Listbox dynamically called in a word document

[Dirk]

Hello everyone,

for months i've been thinking on automating Word 2007.

I'll explain it in detail.

For my job, I need to make a lot of quotations every day,
offering computer hardware, services etc.. So each time
I need to use the same text snippets over and over, also
I need to insert all kind of images into my word document
serving as illustrations to the quoted items. So every time
I insert an image keep on writing all kinds of stuff.

This is however rather foolish as all quotes are basically
the same. So I'm 'dreaming' of writing this program to
be able to insert snippets of text I use a lot into the
word document I'm working on. So, what would be VERY
convenient is having a way to call a list box or combo box
on the fly, at the position I'm working on in the word
document. Exactly as one would call the auto complete function
in Visual Studio (Alt + SpaceBar). In this list box I'd
like to have two, or three fields displayed : short description
of the snippet, long description, preview of data.

Obviously these snippets would be stored in a Ms Sql database
as BLOB data, as most of the snippets are HTML or RTF.

While I'm asking, some kind of tree view would be interesting
to show groups of related data.

I hope, guess other people are struggling also with this
idea.

TIA

Dirk

 

[old man]

Hi,

Have you explored the use of the "Autotext" feature of MS Word? Its built in
and can contain the description of the Autotext entry and has a preview box
(not really large but something) on the the bottom. Autotext can contain
text, formatted text, entire formatted sections of document and grahics. The
list of available entires are sorted.

A good way to use Autotext is via a Word Template that can contain all the
autotext entries for your group and users can attach the template to their
documents in which case the Autotext entries of the template would be added
to the built in autotext entries.

old man