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Text Form Fields - What is the benefit?
Hi - I'm currently working on a document using the developer - and inseting
text form fields - with the view to protect the document, and send to clients for their completion. I just don't know how to manipulate the data that will nnow be captued by the text form fields - do they import/export to excel? do they summarise somehow? what is the benefit of using form protected fields? Thanks! |
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Text Form Fields - What is the benefit?
Here are some solutions which use form fields to aggregate the data. In most
of the solutions she used Access to store the results, but Excel could be the "database" just as easily. http://www.mousetrax.com/Consulting_Solutions.html -- Dawn Crosier Microsoft MVP "Education Lasts a Lifetime" This message was posted to a newsgroup, Please post replies and questions to the group so that others can learn as well. "AG" wrote in message news Hi - I'm currently working on a document using the developer - and inseting text form fields - with the view to protect the document, and send to clients for their completion. I just don't know how to manipulate the data that will nnow be captued by the text form fields - do they import/export to excel? do they summarise somehow? what is the benefit of using form protected fields? Thanks! |
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Text Form Fields - What is the benefit?
Still doesn't help in connecting Word (and the form text fields) to Access /
Excel - do i need to convert it to xml? "Dawn Crosier, Word MVP" wrote: Here are some solutions which use form fields to aggregate the data. In most of the solutions she used Access to store the results, but Excel could be the "database" just as easily. http://www.mousetrax.com/Consulting_Solutions.html -- Dawn Crosier Microsoft MVP "Education Lasts a Lifetime" This message was posted to a newsgroup, Please post replies and questions to the group so that others can learn as well. "AG" wrote in message news Hi - I'm currently working on a document using the developer - and inseting text form fields - with the view to protect the document, and send to clients for their completion. I just don't know how to manipulate the data that will nnow be captued by the text form fields - do they import/export to excel? do they summarise somehow? what is the benefit of using form protected fields? Thanks! |
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Text Form Fields - What is the benefit?
Nope -
Here's a set of tutorials, pay special attention to Part 5 which contains the database connectivity. Part 1: http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=22 Part 2: http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=46 Part 3: http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=119 Part 4: http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=127 Part 5: http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=136 Hope that helps... -- Dawn Crosier Microsoft MVP "Education Lasts a Lifetime" This message was posted to a newsgroup, Please post replies and questions to the group so that others can learn as well. "AG" wrote in message ... Still doesn't help in connecting Word (and the form text fields) to Access / Excel - do i need to convert it to xml? "Dawn Crosier, Word MVP" wrote: Here are some solutions which use form fields to aggregate the data. In most of the solutions she used Access to store the results, but Excel could be the "database" just as easily. http://www.mousetrax.com/Consulting_Solutions.html -- Dawn Crosier Microsoft MVP "Education Lasts a Lifetime" This message was posted to a newsgroup, Please post replies and questions to the group so that others can learn as well. "AG" wrote in message news Hi - I'm currently working on a document using the developer - and inseting text form fields - with the view to protect the document, and send to clients for their completion. I just don't know how to manipulate the data that will nnow be captued by the text form fields - do they import/export to excel? do they summarise somehow? what is the benefit of using form protected fields? Thanks! |
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Text Form Fields - What is the benefit?
Great - thank you for the help - am looking through it now...
"Dawn Crosier, Word MVP" wrote: Nope - Here's a set of tutorials, pay special attention to Part 5 which contains the database connectivity. Part 1: http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=22 Part 2: http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=46 Part 3: http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=119 Part 4: http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=127 Part 5: http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=136 Hope that helps... -- Dawn Crosier Microsoft MVP "Education Lasts a Lifetime" This message was posted to a newsgroup, Please post replies and questions to the group so that others can learn as well. "AG" wrote in message ... Still doesn't help in connecting Word (and the form text fields) to Access / Excel - do i need to convert it to xml? "Dawn Crosier, Word MVP" wrote: Here are some solutions which use form fields to aggregate the data. In most of the solutions she used Access to store the results, but Excel could be the "database" just as easily. http://www.mousetrax.com/Consulting_Solutions.html -- Dawn Crosier Microsoft MVP "Education Lasts a Lifetime" This message was posted to a newsgroup, Please post replies and questions to the group so that others can learn as well. "AG" wrote in message news Hi - I'm currently working on a document using the developer - and inseting text form fields - with the view to protect the document, and send to clients for their completion. I just don't know how to manipulate the data that will nnow be captued by the text form fields - do they import/export to excel? do they summarise somehow? what is the benefit of using form protected fields? Thanks! |
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