Andrew_Sam — Fri, 16 Jan 2004 22:01:38 +0000

JeevesBond — Fri, 16 Jan 2004 08:30:52 +0000

No worries... I may hold you to that some day, I'll appear at your doorstep and say: "Hey Andrew, where's my Goddamn brewery?!"

Andrew_Sam — Thu, 15 Jan 2004 23:07:12 +0000

Jeeves you're a genius!
Seriously many thanks, I owe you not so much a pint of the black stuff as a damn brewery!
Regards
Andrew

JeevesBond — Thu, 15 Jan 2004 10:31:20 +0000

Jeeves comes to the rescue

I put the address and references into a table, word reads the fields in the right order and the formatting is correct as well!
Have a look at the template attached (you'll have to change the file extension...it wouldn't let me upload as a .dot file ), and tell me what you think...

Suzanne — Wed, 14 Jan 2004 23:21:10 +0000

I don't use word because I don't do any desktop publishing anymore. I do some print work, but that's done in Draw or Illustrator. AppleWorks covers me adequately for other text based work if I need it, and allows me to open all contemporary formats for spreadsheets and documents.

Word isn't helpful when programming or illustrating.

Andrew_Sam — Wed, 14 Jan 2004 23:07:50 +0000

Thanks for replying folks, was on the verge of checking my deodrant there for a minute

Hopefully this explains things better.
This template is designed to be a letterhead for our Regional Offices. To simplify things for users, they will get prompted by "Fill In Fields" to enter the destination address (line by line), Relevant Rerefence Nos., date, etc.
I have it all working bar two "wee" things

Please see the attachment to this post eg.gif This shows the format of the head of the letter before any fields are entered (everything is aligned), The same portion of the letter after fields have been entered (notice the alignment is off) and lastly the code I've used for the "Fill In Fields". First problem is one of alignment - how do I ensure that entering an address will ot throw off the formating?
I would like the "Fields" to prompt the user in the order:-Line1 - Line 6, Your Reference, Our Reference & Date. This is the order they were created but Word seems to read from left to right.

Thanks

Andrew

P.S. Realise this is a Webmaster Forum and all that but why do so few use Word? Get ready for avalanche of anti-MS sentiment

JeevesBond — Wed, 14 Jan 2004 13:23:33 +0000

Lol, I also try to avoid it where possible

But seriously...I checked into this and fill-in fields are for mail merges aren't they? Although your problem sounds more related to just simple formatting, where are you getting the data from - Access? How long are the fields you're trying to import?

Suzanne — Tue, 13 Jan 2004 23:36:30 +0000

Sorry, Andrew, not a lot of people use Word regularly.

Andrew_Sam — Tue, 13 Jan 2004 23:17:45 +0000