Text Form Fields - What is the benefit?

[Guest]

Hi - I'm currently working on a document using the developer - and inseting
text form fields - with the view to protect the document, and send to clients
for their completion. I just don't know how to manipulate the data that will
nnow be captued by the text form fields - do they import/export to excel? do
they summarise somehow? what is the benefit of using form protected fields?
Thanks!

 

[Dawn Crosier, Word MVP]

Here are some solutions which use form fields to aggregate the data. In most
of the solutions she used Access to store the results, but Excel could be
the "database" just as easily.
http://www.mousetrax.com/Consulting_Solutions.html

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Microsoft MVP
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Hi - I'm currently working on a document using the developer - and inseting
text form fields - with the view to protect the document, and send to
clients
for their completion. I just don't know how to manipulate the data that will
nnow be captued by the text form fields - do they import/export to excel? do
they summarise somehow? what is the benefit of using form protected fields?
Thanks!

 

[Guest]

Still doesn't help in connecting Word (and the form text fields) to Access /
Excel - do i need to convert it to xml?

 

[Dawn Crosier, Word MVP]

Nope -

Here's a set of tutorials, pay special attention to Part 5 which contains
the database connectivity.
Part 1: http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=22
Part 2: http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=46
Part 3: http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=119
Part 4: http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=127
Part 5: http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=136

Hope that helps...

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Dawn Crosier
Microsoft MVP
"Education Lasts a Lifetime"

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Still doesn't help in connecting Word (and the form text fields) to Access /
Excel - do i need to convert it to xml?

 

[Guest]

Great - thank you for the help - am looking through it now...