Updating text from one textbox to another-How?

[Sam Lewis]

Hi

Is there some way to automatically update text written in one textbox to
another? Within the same document I wish to create a number of individual
text boxes such that when I type in any one of them the same text will also
be automatically placed in a combined 'master' textbox. I do this now by
copying and pasting.I found out how to make text "spill over" from one
textbox to another (when the first one is full) but this is not what I want.
Thanks
Sam

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Repeating_Data.htm, but note that you may
require a table or frame rather than a text box to do this.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Sam Lewis]

Yes thanks that works using field codes, Text form field with{REF
name_of_field}placed throughout document.It works within frames but not
textboxes.Basically what is a frame and how does it differ to a text box
(they look very similar)

Thanks
Sam

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Text boxes are "drawing objects" (they're in the drawing layer), so Word
can't "see" any text that is in them. Frames, although they are in the text
layer, can have text wrapped around them (but not behind or in front of
them).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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