INCLUDETEXT field for protected forms

[emilyj]

Hi,

I know this issue has come up before, sorry to post it again, but I
can't find an answer! I've looked through the past postings and have
*almost* found the answer, but the solutions don't seem to work for me
(and the posters for the previous threads never replied to say if it
worked for them!), so I thought I'd ask again:

I've created some protected application forms, and would like a quick
way to gather the information from many Word forms into one location
later on. I know there is other software that can do this, but Word is
the easiest for us to use.

I thought a mailmerge would work, but from what I understand, the data
source must be in the form of a table, and I'm trying to do the
reverse: put information from Word docs into a table.

I've tried the INCLUDETEXT field option, but it doesn't work for me
for any form fields in another document, protected or not.

Looking through old posts for this usenet group, I found many
suggestions for running macros to update fields on entry and exit and
to update all fields in the document, but none of those work. I have
also checked the "Calculate on Exit" box in the formfield options box
-- this works for REF fields within the same document, but not for
INCLUDETEXT in others.

Has anyone confirmed that bookmarked formfields (protected or not) can
be used for the Includetext function?

Thanks!
Emily

 

[emilyj]

In case anyone is curious, I found the solution to my problem:

I wanted to link the content of a protected formfield to another
document.
First document = "Application Form",
Second document = "Application Details"
relevant formfield is bookmarked as = Name

I inserted the following into the document Application Details at the
relevant spot:

{ INCLUDETEXT "C:\\MyDocuments\\Application Form" Name\! }

The \! was the crucial part I was missing.
I had followed the suggestions of other posts in this usenet about
macros to Update fields on entry or exit or UpdateAll in the document,
but that had no impact, the field stayed blank. The key was to lock
the content of the formfield itself (not worry about updating the
other fields) with \!

Thanks anyway to anyone who considered answering!
Emily