Microsoft Word Form Text Error
here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Super User Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Super User is a question and answer site for computer enthusiasts and power users. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top Word 2007 displaying {FORMTEXT} in place of forms up vote 3 down vote favorite 1 My friend is suffering from an issue in Word 2007. All the files with a form open incorrectly, with all the form fields replaced with {FORMTEXT}. I opened the same files in Word 2010 and they open perfectly on my computer. Exporting to PDF from the same Word 2007 makes the forms appear perfectly in the PDF. Can you tell my what kind of setting makes her Word 2007 not show the forms correctly? microsoft-word microsoft-office microsoft-word-2007 microsoft-office-2007 share|improve this question asked Jun 13 '11 at 16:41 zsero 3153719 I updated my answer. Sorry, the previous one was for printing. This one should work. –slotishtype Jun 13 '11 at 19:46 add a comment| 1 Answer 1 active oldest votes up vote 3 down vote accepted This is a field code issue. Use ALT&F9 to toggle "show file codes" or you can do this with word options like so 'Office Button|Word Options|Advanced > Show Document Content' as discussed here. For printing try this: Go to File / Print / Options "Include with Document": Clear the "Field Codes" check box OK / Close Best of luck... share|improve this answer edited Jun 14 '11 at 7:18 answered Jun 13 '11 at 19:10 slotishtype 2,443716 add a comment| Your Answer draft saved draft discarded Sign up or log in Sign up using Google Sign up using Facebook Sign up using Email and Password Post as a guest Name Email Post as a guest Name Email discard By posting your answer, you agree to the privacy policy and terms of service. Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged microsoft-word microsoft-office microsoft-word-2007 microsoft-office-2007 or ask your own question. asked 5 years ago viewed 13119 times active 5 years ago Related 0Wildcards in Word0Headers and Chapters in Word 20074How do I change t
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from Microsoft Office for Windows. Ever had one of those forms that repeats someone's name or some other piece of information, um, repeatedly? Say, a will or a power of attorney or something similar? If you've tried to make yourself a homegrown forms database, knowing that you'll have to go in each time and fill in the variable information (name, he/she, his/her, son/daughter/children, etc.) in all (and I do mean all) the right places, then you can appreciate this reader's dilemma: I'm trying to create some forms for our estates and trusts attorney. She gave me a sample will, medical power of attorney, and some correspondence. There are several places in the will, where it will say, "I leave my sons…or my wife, Mary," for example. [I could] make all of those relationships fields, but I think that would be longer. As of now, all the paralegal has to do is do a find/replace and change all the sons, to daughters, or children, and wife to husband, etc. Making them all a field will mean that the assistant will have to retype the same word at least 23 times in a will. (That's just making more work for her.)
Is there a way to autopopulate a field? I'd like it to work similar to Adobe [Acrobat], where if you give the fields the same name, the text in one will automatically fill up in all of the others. I've read something about making each field an REF field, but I don't understand how to do it, and I've tried tons of Google search results. Can you help? I'd always been interested in this question myself (since I've run into this problem with my own forms), but I just never took the time to really find a good solution. This reader gave me a good excuse to go digging around to find something that works. There are a number of ways to approach this — I've heard of people using Mail Merge, ASK fields (which could be used in con