link to another file or alternate means of providing help/instruct

[RKF]

I created a Word 2007 form and would like to somehow include a file
containing instructions on how to use the form. Is there a way to link to or
call an ancillary file from a Word template/form? I would like the user to
be able to press a radio button to open and read the instructions, and then
dismiss that file without closing or modifying the template/form....

Thanks,

Ferg

 

[Graham Mayor]

The difficulty with this is that you cannot force remote users to run the
macros required and without them it is academic. There are two no-macro
options that may work. One is to use the help facility associated with the
form fields, the other rather deopends on what the form is to be used for.
If it is simply to collect data for processing, then you are only interested
in the content of the fields, so write the instructions on the form itself
and process the finished form when you get it back. See
http://www.gmayor.com/ExtractDataFromForms.htm

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[Robert Ferguson]

Graham,

Thanks for the feedback. I settled on creating a macro to open another Word document containing the instructions. Then I associated that macro to a keyboard sequence. The "User community" for the form is quite small and I can train them to use the sequence if/when they need a refresher on use of the form.

Now I am trying to figure a way of checking whether that ancillary file is open and closing it when the user is finished with the form. I suppose I could add some code to save the document created by the form and then simply close active documents, but I'm still playing with it.

Ferg



Graham Mayor wrote:

The difficulty with this is that you cannot force remote users to run
09-Feb-10

The difficulty with this is that you cannot force remote users to run th
macros required and without them it is academic. There are two no-macr
options that may work. One is to use the help facility associated with th
form fields, the other rather deopends on what the form is to be used for
If it is simply to collect data for processing, then you are only intereste
in the content of the fields, so write the instructions on the form itsel
and process the finished form when you get it back. Se
http://www.gmayor.com/ExtractDataFromForms.ht

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Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.or
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