Newbie: Need advice on how to start creating a Meeting Minutes doc

[lwoods]

I want to dynamically create a "Meeting Minutes" document. I have a sample
document, but I don't know whether a Word Form is the answer or not. Most
of the doc consists of short paragraphes, like:

"The meeting was attended by blah, blah, blah (might wrap to 2-3 lines)"

"Blah requested etc., (lots of paragraphs describing the topics of the
meeting)"

Anyway, I think that you get the picture. The thing that I DON'T want is
for the doc to look like a "form" but instead like a letter.

Any ideas would be much appreciated...

TIA,

Larry Woods

P.S. I am proficient in VBA so programming this should not be a problem...if
I know where to start.

 

[Anne Troy]

I can't imagine how you could need more than just a couple of styles to do
this, Larry. Just use a Heading 1 for each new phase of the meeting, and
Body text for the items. I don't know if you need them numbered or not. You
could also create autotext (and therefore it must be a template if you're
using it on multiple PCs) that puts everyone's names in, then delete those
that didn't show (if more show than not). If you have specific headings, you
can have them pre-typed already. And you can use click and type fields as
placeholders for the items. References you might find of interest:
http://www.officearticles.com/word/create_a_style_in_microsoft_word.htm
http://www.officearticles.com/word/using_autotext_in_microsoft_word.htm
http://www.officearticles.com/word/easy_guided_forms_in_microsoft_word.htm
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Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

 

[lwoods]

Lot's of good info, Anne. One thing that I forgot to put in the request was
that this Word document will be filled from VBA, using an Access database as
the source for the various fields (the Access part could change in the
future, but in any case the Word document will be created via VBA input.

The problem that I have with VBA is that I don't know how to reference the
various areas of the template that I will use as my...well, template!

Do you have any examples?

Thanks

Larry

 

[Anne Troy]

Sorry... I cannot imagine why you'd do that... But, consider mail merge or
ask the Access developer group.
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Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

lwoods was telling us:
lwoods nous racontait que :

Lot's of good info, Anne. One thing that I forgot to put in the
request was that this Word document will be filled from VBA, using an
Access database as the source for the various fields (the Access part
could change in the future, but in any case the Word document will be
created via VBA input.
The problem that I have with VBA is that I don't know how to
reference the various areas of the template that I will use as
my...well, template!
Do you have any examples?

Thanks

Larry

For a simple example, see:
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/interdev/GetDataFromDB.htm


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Salut!
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Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
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Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org

 

[lwoods]

Merci!

Larry Woods

lwoods was telling us:
lwoods nous racontait que :


For a simple example, see:
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/interdev/GetDataFromDB.htm


--
Salut!
_______________________________________
Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
(e-mail address removed)
Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org

 

[lwoods]

Hi, Anne,

You are kidding, of course? It's called "automation!" You use a computer
to help you in your work. See, you take data that has been accumulated via
a different program, then use this data to populate a Word document. You
might get some help in this concept by requesting information from the
Access group.

You might also check out Jean-Guy's helpful response. This seems to be more
in keeping with the purpose of a newsgroup. Too much time is spent
downplaying others requests instead of either (1) helping others, or (2)
just keeping quiet.

Thanks for you input...

Larry Woods

 

[Anne Troy]

Sorry, Larry. I'm a VBA project manager. What I couldn't imagine is storing
meeting minutes in a database. Sounds like storage overkill, but hey...I'm
no meeting minutes manager.
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Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com