Content Controls

[Office_user]

I’ve some content controls in my document. Can I reuse the data in those
content controls in other places inside the same document, without retyping
them? In other words, can I use a content control as a data source that can
be referred to and read by a field or something alike?

Thanks in advance

 

[Stefan Blom]

See if http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Mapped_Content_Control.htm does what you
want.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Another possibility: You can insert a bookmark surrounding the content
control, and then use Ref fields to repeat its contents elsewhere. And in a
Rich Text content control you can insert a bookmark surrounding only part of
the text (this isn't possible in a plain text content control). This will be
much simpler than mapping content controls to XML, but less robust because
bookmarks are easy to delete.

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[Office_user]

This was very helpful.. Thanks

See if http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Mapped_Content_Control.htm does what you
want.

 

[Office_user]

Thanks Freedman. This was my first thought also, but I wnated to make use of
content controls directly, and wanted a more robust way as you said.

Thanks a lot for your efforts and quick response

 

[Stefan Blom]

You are welcome.