Click Here To Insert...

[Courtenay S. Bowman]

Within the templetes in Microsoft Word, there are lines of
text that you can click on to add additional information
and delete the default text, i.e. it says [Click here and
type recipient's address]. How do you set that up with
text of your own? i.e. to say [Click here to insert item]

 

[Shauna Kelly]

Hi Courtenay

Open the template you want to work on. (That means File > Open and navigate to the template to open the template itself.)

Type ctrl-F9. Within the curly braces, type something like the following: macrobutton nomacro [Click here and type recipient's
address]

Press F9 to hide the codes and display your text.

What this does is:
macrobutton - tells Word that this is a button and you want to run a macro when someone clicks it

nomacro - the name of the macro you want to run. Except that, you don't want to run a macro. Word doesn't mind being given any text
at all here, whether or not you have a macro of this name to run

Click here and type ... - the text you want to apppear.

More info at http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/UsingMacroButton.htm

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
Melbourne, Australia