Thread: [Solved] Can I create word wizards with Word 2016 to automate document creation?
View Single Post
 
Old 09-30-2016, 11:41 AM
Charles Kenyon Charles Kenyon is offline Windows 8 Office 2013
Moderator
  
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sun Prairie, Wisconsin
Posts: 9,461
Charles Kenyon has a brilliant futureCharles Kenyon has a brilliant futureCharles Kenyon has a brilliant futureCharles Kenyon has a brilliant futureCharles Kenyon has a brilliant futureCharles Kenyon has a brilliant futureCharles Kenyon has a brilliant futureCharles Kenyon has a brilliant futureCharles Kenyon has a brilliant futureCharles Kenyon has a brilliant futureCharles Kenyon has a brilliant future
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by OkiDoki View Post
Thanks Charles and Paul for your feedback on this topic. I've clicked through your links and it looks like I have a bit of review to do. I noticed that many of the article links are for 2010 or older versions of work. I'm using word 2016...any anticipated issues?

Ultimately I need to create something that I can share with other members of the company and I don't think ribbon level building blocks would work. I need our staff to be able to pull a particular proposal template for a particular product, enter key information, and then have that template generate. I need to have the ability to be able to change or update text in that auto created document as needed as well. Seems like a straight-forward thing that is actually hard to accomplish. Keep the ideas coming and I'll see how well I do at this.
  1. Userforms date back at least to Word 97 and work fine in Word 2016.
  2. The AutoText (building blocks) can be incorporated in the same template that contains your Wizard. The thing is, these can contain formatting as well as text and can be modified without changing the code in the wizard.
You save blocks of text as AutoText. Your userform tells Word to insert them into the document as needed.
Reply With Quote