how to ask user for a variable and print it throughout the word doc

[Erik Witkop]

So I am a php/perl person and I really don't know how to work within
the MSword confines. Can someone help me come up with an attack for
this problem.

Here is what I am looking to do:

A user opens a word document (office 2007). A popup window asks for a
few responses such as

customer_name
engineer_name
etc...

Then the script runs and populates the appropriate fields with that
given information. Now I guess it can be a 'find and replace' but if
there is something more elegant such as a variable etc... I am all
ears.

Thanks in advance,

Erik Witkop

 

[CyberTaz]

Well, you've stumbled into the Mac Word group, Erik, so anything we might do
for such a situation probably would not be the same in 2007 Have a look
at the Windows groups on this page to get what you need

http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/FlyoutOverview.mspx

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

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Erik:

Look up ASK and FILLIN field in the Help. That's what you need.

Ignore the references to mail merge: they can be used in any context you
like. Use them to populate bookmarks, then insert cross-references to the
bookmarks wherever you want the text the user filled in to appear.

For a critical application, look up "User Forms". These enable you to build
your own dialogs and perform data validation.

And as Bob says, you're in the wrong forum The nice folks in the Word
2007 group will help you from here...

Cheers

So I am a php/perl person and I really don't know how to work within
the MSword confines. Can someone help me come up with an attack for
this problem.

Here is what I am looking to do:

A user opens a word document (office 2007). A popup window asks for a
few responses such as

customer_name
engineer_name
etc...

Then the script runs and populates the appropriate fields with that
given information. Now I guess it can be a 'find and replace' but if
there is something more elegant such as a variable etc... I am all
ears.

Thanks in advance,

Erik Witkop

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