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Old March 17th, 2009, 11:23 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
Oldkleebs
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Default Auto Fill help

I am trying to set up something along these lines in Word 2003 and am not
honestly sure of even where to start. Basically I have a word document that
has fields that need to be autofilled. The kicker is that I need to have
some sort of system where I type in an identifier number which pulls info
from and excel sheet attached to that number and that info autofills the
fields in the word doc. Is this something I can do or am I going to need an
entire different program? My boss thinks I am able to do this with the word
system we have, but Im walking in the dark right now. Any help is greatly
appreciated
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Old March 18th, 2009, 03:17 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
Jay Freedman
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Default Auto Fill help

What you propose can be done with Word (and Excel, working together). It will
require custom programming of a macro -- it can't be done just with the commands
and buttons available in the programs. Unfortunately, if you've never written a
macro before, this is not a good place to start.

If you want to get some background, try reading some of these articles:

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...csIn15Mins.htm

articles on forms and automation:
http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=22
http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=46
http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=119

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/InterD...XLFromWord.htm
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/InterD...ordWithDAO.htm


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On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:23:00 -0700, Oldkleebs
wrote:

I am trying to set up something along these lines in Word 2003 and am not
honestly sure of even where to start. Basically I have a word document that
has fields that need to be autofilled. The kicker is that I need to have
some sort of system where I type in an identifier number which pulls info
from and excel sheet attached to that number and that info autofills the
fields in the word doc. Is this something I can do or am I going to need an
entire different program? My boss thinks I am able to do this with the word
system we have, but Im walking in the dark right now. Any help is greatly
appreciated

 




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