Word merge document for customization

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I have an existing document in Word that I would like to be able to easily
customize. In other words, how do I mark the specific areas that will need
changing each time I need to customize, and will Word, or a Word merge make
this easy for me? For example, can I get it to prompt me with the areas that
need changing whenever I go back to it? Thanks for any help!
 
Is this document a mail merge main document or just an ordinary form
document? In any case, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/FillinTheBlanks.htm and especially
the forms tutorials by Dian Chapman that this article links to. If it is a
mail merge main document, you could create a template with MacroButton
fields (as described at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/UsingMacroButton.htm) and merge
fields; create a new document based on the template, fill in the MacroButton
fields, then save as the mail merge main document.

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

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Thanks for the link. It is just an ordinary doc, but now that I've gone
through and created the template, and created the macro (per option #4 on
Dian's link), I can't get it to run. How do I enable macros so that the
prompts will run?

~Sara
 
You may need to change the security level in Tools | Macro | Security. If
the template is stored in your user templates or workgroup templates folder,
and you enable "Trust all installed templates and add-ins" on the Trusted
Sources tab, you will not be prompted to enable macros.

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

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