about letters

[zecreven]

Hello,

I am having some difficulties with Microsoft Word 2003. I want to
create a document template and every time i open template, I want it to
inform me to show the places that I have to change and I will save it
as a word document. Actually my point is, I have a letter and whenever
i need to send it to someone, I need to change some words like name
field, address field, etc... however, I am sick of looking through all
the letter everytime and finding them and changing them. Is there
anything that ms word can help me to make this process less painless?


Thx for your answers already now

 

[ausongbird]

What you actually need is to set this up as a merge document with merge
fields in those places which require filling in. Then you simply place
the correct information in the fields of a table in a second document
and tell it to merge. That's much simpler than learning to do it the
way you're proposing. Can be done but you have to set up fields that
ask for input.

Use your Word help system and look up merge for a better description of
what merge does.