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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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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 -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. 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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