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Old 04-03-2014, 05:15 AM
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Question Fields & Auto-text

Firstly, I am sorry if this is in the wrong section or if Word is the correct program for this. I'm looking for an easier way to auto-fill fields that I can just copy & paste. Would appreciate if someone could direct me to some sort of guide or tutorial.



Basically what I'm working around is sending out a SMS via an online application but its extremely repetitive and time consuming having to retype everything each time.

I'm picturing some sort of document with maybe a drop down box or something I can type in which allows me to enter details. Something along the lines of...

Location: [drop down]
Date: [field]
Time: [field]

Once I enter data into those fields it will auto-fill into the following sentence,

"Vacancy at [LOCATION] on [DATE] at [TIME]. If available please reply."

Then I can simply copy & paste the above into my SMS application as if it were just normal text.

Appreciate your time, thank you in advance.

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AutoText is something quite different.

There are a number of ways to do what you want.
See Repeating Data (Populating Multiple Like Fields).
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AutoText is something quite different.

There are a number of ways to do what you want.
See Repeating Data (Populating Multiple Like Fields).
Thank you very much Charles.

I had a read through it, searched a bit then found a video that also helped me out (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aABYENF1bMI).

Appreciate it.
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