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Best way to enter address, body of letter, closing..Macros? Templa
In WP10, (pardon me for saying that out loud here) I was taught to make
macros for doctor's addresses, basic body of letter, etc. Easy! How to do it in Word or what is "the way it should be done"? This eliminated a lot of repetitive typing of the same thing. The letters were all different (not a form letter) and the address on each letter was different from the rest (not same letter going to many different addresses). For the life of me, I am lost! Need training fast! Would like to do it the "right" way right from the start! In WP, for instance, the macro for a doc's address (which I had about 300 or so) would include the spacing between the date of letter and then the address, Subject line and the Dear Dr. Whatever that the particular doc required. I used a different macro that supplied the basic body of the letter, the things the doc always said, including the closing, spacing, etc. such as: March 12, 2010 Thank you for referring M to me. I saw in the office on H past ocular history is otherwise unremarkable. H past medical history is positive for On examination currentlly, h vision was 20/ in the right eye and 20/ in the left eye..... Blah blah Kindest regards, Dr.s name initials I need a way to "feed" a basic body of a letter that I can add to (not typeover) from dictation and also send macros or whatever way to add the address the letter will go to, etc. Each document may have 20 different letters to 20 different doctors. I am trying to make the switch to Word 2007. I have so many addresses and so many AutoCorrect entries, etc., to add. Sigh! Thanks a million for any help....Sherry -- Sherry at MTO Using Word 2007 on Windows XP Home SP3 I have been a WP user since WP 4.2 for MSDos. Need help to change to Word 2007. |
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Best way to enter address, body of letter, closing..Macros? Templa
You might see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Letterhead.htm for some
suggestions about styles and http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AutoText.htm for information about saving chunks of boilerplate text. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "MTO" wrote in message ... In WP10, (pardon me for saying that out loud here) I was taught to make macros for doctor's addresses, basic body of letter, etc. Easy! How to do it in Word or what is "the way it should be done"? This eliminated a lot of repetitive typing of the same thing. The letters were all different (not a form letter) and the address on each letter was different from the rest (not same letter going to many different addresses). For the life of me, I am lost! Need training fast! Would like to do it the "right" way right from the start! In WP, for instance, the macro for a doc's address (which I had about 300 or so) would include the spacing between the date of letter and then the address, Subject line and the Dear Dr. Whatever that the particular doc required. I used a different macro that supplied the basic body of the letter, the things the doc always said, including the closing, spacing, etc. such as: March 12, 2010 Thank you for referring M to me. I saw in the office on H past ocular history is otherwise unremarkable. H past medical history is positive for On examination currentlly, h vision was 20/ in the right eye and 20/ in the left eye..... Blah blah Kindest regards, Dr.s name initials I need a way to "feed" a basic body of a letter that I can add to (not typeover) from dictation and also send macros or whatever way to add the address the letter will go to, etc. Each document may have 20 different letters to 20 different doctors. I am trying to make the switch to Word 2007. I have so many addresses and so many AutoCorrect entries, etc., to add. Sigh! Thanks a million for any help....Sherry -- Sherry at MTO Using Word 2007 on Windows XP Home SP3 I have been a WP user since WP 4.2 for MSDos. Need help to change to Word 2007. |
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Best way to enter address, body of letter, closing..Macros? Templa
See the article "How to create a Userform" at:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms/CreateAUserForm.htm and the following pages of fellow MVP Greg Maxey's website : http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Create_and...a_UserForm.htm http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Populate_UserForm_ListBox.htm -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "MTO" wrote in message ... In WP10, (pardon me for saying that out loud here) I was taught to make macros for doctor's addresses, basic body of letter, etc. Easy! How to do it in Word or what is "the way it should be done"? This eliminated a lot of repetitive typing of the same thing. The letters were all different (not a form letter) and the address on each letter was different from the rest (not same letter going to many different addresses). For the life of me, I am lost! Need training fast! Would like to do it the "right" way right from the start! In WP, for instance, the macro for a doc's address (which I had about 300 or so) would include the