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User Interface for Word
Is it possible to design a user interface that runs on top of Word to
generate documents? There are numerous, expensive Electronic Medical Record (EMR)applications that allow you to select items on a user interface that generate patient notes and reports. They don't provide a great deal of flexibility. I would like to design my own. Does Word have this capability? If not, is there another application that does? |
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User Interface for Word
I wouldn't try to design some kind of user interface on top of Word.
Although it might be possible, there are better ways of handling this. Why not let your application create the Word document? You could use the openxml sdk to generate documents. For an example see http://www.labo-dotnet.com/post/Crea...ML-20-SDK.aspx (this example was randomly taken from Google search results, there are dozens of others which are possibly as good or even better) Yves "pcm" wrote in message ... Is it possible to design a user interface that runs on top of Word to generate documents? There are numerous, expensive Electronic Medical Record (EMR)applications that allow you to select items on a user interface that generate patient notes and reports. They don't provide a great deal of flexibility. I would like to design my own. Does Word have this capability? If not, is there another application that does? |
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User Interface for Word
Why not simply create a template (or templates) - either as a protected
form. For help on creating protected forms, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...nTheBlanks.htm In order to use form fields in Word 2007, you will need to display the Developer tab (Office Button Word Options Popular Show the Developer tab in the Ribbon) and then use the Legacy Forms controls from the Legacy Tools palette in the Controls group on that tab. You will find those controls more accessible if you modify the ribbon as described at http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Classic%20Form%20Controls.htm or automated with a userform to collect the variable data - 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 -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "pcm" wrote in message ... Is it possible to design a user interface that runs on top of Word to generate documents? There are numerous, expensive Electronic Medical Record (EMR)applications that allow you to select items on a user interface that generate patient notes and reports. They don't provide a great deal of flexibility. I would like to design my own. Does Word have this capability? If not, is there another application that does? |
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