[real estate, not doc prep!]

I'm very new to this, and pretty much teaching myself how to use mail merge
while trying to develop forms for my company...

SO - very simple: I'm putting together Request for Proposal letters where I
have to fill in the current date, proposal due date, draft date and final
report date.

How do I create fiels for each date so that the document essentially "asks"
the user what date to fill in each field?

Thanks!

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Use either an { ASK "Prompt" } or { FILLIN " Prompt" } field. If you add
the \o switch to either of those fields, you will only be asked for the
information once at the beginning of the merge.

Why not however insert the fields in the datasource so that you do not have
to fill them in when executing the merge.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"real estate, not doc prep!" real estate, not doc
wrote in message
...
I'm very new to this, and pretty much teaching myself how to use mail
merge
while trying to develop forms for my company...

SO - very simple: I'm putting together Request for Proposal letters where
I
have to fill in the current date, proposal due date, draft date and final
report date.

How do I create fiels for each date so that the document essentially
"asks"
the user what date to fill in each field?

Thanks!

[Graham Mayor]

If these dates have a fixed relationship to one another (and or the current
date) you could automate the whole date insertion process without having to
prompt for dates - see
http://www.gmayor.com/insert_a_date_...than_today.htm and especially the
link to Macropod's excellent work on date field calculations -
http://www.gmayor.com/downloads.htm#Third_party

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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


real estate, not doc prep! wrote:
I'm very new to this, and pretty much teaching myself how to use mail
merge while trying to develop forms for my company...

SO - very simple: I'm putting together Request for Proposal letters
where I have to fill in the current date, proposal due date, draft
date and final report date.

How do I create fiels for each date so that the document essentially
"asks" the user what date to fill in each field?

Thanks!