Word Merge using Feddema's Doc.Properties

[timnicholls]

Using Helen Feddema's VBA code to merge data to a Word document has worked well.

However there are some textboxes on the Word document that also have/need document properties and they do not work.

I can put the 'Name' document property on a document, and the same 'Name' document property in a textbox on the document and only the 'normal' one works.

Has any one used Feddemma's code to merge to Word?
Has anybody got textboxes to work?

Thanks
Tim

 

[MichaelRed]

not familiar w/ Helen Feddema's VBA. don't know where / how to find it.




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[timnicholls]

http://www.helenfeddema.com

The above link will take you to her site.

She also wrote Microsoft Access Version 2002 'Inside Out'

Her way of merging to Word in VBA was quite simple with the exception of my not being able to get the textbox thing to work.

ftp://ftp.helenfeddema.com/pub/code24.zip
will get you the way she does it in code.

Thanks Michael

Tim

 

[MichaelRed]

I (now / next) need to know where the " ... TextBox thing ..." is found / used




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[timnicholls]

Hi Mike,

I actually dropped Helen Fedemma a line and she clued me into the fact that textboxes are "Forms type" fields and her technique uses "Doc. Properties type" fields.

In short you delete the textboxes and do it another way.
You cannot place a Doc. Property in a textbox.

There ends that little plan!

If you D/L'd the file you will have to add your own textbox to one of the templates/save and try it out.

Tim

 

[MichaelRed]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ... mmmmmmmmmmmm ...


Interesting ... VERY interesting


I did have some 'difficulity' in following the overall process, particularly in how the overall forms "navigation" was intended. Also noted some (unlikely) hard-coded references to folders and files. Looked a bit like unto a dilletants' dilly-dallying to me, but then I was hoping to experience the "we learn by doing" phenom.

Some of the stuff looks interesting though, so I'm going to peruse the plethora of possabilities and see if what I like.

Some other pieces seem like they are either not well (completly) thought out or intended to be incomplete (perhaps to encourage soem dialog?).





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