Auto Fill help

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Oldkleebs

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
 
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/MacrosVBA/VBABasicsIn15Mins.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/InterDev/ControlXLFromWord.htm
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/InterDev/XLToWordWithDAO.htm


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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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