Automating a document -- Input fields

[Kamran]

Hello,
I'm making a form for a study. I would like it ask for a Study ID and other
info once, when the form is first used, to automatically add that info to
several places in the doc. But I don't want it to keep asking for the same
info every time the document is opened.
Thanks.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hello,
I'm making a form for a study. I would like it ask for a Study ID
and other info once, when the form is first used, to automatically
add that info to several places in the doc. But I don't want it to
keep asking for the same info every time the document is opened.
Thanks.

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

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Kamran]

Can anyone help with this?

 

[Jay Freedman]

Can anyone help with this?

If you couldn't find the answer I posted yesterday, then the odds are good that
you won't see this one, either. Oh well...

 

[Kamran]

As you can see, no posted answers appear in this thread.
Would you mind re-posting? Thanks.

 

[Kamran]

One thing I can add to this is that the fields I would like to populate are
in the header.
Thanks.

 

[Jay Freedman]

As you can see, no posted answers appear in this thread.
Would you mind re-posting? Thanks.

I did, and still do, see my reply -- but I'm using a newsreader to read and
reply in the NNTP-based newsgroup, which you're reading through Microsoft's
inferior web interface.

What I posted was:

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

I also see your additional post saying that "that the fields I would like to
populate are
in the header." The part of the Repeating_Data article titled "On Line Form"
will do that; just put the Ref fields into the header. You cannot put form
fields (the places where the data is originally entered) in a header, but
the references to them can go there.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Actually, in a protected form, you'll need to use StyleRef fields in the
header or footer because Ref fields there won't update unless you use a
macro to force them to. The article does address this as well, along with a
link to the relevant portion of
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/StyleRef.htm.

 

[Kamran]

Read it, that was helpful, thanks.

(It's strange that I still can't see your previous post. As you said, I'm
using Microsoft's website).