MS Word Forms

[Alex Andrenacci]

I've created a form which is being completed by multiple
users. How could I combine the data from 200+ documents
so that I can analyse the information.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Set them up to save only data. Word is not well suited for data analysis /
manipulation.
Excel?
Access?
a statistical package?

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For more on online forms, check help and the links at <URL:
http://www.addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms> especially Dian
Chapman's series of articles.

Hope this helps,
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory:
<URL: http://addbalance.com/word/index.htm>

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide)
<URL: http://addbalance.com/usersguide/index.htm>

See also the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Alex,

I've created a form which is being completed by multiple
users. How could I combine the data from 200+ documents
so that I can analyse the information.

I take it these documents already exist? You can use VBA to
open them (put them all in a single folder then loop
through the folder's contents, for example), then go
through the form fields, read the information and write it
to the database.

I wrote an article about this a whle back. Unfortunately,
it's no longer available on-line. But it is on a CD that
can be ordered from the publisher. You'll find information
on my website, if you're interested.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update
Sep 30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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