
to create a reaction where designated text is hidden dependent on the
answer to the question. I am told to use Visual Basic Editor but am
having a hard time setting the document up. What do I do?

No you can't do that. You'll have to rethink the whole form in order to do
this. You can insert texts based upon the result of a form field eg
http://www.gmayor.com/SelectFile.htm but extra form fields are a different
matter. I would personally approach this using userforms and macros to call
further userforms based on the responses to create the finished document.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Paul Bishop wrote:
Yes, but would you recommend this approach if the text to be hidden
were a whole paragraph, itself containing several form fields?

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

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Graham Mayor wrote:
My old pal and fellow MVP Greg Maxey did some work on this a while
back. See if there is anything on his web site that would help.
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/
I am working off line at the moment and have cleared my internet
cache so you can check just as quickly as I can


tligett wrote:
I am needing to insert buttons that answer questions in a Word
document already heaviy ladden with macros. The yes/no answers
need to create a reaction where designated text is hidden
dependent on the answer to the question. I am told to use Visual
Basic Editor but am having a hard time setting the document up.
What do I do?

Thanks. I managed to run the example at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms/CreateAUserForm.htm

My users will have multiple data items from the left side, right side, both
or neither. I suppose that if I put all the relevant text and combo boxes
into a userform, on returning I can populate the two [sets of] bookmarks in
the document appropriately. It would be nice, if the user realises that he
has made a mistake, for him to be able to return to the userform and edit the
data fora second pass.
--
Paul Bishop


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

No you can't do that. You'll have to rethink the whole form in order to do
this. You can insert texts based upon the result of a form field eg
http://www.gmayor.com/SelectFile.htm but extra form fields are a different
matter. I would personally approach this using userforms and macros to call
further userforms based on the responses to create the finished document.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Paul Bishop wrote:
Yes, but would you recommend this approach if the text to be hidden
were a whole paragraph, itself containing several form fields?

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

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Graham Mayor wrote:
My old pal and fellow MVP Greg Maxey did some work on this a while
back. See if there is anything on his web site that would help.
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/
I am working off line at the moment and have cleared my internet
cache so you can check just as quickly as I can


tligett wrote:
I am needing to insert buttons that answer questions in a Word
document already heaviy ladden with macros. The yes/no answers
need to create a reaction where designated text is hidden
dependent on the answer to the question. I am told to use Visual
Basic Editor but am having a hard time setting the document up.
What do I do?