[Thomas M.]

I read your article, and I agree with the following statement from the
article;

"The interface has been completely redesigned, and simple functions have
been replaced with unnecessary complexity."

I think that I've gotten the user squared away. I was on the right track
the whole time, but was getting confused by the aforementioned unnecessary
complexity. I now have it working about the best it is going to work given
the criteria set down by the user.

--Tom

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
In that case it seems to be a simple mail merge document -
http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_lab...th_word_xp.htm covers the
rudiments of merge.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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


Thomas M. wrote:
I was able to talk to the user directly (I had been working through a
Network Administrator with another agency) and it sounds like all he
wants to do is have fields inserted into the document that he
receives so that he can do a merge with another data source file. The
people who maintain the document are supposedly willing to insert
the fields if they can be shown how to do that, and then the user
that I am helping would just need to create the data source. That
should be doable.
--Tom

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
The password issue isn't a problem. Obviously she can open the
document or we wouldn't be having this conversation. You can save
the document with a new name without the password, or in the case of
a form - see http://www.gmayor.com/Remove_Password.htm With the
document open for editing, you can add what you want to it. However
the rest of the requirement eludes me.
--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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


Thomas M. wrote:
Word 2003

I work in second tier support and today I got a trouble ticket on
something that I do not think can be done in Word the way the user
wants. I can't even begin to think of how I would explain this, so
I'm just going to cut and paste the text from my trouble ticket.

*** Start of Ticket ***
"Donovan receives a word document that is password protected and he
does not know the password. It is a phone list that includes not
only phone numbers but also addresses for all counties. Donovan
would like to put in field tags that only he can see for his
personal notes such as this employee works Monday, Wednesday, and
Friday. He receives updates for this document periodically
throughout the year. He would like to automatically move his field
tags from his current document to the new updated document. He said
in Word Perfect there was a way to do this. He would like to know
the way to do this in Word. Sarah has tried the merge and compare
idea in Word but this does not work for Donovan. It changes the
formatting of the original document and is more cumbersome to enter
his notes. They tried Track changes but he did not like this idea
either for similar reasons. Sarah describes this as having two layers.
The first layer is the
original document and then the second layer is one that overlays the
first with his comments. Donovan is pretty adament that he would
like to be able to do like he did in WordPerfect and tab to the
fields he creates." *** End of Ticket ***

My first thought is that if he doesn't know the password to the
document it seems like a moot point! My second thought is that the
only way to do this is with macros, and we don't write macros for
the end users, so unless the user is able to write the macro
himself, he will basically be out of luck.
However, before responding to the user I thought that I would check
here to see if anyone knows of a way to do what the user wants to
accomplish.
--Tom