how to ask user for a variable and print it throughout the word doc

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Erik Witkop - 07 May 2008 21:02 GMT

So I am a php/perl person and I really don't know how to work within
the MSword confines. Can someone help me come up with an attack for
this problem.

Here is what I am looking to do:

A user opens a word document (office 2007). A popup window asks for a
few responses such as

customer_name
engineer_name
etc...

Then the script runs and populates the appropriate fields with that
given information. Now I guess it can be a 'find and replace' but if
there is something more elegant such as a variable etc... I am all
ears.

Thanks in advance,

Erik Witkop

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CyberTaz - 07 May 2008 21:48 GMT

Well, you've stumbled into the Mac Word group, Erik, so anything we might do
for such a situation probably would not be the same in 2007:-) Have a look
at the Windows groups on this page to get what you need

http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/FlyoutOverview.mspx

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

On 5/7/08 4:02 PM, in article
c23f12e1-92e9-4f35-8210-f141eacf6c57@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com, "Erik
Witkop" <ewitkop@gmail.com> wrote:

> So I am a php/perl person and I really don't know how to work within
> the MSword confines. Can someone help me come up with an attack for
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>
> Erik Witkop

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John McGhie - 08 May 2008 06:44 GMT

Hi Erik:

Look up ASK and FILLIN field in the Help. That's what you need.

Ignore the references to mail merge: they can be used in any context you
like. Use them to populate bookmarks, then insert cross-references to the
bookmarks wherever you want the text the user filled in to appear.

For a critical application, look up "User Forms". These enable you to build
your own dialogs and perform data validation.

And as Bob says, you're in the wrong forum :-) The nice folks in the Word
2007 group will help you from here...

Cheers

On 8/05/08 6:02 AM, in article
c23f12e1-92e9-4f35-8210-f141eacf6c57@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com, "Erik
Witkop" <ewitkop@gmail.com> wrote:

> So I am a php/perl person and I really don't know how to work within
> the MSword confines. Can someone help me come up with an attack for
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>
> Erik Witkop

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