spacing between the date of letter and then the address, Subject line and the Dear Dr. Whatever that the particular doc required. I used a different macro that supplied the basic body of the letter, the things the doc always said, including the closing, spacing, etc. such as: March 12, 2010 Thank you for referring M to me. I saw in the office on H past ocular history is otherwise unremarkable. H past medical history is positive for On examination currentlly, h vision was 20/ in the right eye and 20/ in the left eye..... Blah blah Kindest regards, Dr.s name initials I need a way to "feed" a basic body of a letter that I can add to (not typeover) from dictation and also send macros or whatever way to add the address the letter will go to, etc. Each document may have 20 different letters to 20 different doctors. I am trying to make the switch to Word 2007. I have so many addresses and so many AutoCorrect entries, etc., to add. Sigh! Thanks a million for any help....Sherry -- Sherry at MTO Using Word 2007 on Windows XP Home SP3 I have been a WP user since WP 4.2 for MSDos. Need help to change to Word 2007. |
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Best way to enter address, body of letter, closing..Macros? Te
Hi Suzanne,
Thanks for answering my post. In your article about making a template for letters, you stated: "As for the recipients name, there are various ways to get Word to insert this automatically, but they are beyond the scope of this article." Could you provide a link to something that discusses these various ways, please? -- Sherry at MTO Using Word 2007 on Windows XP Home SP3 "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You might see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Letterhead.htm for some suggestions about styles and http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AutoText.htm for information about saving chunks of boilerplate text. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "MTO" wrote in message ... In WP10, (pardon me for saying that out loud here) I was taught to make macros for doctor's addresses, basic body of letter, etc. Easy! How to do it in Word or what is "the way it should be done"? This eliminated a lot of repetitive typing of the same thing. The letters were all different (not a form letter) and the address on each letter was different from the rest (not same letter going to many different addresses). For the life of me, I am lost! Need training fast! Would like to do it the "right" way right from the start! In WP, for instance, the macro for a doc's address (which I had about 300 or so) would include the spacing between the date of letter and then the address, Subject line and the Dear Dr. Whatever that the particular doc required. I used a different macro that supplied the basic body of the letter, the things the doc always said, including the closing, spacing, etc. such as: March 12, 2010 Thank you for referring M to me. I saw in the office on H past ocular history is otherwise unremarkable. H past medical history is positive for On examination currentlly, h vision was 20/ in the right eye and 20/ in the left eye..... Blah blah Kindest regards, Dr.s name initials I need a way to "feed" a basic body of a letter that I can add to (not typeover) from dictation and also send macros or whatever way to add the address the letter will go to, etc. Each document may have 20 different letters to 20 different doctors. I am trying to make the switch to Word 2007. I have so many addresses and so many AutoCorrect entries, etc., to add. Sigh! Thanks a million for any help....Sherry -- Sherry at MTO Using Word 2007 on Windows XP Home SP3 I have been a WP user since WP 4.2 for MSDos. Need help to change to Word 2007. . |
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Best way to enter address, body of letter, closing..Macros? Te
See the article "How to create a Userform" at:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms/CreateAUserForm.htm and the following pages of fellow MVP Greg Maxey's website : http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Create_and...a_UserForm.htm http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Populate_UserForm_ListBox.htm -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "MTO" wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne, Thanks for answering my post. In your article about making a template for letters, you stated: "As for the recipients name, there are various ways to get Word to insert this automatically, but they are beyond the scope of this article." Could you provide a link to something that discusses these various ways, please? -- Sherry at MTO Using Word 2007 on Windows XP Home SP3 "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You might see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Letterhead.htm for some suggestions about styles and http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AutoText.htm for information about saving chunks of boilerplate text. