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2730	1999-08-19 02:00:00	Ok here's a problem - can you relieve my ignorance on the following: Using Office 97 , Word 97 - I have a word doc I use as a 'booking form memo' used when we organise a boat charter for a client. This is set out as a table and I fill in the relevant cells for the clients name/ address/ phone/ date of booking/ times/ menu chosen etc. (I have this set out as a table simply so that it looks neat on the screen.) I 'Save As' using the booking date as the file name. Ok - what I want to do is automate the retyping of certain client and charter details into 1) my standard invoice doc 2) my standard catering order form doc and 3) my monthly planner table doc I thought I could have my initial booking form doc with page 2 being invoice doc, and page 3 being catering order doc - and then set up a macro to copy/paste, copy/paste from the booking form doc to the standard invoice and catering order form etc once I had filled in the clients details. BUT it won't do it.. ! In record macro - it won't let me select/copy from my 'booking form' doc Sooo - thought maybe I should approach it as a Find/Replace task. It sort of works once but then won't let me repeat the operation if a client detail needs updating. And this won't open and auto update my monthly planner table doc I feel this is fairly simple word processing task - and may be called something in Help that I don't know. I don't use Excel much but should I be trying to do this all in excel files?? Thanks Toni	Guest (0)
2731	2002-08-28 13:31:00	Hi...Try using a combination of book marks and cross references to automate text - which are based on hidden field type macro codes... First bookmark (Insert or edit Menu) your individual text entries (called a field code) in your first page(Booking Form)which I think you have to assign a name by over typing the highlighted text for easier recognition later. Then scroll down to where you want that book marked text to repeat. Go to Insert Cross Reference and then select bookmark text (or similar) and click on the assigned name(s)that you may have assigned to insert the field code. This codes a reoccurrence of that text. Repeat this procedure throughout for each repeated entry required from your bookmarks. I think this produces the field codes which may be visible in brackets and you hide them by pressing Control or Alt F9. Save, Close, Open,then enter text in your first page which should hopefully repeat it self throughout (or I think you press Control-A to select, then F9 to upate the cross-reference fields). To view bookmarks go to tools Options to turn on View bookmarks (it's there somewhere)...There are other keys quickly navigate to the hidden codes..F9 to go foward, and shift F9 to go back, etc... This plugs in plenty of codes but I have found it quick for some of my documents...Hope I have remembered correctly.. and hopethis helps !	Kahawai_Chaser (166)
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