Recent content by fishmahn

Thanks for the assistance Macropod. I didn't think there was any real way to do that programmatically because of unknown lengths. They'll just have to live with the name/address as the last text of a line, regardless of length, with the descriptive right below it. I showed them what I saw as...

Macropod, how does that align the description text underneath it? Mike.

That's what my IP address shows. And it's right - the main office is in IL. Mike.

It's not Illinois. We do business in a number of states, each one has its own regulations, and you have to be licensed or registered in every state you do business in. Also this business is a small, tiny corner of the larger insurance industry. There are no commercial applications like...

We use Word 2003. As for 'why'; it is a document that has been approved by a State Insurance department. I have some small amount of leeway for inserting merge fields but "(name and address of...)" must be below the line that I'm filling in with a mergefield. The document was approved that...

Then I 'll have to come up with some other solution. Anyone else have any ideas? - maybe a way to anchor a textbox? I thought they were only anchorable to a paragraph, but... Thanks for trying, Mike.

I think that would be acceptable as long as the paragraph could continue on the same line, like this: Some long, boring, drawn out legal wording, blah blah blah... the purchaser shall deliver to the escrow account held at SkipVought 1234 east main street, etc. the sum of some dollar amount...

Ok, I need what you wrote in your earlier post, but it needs to be inside the paragraph, not as a set of discrete lines. Like this example, but I can't count on the merged field to be at the beginning of a line. blah blah blah... the purchaser shall deliver to the escrow account held at...

Hi Skip, That is much closer to what I need to do. One clarification: the underlined name & address needs to be in-line in a paragraph. More like this: blah blah blah... the purchaser shall deliver to the escrow account held at SkipVought 1234 east main street, etc. the sum of ... blah...

Skip, you aren't reading what I wrote. I said the merge field IS UNDERLINED PROPERLY. Please reread my query and see if you can address the actual problem. Getting it underlined is NOT the problem. Mike.

Umm, ok, but that is NOT the problem. I'm apparently not explaining myself well. 1) Press Ctrl-U. 2) Press space twice. 3) Left arrow to position the cursor inside of those 2 spaces. 4) Press Alt-I, F, select Merge field, enter field name. The merge field is underlined properly. The problem...

Yes I did, Skip. That's not the problem. When the merge field inserts, which could be 20 chars or 250 chars of data, the descriptive text "(name and address blah blah)" may move because the merged space moved across the page due to other merged fields. I need the "(name and address blah...

I don't know if this is even possible, but I'm putting merge codes in a Word 2003 document and there's descriptive text under an underline I'm inserting the merge codes for, as well as other merge fields in the same paragraph before the text, which means the underlined area may move...

Ok, so I must be bored today... And my reading comprehension is bad... I reread it again, and in this case, recno() may work for you because you're just assigning a field first time: replace all recordnum with recno() + 1000 That will make the first customer 1001, the second one 1002, etc...

DanyD, 2 things: First, I realized I made a typo above. the replace line should be: replace CustID with CUSTID->CUSTID + 1; CUSTID->CustID with CUSTID->CUSTID + 1 Second, I just reread the thread. It looks like you're trying to assign new customer ID's. In that case, use...