[HairyFool]

I am trying to set up a series of dialogue boxes as a front end to a word
document template asking the operator to fill in information for the letter.
As the data comes from a completly independant (secure) source on another
screen they cannot copy the data across but I would prefer to use a separate
series of dialogue screens so I can use the labels of the fields in the
second system.

I could also streamline the process somewhat if I could set the 1st screen
to ask for an account number to allow it to look up some of the data from an
SQL database i.e. the name and address.

Only when the last screen is completed and they press a "Done" button would
it display the completed letter for printing. I have seen this done with
WordPro without any programming, is this function available in Word. The
second feature is not essential as I haven't exported the names and addresses
yet.

[Graham Mayor]

You won't do it without programming. For the basics, see Word MVP FAQ -
Userforms
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms.htm

for a more in depth explanation, see
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Create_and...a_UserForm.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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



HairyFool wrote:
I am trying to set up a series of dialogue boxes as a front end to a
word document template asking the operator to fill in information for
the letter. As the data comes from a completly independant (secure)
source on another screen they cannot copy the data across but I would
prefer to use a separate series of dialogue screens so I can use the
labels of the fields in the second system.

I could also streamline the process somewhat if I could set the 1st
screen to ask for an account number to allow it to look up some of
the data from an SQL database i.e. the name and address.

Only when the last screen is completed and they press a "Done" button
would it display the completed letter for printing. I have seen this
done with WordPro without any programming, is this function available
in Word. The second feature is not essential as I haven't exported
the names and addresses yet.

[HairyFool]

Thank you for this, at least I know not to keep looking. I will be following
the links later.

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

You won't do it without programming. For the basics, see Word MVP FAQ -
Userforms
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms.htm

for a more in depth explanation, see
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Create_and...a_UserForm.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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



HairyFool wrote:
I am trying to set up a series of dialogue boxes as a front end to a
word document template asking the operator to fill in information for
the letter. As the data comes from a completly independant (secure)
source on another screen they cannot copy the data across but I would
prefer to use a separate series of dialogue screens so I can use the
labels of the fields in the second system.

I could also streamline the process somewhat if I could set the 1st
screen to ask for an account number to allow it to look up some of
the data from an SQL database i.e. the name and address.

Only when the last screen is completed and they press a "Done" button
would it display the completed letter for printing. I have seen this
done with WordPro without any programming, is this function available
in Word. The second feature is not essential as I haven't exported
the names and addresses yet.