Hi Steve,
One way is to use formfields on the front page. By default, each of these
has a bookmark name assigned to it and at the other locations in the
document where you want the information to appear, you can insert cross
references to the text of the bookmark. If in the Properties dialog for the
formfields, you check the "Calculate on exit" box, the cross references will
be updated so that they display the information entered into the formfield.
A disadvantage of this method however is that it requires the document, or
at least the Section of it that contains the formfields to be protected and
this imposes some restrictions on the use of some features in Word for the
whole of the document. The principal feature that is disabled is the
ability to use the Spell checker. You will find a work around for this in
the article "How to enable the spellchecker in a protected document" at:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Macros...ProtectDoc.htm
The other alternative is to use a UserForm which is a purpose built dialog
box and have the user enter the data into controls on the userform and then
code in the form is used to populate the various places in the document
where you want the data to appear. With this method, there are no
restrictions on the functionality of Word.
See the article "How to create a Userform" at:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Userfo...eAUserForm.htm
Please respond to the newsgroups for the benefit of others who may be
interested.
Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Steve Finlayson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I am trying to create a form that will have data entered on a cover
> page and would like the information to appear in various places in
> later pages. How do I set this up so that the data is entered once and
> then appears later. In Excel I could simply use the formula to have a
> cell contents show in another cell like =A22. How do I do that in
> Word?
>
> Thanks
> Steve
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