Stuart
This sounds like a fairly standard Fax Form requirement then. In Fact, if
you open Word and use File, New and select Templates on My Computer, under
Letters & Faxes tab, you'll find several examples of different FAX styles as
well as a Fax Wizard. (Personally), I'm not exactly massively keen on any of
them, but this will give you an idea of what can easily be achieved. But
maybe you would want to try out one of these until you get the hang of
creating your own templates in Word.
Really, what you need is to create a template with maybe the Company Logo
and Heading information in the first page Header, with disclaimer and other
fixed info in the first page Footer. On the subsequent pages, you can set
Word to use 'trimmed down' Headers and Footers.
One the first page, you can populate some of the fields such as the date and
time (use the CreateDate field), author, page number and number of pages so
that these are automatically filled when the user opens a new fax document
from the template. As the Header and Footer information is 'anchored', as
the user enters more text, it will eventually flow to a new page
automatically.
For more detailed information on creating templates see Creating a
Template - The Basics here:
http://word.mvps.org/Tutorials/index.htm
--
Terry Farrell - Word MVP
http://word.mvps.org/
: Thanks for your reply.
: Office 2003 (Small Business Edition) ..... apologies!
:
: Background:
: I have some knowledge of Excel and Excel VBA, but
: little as a user of Word, and next to nothing of Word
: VBA.
:
: In Excel, I cannot find a way to permit a user to create multiple text
: formats within a textbox, merged range etc
: ......except, perhaps, by reading in the body of the text,
: one character at a time...... a bit overkill, methinks !
:
: So I suspect my old Excel addin is now pretty much redundant (Sorry, I
meant
: 'archieved').
: In that addin, I populated the first qtr of the form with a combination of
: labels and textboxes, eg:
: LbFrom TbFrom where LbFrom was hardcoded with the value
: "From:" and TbFrom was free to edit by the user.........simple I know!
: The body of the FaxMessage itself was simply a textbox
: (TbFaxMessage).
: A similar combination of labels and textboxes was used in the 4th quarter
of
: the form.
:
: To answer your question:
: > It all depends on what you want to happen
: > when the centre editable section is full. '(?)'
: My answer:
: a) Preferably to allow the body of the message to expand
: into a subsequent page
: or
: b) Limit users to the central editable section (currently
: users do not require additional space....BUT they do have a
habit
: of changing their requirements <vbg>
:
: If it simplifies, the 4th qtr data could easily be accommodated after the
: first qtr, rather than at the end of the document.
:
: As a potential complication, there's a Company logo to accommodate in the
: top RH corner of the document
: (currently available as a GIF file).
:
: An approach would be much appreciated, anything
: more..... a welcome bonus.
:
: Regards and thanks.
:
: "TF" <terryfarrell%40%6d%73%6e%2ecom> wrote in message
: : > Possibly. It all depends on what you want to happen when the centre
: > editable
: > section is full. Also, which version of Word would help.
: >
: > --
: > Terry Farrell - Word MVP
: >
http://word.mvps.org/
: >
: > : > : Say I need a Master Fax template, where the entire fax
: > : will (for now) occupy one A4 portrait page, and where the 1st quarter
of
: > the
: > : page will be filled with "who it's from, who it's to, Company logo and
: > : address etc" and
: > : where the last quarter of the page will be filled with details
: > concerning
: > : such things as Internal and External distribution (who gets a copy,
: > etc).
: > :
: > : In principle, can I open the template and (assuming there's a way to
: > also
: > : lock/protect the top and bottom quarters)
: > : be able to enter text into the middle section of the page
: > : AND be able to freely format sections of that text (ie font, font
size,
: > : bold, underline etc)?
: > :
: > : Regards.
: > :
: > :
: > :
: >
: >
:
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