[mso] Re: Word Forms...maybe Access instead? Colin

Hi Colin...I'm sure if Dian was around and reading mail, she could answer
this...Word Forms are her specialty (and not mine) but she doesn't seem to
be posting much in this group lately...but if it were me, I would use an
Access form for this instead of a Word form...is there a reason you have to
use Word? Are you familiar with Access?  It sure seems like this would be a
lot more functional if you used Access instead of Word.


Linda
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-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Colin
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 8:23 AM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Word Forms

I'm creating some forms for use with my family research.
 

Two main questions.

 

1) I have to collect information for each child of a marriage. There can be
zero to 15 or more children (for many 18th /19th century families). IS there
an easy way to have a table on the form which appears once and then repeats
as often as it is needed? 

 

2) As the form will be used for manual entry, for use on line and by
non-computer users, I decided to stick with a simple (huh I have approx 40
fields per person!!) form which I tab through as appropriate, then print for
use in a reference manual. To make it as visually attractive as possible, I
would like to suppress some of the sectors, if the field contains no data.
Is this easy.

 

I had a look at Linda's web site & Dian's Mousetrax site, but couldn't see
anything like this.

 

Any pointers to any tutorials/ existing VBA code that I can copy & amend
would be welcome.

 

 

Thanks

 

 

Colin


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