Individualising Word forms

[johnhodgson]

Can any suggest how to insert content into a Word form fields?

We want to send users a form where they can select one of three possible paragraphs by using Word form tick boxes, but we want them to be able to edit the paragraph if necessary. The content of the paragraphs will vary each time the form is sent. We need to put the content into textboxes in the form.

 

[Mike Gagnon]

johnhodgson

Is this a Visual FoxPro question?

Mike Gagnon

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[johnhodgson]

Mike

Yes, I was so far absorbeed with the problem trying figure it out I've probably left all the real essentials out of my questions

We're working on a VFP workflow system where users are issued work via a form by email and the outcome can in most circumstances be one of three options, we want to send them a Word form with the wording for the three outcomes pre-written (if differs slightly with each form) and they simply tick a check box to indicate which it was. Occasionally they may need to adjust the wording if something out of the ordinary happens, so they need to be able to edit the form textboxes.

I'm trying to get data from the VFP to populate the form text boxes before its sent

Hope that makes the problem a little more intelligible

 

[johnhodgson]

The moral of the story is search carefully through tek-tips and somewhere you will find the answer.

In this case create a word object, open up the .dot template, fill the textboxes by referencing their name

oWord=CREATEOBJECT('Word.Application')
oDoc=oWord.Documents.Open('c:\myform.dot')
oDoc.FormFields('TextBoxName').Result='Hello World'
oDoc.save

Sorry to have started a thread without proper research

 

[Mike Gagnon]

johnhodgson

The moral of the story is search carefully through tek-tips and somewhere you will find the answer.

At least you discovered that much ;-)



Mike Gagnon

If you want to get the best response to a question, please check out FAQ184-2483 first.