Using Fields

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Hello Everyeone,

Glad I found this forum!!

I have a few questions regarding fields. Here is what I'd like to
accomplish:

I have a "form" letter that I want to send out to different people from
time to time. The doc is not a mail merge, and there is no outside
data source.

I'd like to have a field where I can enter a numeric amount, and
another field that calculates a total based on the numeric amount
entered times a static number. That resultant field will be used
several places in the document.

I've never really used fields before other than inserting date and
time, and page numbers.. so if any response could be as specific as
possible (i.e. how to create a new field (if that's what I need to
do)).

Thanks so much!!

Christopher Rees
 
You could employ an Ask field eg

{ASK Amount "Enter amount" \d 0}

or a Fillin field and bookmark it with the name (say) amount

and wherever you want the result use a formula field eg

{=({REF Amount} * 10)}

where 10 is your static number.


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Hi Christopher,

The best way to do this will depend upon how much you need to edit the text
in the letter each time that you send it out. If you do not need to change
it other than by entering the details of the person to whom it is addressed
and things like the amount, then you could use formfields. You can have a
calculated formfield to display the result of the calculation of the number
that is entered times the static number and in the other locations in the
letter, you can use cross references to the text of the bookmark that is
assigned to the calculation formfield.

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