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| 429948 | 2006-02-13 09:27:00 | I was wondering if there is a way in Word for text that is entered in one place in a document to have that text automatically added to another part of the same document two or three times? Reason being that in our office we have a number of letters we need to produce in the same format but with different names and persons details and those details are repeated a number of times in each letter. If there was some way for word to 'automatically' enter the name in the 2 or 3 space3s as you type it out only one - this would be a great help! Any ideas anyone? Macros won't do the trick as you would spend more time setting one up than typing the name a few times. Any ideas? Tks Lance |
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| 429949 | 2006-02-13 10:01:00 | Ctrl H | Rob99 (151) | ||
| 429950 | 2006-02-13 18:56:00 | Mail Merge | pctek (84) | ||
| 429951 | 2006-02-13 22:50:00 | As Rob99 said, Edit... Replace is the simplest. Could use a dummy word "Xxxxxxxx" and save it in a DOT template file. | kingdragonfly (309) | ||
| 429952 | 2006-02-14 00:08:00 | Find/Replace is farly simple, but Mail Merge is made for exactly this purpose. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 429953 | 2006-02-14 10:30:00 | Lance: To "do this right", create a Word fill-in form. Here's the not-so-illiterate instructions: www.officearticles.com Here's the "extreme" tutorial: www.officearticles.com Now, once you've created the parts to fill in, suppose you have the "details" in a form field that you've bookmark-named as, well... "Details". You'll now create a cross-reference to that form field using the instructions here: www.officearticles.com .htm So, whatever you type into that "Details" form field, will ALSO appear wherever you create that cross reference. Be careful! It won't show up until you update the fields (everyone comes back and asks about that 'cause they kinda skip over that part of the article, which is so important). If you run into trouble, let me know. By the way, Graham L is right... that is... if you're creating multiple letters at a time. If you're just doing up one or two at a time, and you have no reason to retain the data you're typing in, then a fill-in form is the way to go, not mail merge. :) |
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