Hyperlinking to a fill in form

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Jo Hunter

When I use a hyperlink in Word to another Word document
which has been set up with fill-in forms, the fill in do
not automatically appear, I have to select all and then
select F9 to have the form boxes appear?

If I go directly to the fill-in form in Word the form
boxes appear.

Is there any way that I can get the hyperlink to the Word
document to open as the fill in form?

Kind regards
Jo Hunter
 
Hi Jo,

Fillin fields normally only appear "by themselves" if you
create a new document from a template (*.dot file). A
hyperlink always OPENS a file; it won't create a new
document from a template. So the literal answer to your
question is, no, you can't get a hyperlink to display the
Fillin fields.

What you could do is use a Macrobutton field, format it
like a hyperlink, and link it to a macro that creates a new
document from the template. The code is quite simple:

Sub CreateNewDoc()
Documents.Add "C:\Path name\myTemplate.dot"
End Sub
When I use a hyperlink in Word to another Word document
which has been set up with fill-in forms, the fill in do
not automatically appear, I have to select all and then
select F9 to have the form boxes appear?

If I go directly to the fill-in form in Word the form
boxes appear.
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Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update
Jan 24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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