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "MTO" wrote in message ... In WP10, (pardon me for saying that out loud here) I was taught to make macros for doctor's addresses, basic body of letter, etc. Easy! How to do it in Word or what is "the way it should be done"? This eliminated a lot of repetitive typing of the same thing. The letters were all different (not a form letter) and the address on each letter was different from the rest (not same letter going to many different addresses). For the life of me, I am lost! Need training fast! Would like to do it the "right" way right from the start! In WP, for instance, the macro for a doc's address (which I had about 300 or so) would include the spacing between the date of letter and then the address, Subject line and the Dear Dr. Whatever that the particular doc required. I used a different macro that supplied the basic body of the letter, the things the doc always said, including the closing, spacing, etc. such as: March 12, 2010 Thank you for referring M to me. I saw in the office on H past ocular history is otherwise unremarkable. H past medical history is positive for On examination currentlly, h vision was 20/ in the right eye and 20/ in the left eye..... Blah blah Kindest regards, Dr.s name initials I need a way to "feed" a basic body of a letter that I can add to (not typeover) from dictation and also send macros or whatever way to add the address the letter will go to, etc. Each document may have 20 different letters to 20 different doctors. I am trying to make the switch to Word 2007. I have so many addresses and so many AutoCorrect entries, etc., to add. Sigh! Thanks a million for any help....Sherry -- Sherry at MTO Using Word 2007 on Windows XP Home SP3 I have been a WP user since WP 4.2 for MSDos. Need help to change to Word 2007. . |
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Best way to enter address, body of letter, closing..Macros? Te
The reference is to inserting the recipient's name in the second-page
header, which can be done with a StyleRef field, but you would first have to create a character style (see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/StyleRef.htm) and apply it to just the part of the name you want in the header. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... See the article "How to create a Userform" at: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms/CreateAUserForm.htm and the following pages of fellow MVP Greg Maxey's website : http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Create_and...a_UserForm.htm http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Populate_UserForm_ListBox.htm -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "MTO" wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne, Thanks for answering my post. In your article about making a template for letters, you stated: "As for the recipients name, there are various ways to get Word to insert this automatically, but they are beyond the scope of this article." Could you provide a link to something that discusses these various ways, please? -- Sherry at MTO Using Word 2007 on Windows XP Home SP3 "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You might see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Letterhead.htm for some suggestions about styles and http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AutoText.htm for information about saving chunks of boilerplate text. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "MTO" wrote in message ... In WP10, (pardon me for saying that out loud here) I was taught to make macros for doctor's addresses, basic body of letter, etc. Easy! How to do it in Word or what is "the way it should be done"? This eliminated a lot of repetitive typing of the same thing. The letters were all different (not a form letter) and the address on each letter was different from the rest (not same letter going to many different addresses). For the life of me, I am lost! Need training fast! Would like to do it the "right" way right from the start! In WP, for instance, the macro for a doc's address (which I had about 300 or so) would include the spacing between the date of letter and then the address, Subject line and the Dear Dr. Whatever that the particular doc required. I used a different macro that supplied the basic body of the letter, the things the doc always said, including the closing, spacing, etc. such as: March 12, 2010 Thank you for referring M to me. I saw in the office on H past ocular history is otherwise unremarkable. H past medical history is positive for On examination currentlly, h vision was 20/ in the right eye and 20/ in the left eye..... Blah blah Kindest regards, Dr.s name initials I need a way to "feed" a basic body of a letter that I can add to (not typeover) from dictation and also send macros or whatever way to add the address the letter will go to, etc. Each document may have 20 different letters to 20 different doctors. I am trying to make the switch to Word 2007. I have so many addresses and so many AutoCorrect entries, etc., to add. Sigh! Thanks a million for any help....Sherry -- Sherry at MTO Using Word 2007 on Windows XP Home SP3 I have been a WP user since WP 4.2 for MSDos. Need help to change to Word 2007. . |
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Best way to enter address, body of letter, closing..Macros? Te
The OP would be best served by creating templates with userforms in them.
-- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... The reference is to inserting the recipient's name in the second-page header, which can be done with a StyleRef field, but you would first have to create a character style (see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/StyleRef.htm) and apply it to just the part of the name you want in the header. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... See the article "How to create a Userform" at: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms/CreateAUserForm.htm and the following pages of fellow MVP Greg Maxey's website : http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Create_and...a_UserForm.htm http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Populate_UserForm_ListBox.htm -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "MTO" wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne, Thanks for answering my post. In your article about making a template for letters, you stated: "As for the recipients name, there are various ways to get Word to insert this automatically, but they are beyond the scope of this article." Could you provide a link to something that discusses these various ways, please? -- Sherry at MTO Using Word 2007 on Windows XP Home SP3 "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You might see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Letterhead.htm for some suggestions about styles and http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AutoText.htm for information about saving chunks of boilerplate text. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "MTO" wrote in message ... In WP10, (pardon me for saying that out loud here) I was taught to make macros for doctor's addresses, basic body of letter, etc. Easy! How to do it in Word or what is "the way it should be done"? This eliminated a lot of repetitive typing of the same thing. The letters were all different (not a form letter) and the address on each letter was different from the rest (not same letter going to many different addresses). For the life of me, I am lost! Need training fast! Would like to do it the "right" way right from the start! In WP, for instance, the macro for a doc's address (which I had about 300 or so) would include the spacing between the date of letter and then the address, Subject line and the Dear Dr. Whatever that the particular doc required. I used a different macro that supplied the basic body of the letter, the things the doc always said, including the closing, spacing, etc. such as: March 12, 2010 Thank you for referring M to me. I saw in the office on H past ocular history is otherwise unremarkable. H past medical history is positive for On examination currentlly, h vision was 20/ in the right eye and 20/ in the left eye..... Blah blah Kindest regards, Dr.s name initials I need a way to "feed" a basic body of a letter that I can add to (not typeover) from dictation and also send macros or whatever way to add the address the letter will go to, etc. Each document may have 20 different letters to 20 different doctors. I am trying to make the switch to Word 2007. I have so many addresses and so many AutoCorrect entries, etc., to add. Sigh! Thanks a million for any help....Sherry -- Sherry at MTO Using Word 2007 on Windows XP Home SP3 I have been a WP user since WP 4.2 for MSDos. Need help to change to Word 2007. . |
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Given the original problem, I suspect you're right. However, I answered the
immediate question. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... The OP would be best served by creating templates with userforms in them. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... The reference is to inserting the recipient's name in the second-page header, which can be done with a StyleRef field, but you would first have to create a character style (see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/StyleRef.htm) and apply it to just the part of the name you want in the header. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... See the article "How to create a Userform" at: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms/CreateAUserForm.htm and the following pages of fellow MVP Greg Maxey's website : http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Create_and...a_UserForm.htm http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Populate_UserForm_ListBox.htm -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "MTO" wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne, Thanks for answering my post. In your article about making a template for letters, you stated: "As for the recipients name, there are various ways to get Word to insert this automatically, but they are beyond the scope of this article." Could you provide a link to something that discusses these various ways, please? -- Sherry at MTO Using Word 2007 on Windows XP Home SP3 "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You might see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Letterhead.htm for some suggestions about styles and http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AutoText.htm for information about saving chunks of boilerplate text. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "MTO" wrote in message ... In WP10, (pardon me for saying that out loud here) I was taught to make macros for doctor's addresses, basic body of letter, etc. Easy! How to do it in Word or what is "the way it should be done"? This eliminated a lot of repetitive typing of the same thing. The letters were all different (not a form letter) and the address on each letter was different from the rest (not same letter going to many different addresses). For the life of me, I am lost! Need training fast! Would like to do it the "right" way right from the start! In WP, for instance, the macro for a doc's address (which I had about 300 or so) would include the spacing between the date of letter and then the address, Subject line and the Dear Dr. Whatever that the particular doc required. I used a different macro that supplied the basic body of the letter, the things the doc always said, including the closing, spacing, etc. such as: March 12, 2010 Thank you for referring M to me. I saw in the office on H past ocular history is otherwise unremarkable. H past medical history is positive for On examination currentlly, h vision was 20/ in the right eye and 20/ in the left eye..... Blah blah Kindest regards, Dr.s name initials I need a way to "feed" a basic body of a letter that I can add to (not typeover) from dictation and also send macros or whatever way to add the address the letter will go to, etc. Each document may have 20 different letters to 20 different doctors. I am trying to make the switch to Word 2007. I have so many addresses and so many AutoCorrect entries, etc., to add. Sigh! Thanks a million for any help....Sherry -- Sherry at MTO Using Word 2007 on Windows XP Home SP3 I have been a WP user since WP 4.2 for MSDos. Need help to change to Word 2007. . |
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