ref from bookmark in another doc

[george]

hi,

i have setup a table in one document with bookmarks. in
another a use the text in the bookmarked text using
includetext like so:

{INCLUDETEXT "G:\\Testing\\Table.doc" Name }, a
{INCLUDETEXT "G:\\Testing\\Table.doc" Sex }
{INCLUDETEXT "G:\\Testing\\Table.doc" Title },
makes {INCLUDETEXT "G:\\Testing\\Table.doc" Wage } an hour.

and it comes out to so:

Alex, a Male Square Dancer, makes $14.50 an hour.

my problem is that i want to do this with text form fields.
but when i try to use the bookmark from the text form
field, i get an empty bookmark in the document that uses
the include text. how do i make this work?

thanks,
george

 

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi George,

my problem is that i want to do this with text form fields.
but when i try to use the bookmark from the text form
field, i get an empty bookmark in the document that uses
the include text. how do i make this work?

I can't recall when I tried this last... Which version of
Word do you have?

You might also try selecting the formfield (in unprotected
mode, of course) and applying the bookmark name through
Insert/Bookmark. native Formfield bookmarks don't actually
surround the entire field, but are internal to the field. So
making sure the bookmark surrounds the entire field can help
with various problems...

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jan
24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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[george]

Cindy, your wonderful. It worked! The exlcimation switch
was all it needed. Thank you very much. Oh and By the way,
for anyone that might have been following this thread,
with the \! switch, you can use the bookmark that the
field makes. No need to manualy make another bookmark.

Thanks Cindy,
George