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Word Template Integration With AD
Hopefully someone will have an idea of how to do what I'm trying to do. We
use custom templates for MS Word 2003. The templates contain user names so when creating a letter, we can populate the info (address, etc) automaticatically once a name is selected. The problem is that we have to manually edit the Names.doc file everytime we have a new user or name change, etc. Is there any way to get the info to be pulled directly from Active Directory so everytime a change is made in AD, it is also made in the template file? Thanks in advance for any replies received. |
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Word Template Integration With AD
Yes that is possible, with code. We create such templates for our clients.
Try asking this in the VBA/Macro group instead. Best regards Malin D Office consultant/Trainer "joefox" wrote: Hopefully someone will have an idea of how to do what I'm trying to do. We use custom templates for MS Word 2003. The templates contain user names so when creating a letter, we can populate the info (address, etc) automaticatically once a name is selected. The problem is that we have to manually edit the Names.doc file everytime we have a new user or name change, etc. Is there any way to get the info to be pulled directly from Active Directory so everytime a change is made in AD, it is also made in the template file? Thanks in advance for any replies received. |
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Word Template Integration With AD
Thanks for the reply. Sorry for my ignorance, but I'm new on here. Where is
the VBA group? "Malin D" wrote: Yes that is possible, with code. We create such templates for our clients. Try asking this in the VBA/Macro group instead. Best regards Malin D Office consultant/Trainer "joefox" wrote: Hopefully someone will have an idea of how to do what I'm trying to do. We use custom templates for MS Word 2003. The templates contain user names so when creating a letter, we can populate the info (address, etc) automaticatically once a name is selected. The problem is that we have to manually edit the Names.doc file everytime we have a new user or name change, etc. Is there any way to get the info to be pulled directly from Active Directory so everytime a change is made in AD, it is also made in the template file? Thanks in advance for any replies received. |
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Word Template Integration With AD
The simplest means of doing this would be to store the addresses etc in an
Outlook contacts list and set that list as an Outlook address book. You can then call the contacts from that address book in Word using a macro to place the data - there are examples at http://www.gmayor.com/Macrobutton.htm An alternative would be to populate a table with your names and addresses and create a macro to read the table and display the information in a userform and apply the selected data to the document. For the basics, see Word MVP FAQ - Userforms http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms.htm for a more in depth explanation, see http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Create_and...a_UserForm.htm I suppose that your current procedure is somewhat similar to this. Whether it is possible to access ActiveDirectory data directly I cannot say. I have no knowledge of its use. You could ask in a programming forum. You appear to have joined this news server via Microsoft's web forum. To access the vba forum look for the Word programming group. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "joefox" wrote in message ... Hopefully someone will have an idea of how to do what I'm trying to do. We use custom templates for MS Word 2003. The templates contain user names so when creating a letter, we can populate the info (address, etc) automaticatically once a name is selected. The problem is that we have to manually edit the Names.doc file everytime we have a new user or name change, etc. Is there any way to get the info to be pulled directly from Active Directory so everytime a change is made in AD, it is also made in the template file? Thanks in advance for any replies received. |
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