Re: Form text fields are disappearing during a merge to new docume

If all of your records appear on one page, you can do my workaround,
otherwise it would require one merge per record.
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"Trevor Drew" <TrevorDrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> We were trying to merge multiple records - about 8 per document - into a
> document that would contain a mix of filled in fields (from our data) and
> fields that the user would fill in. There must be the capability to write
> into text boxes as well as to check boxes. This is being done currently
> by
> printing a form and filling it in the old fashioned way. Even though the
> filled in form doesn't need to find its way back into a database, some
> users
> of the form thought it might be nice to have an electronic version. The
> users all have wireless laptops, but we didn't have the time to whip up a
> web
> form. The first need for it was this past Saturday. A quick modification
> of
> the existing Word document seemed like the way to go. The fact that
> drop-downs and check boses survived the merge gave me hope. I thought
> there
> might be some way to make the text boxes survive as well.
>
> Since then, I have experimented a bit with a macro to insert text form
> fields into the merged document in place of some text phrase that could be
> put in the master wherever we need a form field. Though a bit of a
> kludge,
> it could work.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> "Charles Kenyon" wrote:
>
>> As Doug said, the two features are not designed to work together.
>> However,
>> if you are using merge to fill in data from only one record, there is a
>> workaround. What, exactly, are you doing?
>> --
>> Charles Kenyon
>>
>> Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word
>>
>> Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
>> Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide
>>
>> See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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>>
>> "Trevor Drew" <Trevor Drew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:F4016B28-E355-4ACE-91F2-BCAAC063F59D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > We would like to create a form that has some merged information on it,
>> > as
>> > well as check boxes, dropdowns and form text fields. After the merge
>> > to a
>> > new document, we would save it as a template and turn on document
>> > protection
>> > with a password. The recipient could then fill in the form, using the
>> > check
>> > boxes, drop-downs and text fields. However, when I merge the document,
>> > the
>> > form text fields disappear, whereas the check boxes and dropsowns
>> > don't.
>> > How
>> > can I make the form text fields survive the merge? We are at Word 2003
>> > SP1.
>>
>>
>>


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