Office Accounting Professional 2008 Template Problems

[james]

Hello,

I am trying to create an invoice template for Microsoft Office Accountign
2008 Professional, using Word 2007, and am running into the following problem:

When I drag XML elements from the invoice onto the page, they display as:

(Name of element - highlighted pink)[Name of element](Name of element -
highlighted pink)

If I type a space after this, it shortens the second highlighted pink
section, making it more like "()" (still highlighted pink). I can then type
words after this element, and everything shows up fine.

My problem is when I try and to this same thing in the header of the
document, it doesn't work. It displays as "[Name of element]" then whatever
else I type, instead of dynamically pulling the data value.

If I drag the XML element, and don't type a space after, it stays
"expanded", and then the data will come through in the header, but I need to
have text after the elements in the header, and simply dragging the items out
always seems to add a carriage return. When I try and just add a space, it
shrinks up the second pink section of the element, and it doesn't work
anymore.

I can even copy the exact text I have from the body of the page (that
correctly pulls the data) into the header, and it still doesn't display right
in the header.

I'm going insane. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[james]

So here's how I worked around this issue in case someone else runs into it:

I forgot to mention in the previous post that I was trying to add the XML
tags on top of an image that I had embedded in the header.
I was able to get this working by going to the "format picture" menu, then
the layout tab, and selecting "Behind text". Once I did that,
the XML tags I'd been fighting started coming through. I still don't quite
understand why, as before I did this, text was displaying on top
of the image just fine. It was just displaying as the literal label of the
XML tag (i.e., [Customer Name]), instead of the value of the
field (i.e., "Art Vandelay's Latex Company").