FILLIN or similar function for multiple fields

[ilLegalBeagle]

Ladies and gentlemen,

I am not a programmer... Having said that, I am hoping my question will
elicit some response that would steer me in the right direction, and I will
go read up on whatever basic programming information I need to master to
handle this task...

Here's the scenario...

I have a set of five documents (legal pleadings) that are used repeatedly.
There are certain finite items that change in the pleadings, but they
otherwise stay the same throughout. So, for example, I get a request to set
up a conservatorship for someone. The petition is structured in a very
organized way. I want to be able to create a .dot or other similar creature
that will allow me to automate the text edits throughout the form. So, for
the patient's name, where it appears 18 times throughout the document, I
would like some simple way to input that name ONCE, and the form would
populate that field in the remainder of the form. Likewise, there are a few
other items that could be automated in the form.

FILLIN lets you do this one field at a time, but when I began researching
how to populate multiple instances of the same field, I started running into
VBA programming discussions and online forms.

Is there a simple way to get the user-friendly prompts of the FILLIN
function and have it do multiple field population?

 

[Graham Mayor]

Start with http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Repeating_Data.htm

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[ilLegalBeagle]

Thanks, Graham... I had read that one briefly once, but it started getting
into the "programming" aspects that I mentioned. My question was intended to
see if there was a simple way to do it, but it appears that all roads lead to
Greg Maxey!!

I will simply force myself to learn the bookmark/refs/ask/userforms options
and make myself more competent in lightweight programming knowledge.

Thanks to all who respond to us dolts daily. Please consider my question
"answered," since Graham rightfully provided the same answer that is given on
the other hundreds of these questions all over the support newsgroups!

ilLegalBeagle