Form Field in Header

H

Hal

I have a form field (address) in a document that needs to appear in the
header on page 2 forward in my document.

How do I place a form field in the header?

Hal
 
C

CyberTaz

Sorry, Hal, but what you're asking isn't very clear. There's no such thing
as an "address" form field - Form Fields being those inserted from the Forms
toolbar: Text, Check Box & Drop-Down. Please provide a more detailed
description of your intent & specify which version of Word you're using.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac
 
H

Hal

The field just happens to be a physical street address. It's on a State of
Texas housing inspection form and needs to appear at the top of pages 2
through X for each page beyond where the address initially appears in the
form field on page 1.

I'm using the latest maintenance release of Word 2008.

Hal
 
E

Elliott Roper

Hal said:
The field just happens to be a physical street address. It's on a State of
Texas housing inspection form and needs to appear at the top of pages 2
through X for each page beyond where the address initially appears in the
form field on page 1.

I'm using the latest maintenance release of Word 2008.

Read the help for a "styleref" field. It is just what you need
 
H

Hal

Hmmm. Nothing in Word's internal help file for "styleref." I didn't find
anything at microsoft.com/mac, either.
 
J

John McGhie

Yeah: I sent them a nice fat rough pineapple about that.

The idea was to make the UI "self-documenting". The help text is in the
"Insert field" dialog. Sadly, that's trivial to the point of trite, and
they never understood that it would be missed.

I always send users off to the Word 2003 online help, which IS complete,
with examples, and expansive...

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/FX100649261033.aspx

If you search for the StyleRef Field there, you get:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HP051861931033.aspx

Admittedly, you have to go in through the table of contents because for some
reason, StyleRef has been left out of the Search index (as it has in the
product as well...)

But the Help is there :)

Cheers

Sorry Hal, I'm still using Word 2004 when I can be bothered with Office
at all. My Mac shuddered in disbelief when I fired up Word to check.
I can't believe they ripped it out of 2008.
....Or maybe I can.


Try help on "Insert the chapter number and title in header or footer"
or perhaps "field codes".

Or ask specifically about styleref here again. Maybe there is somebody
who has not yet reverted to 2004 who can help.

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P

Peter Jamieson

I always send users off to the Word 2003 online help, which
IS complete,
with examples, and expansive...

It's not bad, but it isn't really complete. For one thing,
being a Windows version of Word it doesn't cover some Mac specials, namely

CONTACT (inserts an entry from the Mac Office Address book.
I wonder though whether anyone uses this?)
PLACEHOLDER (I think this is the field whose VBA ID number
conflicts with ADDRESSBLOCK, which is not yet implemented on Mac. Lucky
VBA went, at least temporarily in Word 2008 and is irrelevant for XML!)
SUBSCRIBER (OK, I have no idea if the publish/subscribe mechanism even
exists on MAC OSX)

However, I suppose we have to assume that those fields will disappear
anyway in the first OOXML-compliant version of Mac Word as AFAIK they
aren't mentioned in the spec (even as "legacy" fields), there doesn't
seem to be any leeway for having fields that are not mentioned, and I
doubt if there is a quick mechanism for getting them in.

Peter Jamieson

http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk
 
C

Clive Huggan

Also, an article on the subject, in a Word document that itself has a
Styleref header as an example, plus some related useful information, is
"Header that shows the wording of the chapter heading", starting on page 142
of some notes on the way I use Word for the Mac, titled "Bend Word to Your
Will", which are available as a free download from the Word MVPs' website
(http://word.mvps.org/Mac/Bend/BendWordToYourWill.html).

[Note: "Bend Word to your will" is designed to be used electronically and
most subjects are self-contained dictionary-style entries. If you decide to
read more widely than the item I've referred to, it's important to read the
front end of the document -- especially pages 3 and 5 -- so you can select
some Word settings that will allow you to use the document effectively.]

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from the Americas and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
====================================================
 
C

CyberTaz

Damn!!! That's the first place I looked - How'd I miss it? I guess I'll have
to do some re-reading :)

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



Also, an article on the subject, in a Word document that itself has a
Styleref header as an example, plus some related useful information, is
"Header that shows the wording of the chapter heading", starting on page 142
of some notes on the way I use Word for the Mac, titled "Bend Word to Your
Will", which are available as a free download from the Word MVPs' website
(http://word.mvps.org/Mac/Bend/BendWordToYourWill.html).

