Document Templates

[Pyrite]

Hi,

I use quite a lot of standard letters at work and am slowly converting them
to templates as I generally need to save each copy that I send but still need
a blank original. I have done this with fill in fields that prompt me for
information when I open the letter. This way a new document is created with
the information in place.

When I have a mail merge on a document though and go to 'merge to printer'
it asks me for all the fill in fields again. Is there anyway around this?

Is creating a template with fill ins the best way of doing this?

I am using Word 2003 and my end goal is to have a 'blank' version of each
letter which when opened asks for the necessary info and then populates this
in a new document which can be saved without affecting the original 'blank'
version.

TIA

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP on news.microsoft.com]

A better way is to have userforms in your templates.

See the article "How to create a Userform" at:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms/CreateAUserForm.htm

or, see the following pages of fellow MVP Greg Maxey's website :

http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Create_and_employ_a_UserForm.htm

http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Populate_UserForm_ListBox.htm


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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com