Plural/Possessive Options

[JeanneJo]

I am creating a user form court pleading containing plaintiff and defendant
names - sometimes singular parties, sometimes more than one. I have a text
box for the user to fill in Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, Defendant or Defendants.
Throughout the pleading there are references to the parties, and depending
on whether they are individual or multiple parties, their references can be
Plaintiffs' (Plaintiff's) or Defendants' (Defendant's). Is there a way to
determine where to put the apostrophe, depending on how the user identifies
the party in the original text box, or do I need to do a second text box for
the user to identify the possessive form of the party identification?

Long explanation - sure there's a simpler way of describing what I'm looking
for, but this is the best I came up with.

Thanks very much for any help you can provide.

JeanneJo.

 

[JeanneJo]

Never mind - I figured that one out on my own.

 

[Fumei2 via OfficeKB.com]

Probably, but we would need to know a bit more.

Are these entries inserted by your userform? Are they there already and you
need to adjust them - Plaintiff's into Plaintiffs' for example?

 

[Fumei2 via OfficeKB.com]

Just as a thought...

Perhaps you could identify wether to use singular or plural by setting a
DOCVARIABLE.

If a plural term is entered on the userform, then your code could go through
the document changing all exiting singular into plural.

Probably, but we would need to know a bit more.

Are these entries inserted by your userform? Are they there already and you
need to adjust them - Plaintiff's into Plaintiffs' for example?

I am creating a user form court pleading containing plaintiff and defendant
names - sometimes singular parties, sometimes more than one. I have a text

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JeanneJo.

 

[JeanneJo]

Thanks, Fumei2, for responding. Plaintiff and Defendant are bookmarks which
are completed by way of text boxes in a userform; since it's never consistent
whether there's 1 or more entities in a lawsuit, I leave the boxes blank and
the users type in whatever applies to the current case.

I experimented a little: created a second set of bookmarks for the
singular/plural for Plaintiff and Defendant; then tried out an If and Then
statement: depending on what the user types in to the userform for the party
designations, where appropriate the same word - only singular or possessive -
would be inserted at the second bookmark location(s) as needed in the
document (if the user typed Plaintiffs, then throughout the document, where
required, the word Plaintiffs' appears, without the user having to type into
another text box what looks like duplicate information, only the plural or
singular version of the word).

Although I'm certain there's 10,000 better ways of doing this, for some
strange reason my If and Then statements seem to work. Now if I could only
get the references to work with the bookmarks. I'm struggling with those now
- some work, some don't, so the project goes on.

Again, appreciate your reply.

JeanneJo.