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PurchasingBuyer 2/2/2005 11:25 AM PST
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  I am trying to create a template to enter business card requests. I am trying
to replicate the fields that are similar to "[Click here and type name]"
fields in the general templates, that came with Microsoft Word. I would like
to have a template where the user could click on an area and begin typing
their name, another area to type their title, etc ... I'm completely stuck on
this and got no response from my company's IT department.

Please help ....
 
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Jean-Guy Marcil 2/2/2005 1:19 PM PST
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  PurchasingBuyer was telling us:
PurchasingBuyer nous racontait que :

> I am trying to create a template to enter business card requests. I
> am trying to replicate the fields that are similar to "[Click here
> and type name]" fields in the general templates, that came with
> Microsoft Word. I would like to have a template where the user could
> click on an area and begin typing their name, another area to type
> their title, etc ... I'm completely stuck on this and got no response
> from my company's IT department.

I bet those IT people are too ashamed (or too proud?) to tell you they do
not know how... Which is OK, really, because they are not Word specialist
after all.

An easy way to do that is as follows:

Do CTRL-F9,
A pair of {} will appear,
Between the {} (Which must be inserted via CTRL-F9. and not pasted in from
here), type the following
MACROBUTTON nomacro Click here and type name
Repeat everywhere you want those fields,
When you are done, do ALT-F9 to toggle the field code display back to normal
text,
Select the first one,
Type the text,
Do F11 and the cursor will jump to the next field.

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PurchasingBuyer 2/3/2005 1:06 PM PST
   
  Thanks, that really helped and I was able to create the document!!!

"Jean-Guy Marcil" wrote:

> PurchasingBuyer was telling us:
> PurchasingBuyer nous racontait que :
>
> > I am trying to create a template to enter business card requests. I
> > am trying to replicate the fields that are similar to "[Click here
> > and type name]" fields in the general templates, that came with
> > Microsoft Word. I would like to have a template where the user could
> > click on an area and begin typing their name, another area to type
> > their title, etc ... I'm completely stuck on this and got no response
> > from my company's IT department.
>
> I bet those IT people are too ashamed (or too proud?) to tell you they do
> not know how... Which is OK, really, because they are not Word specialist
> after all.
>
> An easy way to do that is as follows:
>
> Do CTRL-F9,
> A pair of {} will appear,
> Between the {} (Which must be inserted via CTRL-F9. and not pasted in from
> here), type the following
> MACROBUTTON nomacro Click here and type name
> Repeat everywhere you want those fields,
> When you are done, do ALT-F9 to toggle the field code display back to normal
> text,
> Select the first one,
> Type the text,
> Do F11 and the cursor will jump to the next field.
>
> --
> Salut!
> _______________________________________
> Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
> jmarcilREMOVE@CAPSsympatico.caTHISTOO
> Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org
>
>
>
>
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill 2/2/2005 3:52 PM PST
   
  See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/UsingMacroButton.htm

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"PurchasingBuyer" <PurchasingBuyer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:968DD23C-973D-4ECD-A359-BB6CA12D0AA8@microsoft.com...
> I am trying to create a template to enter business card requests. I am
trying
> to replicate the fields that are similar to "[Click here and type name]"
> fields in the general templates, that came with Microsoft Word. I would
like
> to have a template where the user could click on an area and begin typing
> their name, another area to type their title, etc ... I'm completely stuck
on
> this and got no response from my company's IT department.
>
> Please help ....

 
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Graham Mayor 2/2/2005 10:37 PM PST
   
  For an alternative source see http://www.gmayor.com/Macrobutton.htm

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PurchasingBuyer wrote:
> I am trying to create a template to enter business card requests. I
> am trying to replicate the fields that are similar to "[Click here
> and type name]" fields in the general templates, that came with
> Microsoft Word. I would like to have a template where the user could
> click on an area and begin typing their name, another area to type
> their title, etc ... I'm completely stuck on this and got no response
> from my company's IT department.
>
> Please help ....


 
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