Hyperlinking to a fill in form

[Jo Hunter]

When I use a hyperlink in Word to another Word document
which has been set up with fill-in forms, the fill in do
not automatically appear, I have to select all and then
select F9 to have the form boxes appear?

If I go directly to the fill-in form in Word the form
boxes appear.

Is there any way that I can get the hyperlink to the Word
document to open as the fill in form?

Kind regards
Jo Hunter

 

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Jo,

Fillin fields normally only appear "by themselves" if you
create a new document from a template (*.dot file). A
hyperlink always OPENS a file; it won't create a new
document from a template. So the literal answer to your
question is, no, you can't get a hyperlink to display the
Fillin fields.

What you could do is use a Macrobutton field, format it
like a hyperlink, and link it to a macro that creates a new
document from the template. The code is quite simple:

Sub CreateNewDoc()
Documents.Add "C:\Path name\myTemplate.dot"
End Sub

When I use a hyperlink in Word to another Word document
which has been set up with fill-in forms, the fill in do
not automatically appear, I have to select all and then
select F9 to have the form boxes appear?

If I go directly to the fill-in form in Word the form
boxes appear.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update
Jan 24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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