[CarolZdc]

Our office was sent multiple-page Word forms to use in application situations
with fields to type in needed information. Information in different sections
of the form contain the same information. To reduce information in keying,
is there a way to "link" some of the fields to "auto-fill" other fields so
this information does not have to be re-keyed in each section? Ex: page 1
has a name field for Applicant A and one for Applicant B. The same
information needs to be keyed into fields for signature boxes, and at the
top of each of page 2 and 3 as identifying information for the document.
Each section of the forms I am working with is a separate table, with as many
as 3 and 4 tables making up a page.

I know how I would do this in Excel but I am not having any success with Word.

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

See the following page of fellow MVP Greg Maxey's website:

http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Repeating_Data.htm

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
"CarolZdc" wrote in message
...
Our office was sent multiple-page Word forms to use in application
situations
with fields to type in needed information. Information in different
sections
of the form contain the same information. To reduce information in
keying,
is there a way to "link" some of the fields to "auto-fill" other fields so
this information does not have to be re-keyed in each section? Ex: page
1
has a name field for Applicant A and one for Applicant B. The same
information needs to be keyed into fields for signature boxes, and at the
top of each of page 2 and 3 as identifying information for the document.
Each section of the forms I am working with is a separate table, with as
many
as 3 and 4 tables making up a page.

I know how I would do this in Excel but I am not having any success with
Word.

[mdsj]

I have tried several of the methods described in the link. I can't get any of them to work. I tried the On-Line forms and using the {Ref Text1} feature and it doesn't work. Also I can not find the protect form button. So I tried using the Restrict Editing button and that doesn't work.

Please help!

Originally Posted by Doug Robbins - Word MVP

See the following page of fellow MVP Greg Maxey's website:

http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Repeating_Data.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
"CarolZdc" wrote in message
...
Our office was sent multiple-page Word forms to use in application
situations
with fields to type in needed information. Information in different
sections
of the form contain the same information. To reduce information in
keying,
is there a way to "link" some of the fields to "auto-fill" other fields so
this information does not have to be re-keyed in each section? Ex: page
1
has a name field for Applicant A and one for Applicant B. The same
information needs to be keyed into fields for signature boxes, and at the
top of each of page 2 and 3 as identifying information for the document.
Each section of the forms I am working with is a separate table, with as
many
as 3 and 4 tables making up a page.

I know how I would do this in Excel but I am not having any success with
Word.