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Fill-In fields not working correctly on WordMerge doc
I have two fill-in fields on my word merge document that appear to be coded
correctly, but the pop-up to fill in the values are not appearing. When I select 'Toggle Field Codes' the following is displayed for the field selected: {FILLIN "Please enter Takeover Amount" \d "0.00"}. If I place my cursor on that field, right click, and select 'Update Field' the prompt pop-up will come up, allow me to enter a value, and then display the value entered correctly in the letter. Problem: How do I get the FillIn prompts to display automatically? Thanks!! -- Pat |
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Fill-In fields not working correctly on WordMerge doc
Hi Pat,
I have two fill-in fields on my word merge document that appear to be coded correctly, but the pop-up to fill in the values are not appearing. When I select 'Toggle Field Codes' the following is displayed for the field selected: {FILLIN "Please enter Takeover Amount" \d "0.00"}. If I place my cursor on that field, right click, and select 'Update Field' the prompt pop-up will come up, allow me to enter a value, and then display the value entered correctly in the letter. Problem: How do I get the FillIn prompts to display automatically? Can you please be more specific about what you mean by "automatically"? When do you expect them to appear? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Fill-In fields not working correctly on WordMerge doc
-- Pat "Cindy M." wrote: Hi Pat, I have two fill-in fields on my word merge document that appear to be coded correctly, but the pop-up to fill in the values are not appearing. When I select 'Toggle Field Codes' the following is displayed for the field selected: {FILLIN "Please enter Takeover Amount" \d "0.00"}. If I place my cursor on that field, right click, and select 'Update Field' the prompt pop-up will come up, allow me to enter a value, and then display the value entered correctly in the letter. Problem: How do I get the FillIn prompts to display automatically? Can you please be more specific about what you mean by "automatically"? When do you expect them to appear? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Hi Cindy, The User selects a button on the MSAccess form that calls the Word Merge letter. When the letter is displayed the variable fields are pre-filled with data from the database. From what I'm told...the fill-in prompt requesting the takeover amount was displayed when the letter opened. When the correct amount was entered, the User selected OK, then the second fill-in prompt for the Date would be displayed. The only way those prompts appear now is if they right click on the field and select Update field. Your help is greatly appreciated!! Pat |
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Fill-In fields not working correctly on WordMerge doc
Hi Pat,
I have two fill-in fields on my word merge document that appear to be coded correctly, but the pop-up to fill in the values are not appearing. When I select 'Toggle Field Codes' the following is displayed for the field selected: {FILLIN "Please enter Takeover Amount" \d "0.00"}. If I place my cursor on that field, right click, and select 'Update Field' the prompt pop-up will come up, allow me to enter a value, and then display the value entered correctly in the letter. Problem: How do I get the FillIn prompts to display automatically? Can you please be more specific about what you mean by "automatically"? When do you expect them to appear? The User selects a button on the MSAccess form that calls the Word Merge letter. When the letter is displayed the variable fields are pre-filled with data from the database. From what I'm told...the fill-in prompt requesting the takeover amount was displayed when the letter opened. When the correct amount was entered, the User selected OK, then the second fill-in prompt for the Date would be displayed. The only way those prompts appear now is if they right click on the field and select Update field. OK... Check the code behind the button in the Access form: does it use Documents.Open or Documents.Add to bring up the Word mail merge letter? Since, oh, about Word 95 or Word 97 Fillin fields are displayed automatically when a document is created from a template, but not when a document is simply opened. VBA code can force a display ("imitate" the right-click). I can only guess that either the template was replaced with a document, or the code has been changed... Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Fill-In fields not working correctly on WordMerge doc
Pat-I saw where you were having trouble getting the prompts for the fillin
field to pop up-I am having the same problem-did you get it figured out? "PatRyan" wrote: I have two fill-in fields on my word merge document that appear to be coded correctly, but the pop-up to fill in the values are not appearing. When I select 'Toggle Field Codes' the following is displayed for the field selected: {FILLIN "Please enter Takeover Amount" \d "0.00"}. If I place my cursor on that field, right click, and select 'Update Field' the prompt pop-up will come up, allow me to enter a value, and then display the value entered correctly in the letter. Problem: How do I get the FillIn prompts to display automatically? Thanks!! -- Pat |
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