[Note: "Bend Word to your will" is designed to be used electronically and
most subjects are self-contained dictionary-style entries. If you decide to
read more widely than the item I've referred to, it's important to read the
front end of the document -- especially pages 3 and 5 -- so you can select
some Word settings that will allow you to use the document effectively.]

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from the Americas and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
====================================================


I started to write this out myself then suddenly thought "There's got to be
a better way!". Thus...

http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/StyleRef.htm#FormField

It's written specifically using WinWord but easy enough to follow. Perhaps
this will give you what you need :)

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac
 
J

John McGhie

Hi Peter:

Yeah, but punters looking for "Field-level" Help in Word are probably not
all that interested in the Mac-only non-standard stuff.

There's very little of it, and it tends to be utterly irrelevant when using
Word at work :)

As soon as one starts earning their living with Word, I find it pays big
dividends to confine one's activities to only the stuff that is guaranteed
to work exactly the same on the other side. Everything else is just a bug
waiting to bite me...

Anyway, if you want decent help for Mac Word, the 2003 help is all there is
:)

Cheers


It's not bad, but it isn't really complete. For one thing,
being a Windows version of Word it doesn't cover some Mac specials, namely

CONTACT (inserts an entry from the Mac Office Address book.
I wonder though whether anyone uses this?)
PLACEHOLDER (I think this is the field whose VBA ID number
conflicts with ADDRESSBLOCK, which is not yet implemented on Mac. Lucky
VBA went, at least temporarily in Word 2008 and is irrelevant for XML!)
SUBSCRIBER (OK, I have no idea if the publish/subscribe mechanism even
exists on MAC OSX)

However, I suppose we have to assume that those fields will disappear
anyway in the first OOXML-compliant version of Mac Word as AFAIK they
aren't mentioned in the spec (even as "legacy" fields), there doesn't
seem to be any leeway for having fields that are not mentioned, and I
doubt if there is a quick mechanism for getting them in.

Peter Jamieson

http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

--
Don't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/

Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac
Sydney, Australia. mailto:[email protected]
 
C

Clive Huggan

Well, I'll confess, Bob -- I only looked (Find => Styleref) because I
thought it was something I had left out. So you're not the only one who was
surprised...

Cheers,

Clive
======

Damn!!! That's the first place I looked - How'd I miss it? I guess I'll have
to do some re-reading :)

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



Also, an article on the subject, in a Word document that itself has a
Styleref header as an example, plus some related useful information, is
"Header that shows the wording of the chapter heading", starting on page 142
of some notes on the way I use Word for the Mac, titled "Bend Word to Your
Will", which are available as a free download from the Word MVPs' website
(http://word.mvps.org/Mac/Bend/BendWordToYourWill.html).

[Note: "Bend Word to your will" is designed to be used electronically and
most subjects are self-contained dictionary-style entries. If you decide to
read more widely than the item I've referred to, it's important to read the
front end of the document -- especially pages 3 and 5 -- so you can select
some Word settings that will allow you to use the document effectively.]

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from the Americas and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
====================================================


I started to write this out myself then suddenly thought "There's got to be
a better way!". Thus...

http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/StyleRef.htm#FormField

It's written specifically using WinWord but easy enough to follow. Perhaps
this will give you what you need :)

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



On 2/9/09 4:52 PM, in article C5B601B5.2FEF9%[email protected], "Hal"

Hmmm. Nothing in Word's internal help file for "styleref." I didn't find
anything at microsoft.com/mac, either.


On 2/9/09 9:54 AM, in article 090220091554153393%[email protected], "Elliott

The field just happens to be a physical street address. It's on a State
of
Texas housing inspection form and needs to appear at the top of pages 2
through X for each page beyond where the address initially appears in the
form field on page 1.

I'm using the latest maintenance release of Word 2008.

Read the help for a "styleref" field. It is just what you need
 
P

Peter Jamieson

Yeah, I certainly agree with your general approach.

Other than that, since I've never succeeded in persuading Microsoft to
do a "complete" field reference, I'll have to carry on making my own -
the sooner it becomes completely unnecessary, the better IMO :)

Peter Jamieson

http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk
 

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