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I have a form for a general contract. I have made it a locked template with many text form fields. 95% of the fields are going to be the same information - they will be the other party's name. Is there a way that all the fields that will have the other party's name in it will self-populate? (I want to type it in the first one and have the rest fill.)

The other 5% are individual areas for different information.
Thanks
PL

 

[Ann Scharpf]

I have not done this myself but I know it is possible.
Look in the help under Forms. You will want to use the
exit macro. So, when someone exits the first field with
the data, Word will run a macro to populate the "cloned
fields."

-----Original Message-----
I have a form for a general contract. I have made it a

locked template with many text form fields. 95% of the
fields are going to be the same information - they will be
the other party's name. Is there a way that all the
fields that will have the other party's name in it will
self-populate? (I want to type it in the first one and
have the rest fill.)

 

[Charles Kenyon]

In the field that will have the information entered, check the property to
"calculate on exit."

Assuming the name of that field is CompanyName, you would use the following
field to repeat the information elsewhere in the form.

{ Ref "CompanyName" \* CharFormat }

The field delimiters are inserted using Ctrl-F9 (in the unprotected form).
Once a field has been inserted, press F9 to update it. Once the form is
protected, it will be updated automatically from then on whenever the
CompanyName field is changed.

What you are talking about is what Word calls an "online form." Check this
in help. For more about online forms, follow the links at
http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms or
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/FillinTheBlanks.htm especially Dian
Chapman's series of articles.

Hope this helps,
--

Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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I have a form for a general contract. I have made it a locked template

with many text form fields. 95% of the fields are going to be the same
information - they will be the other party's name. Is there a way that all
the fields that will have the other party's name in it will self-populate?
(I want to type it in the first one and have the rest fill.)