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It looks like you are asking for a kind of complex solution and no-one is particularly excited about solving it for you.
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I see that, but why should the solution be complex? I'm just asking for the mechanism to do the aforementioned example (Did I mention it's an example? I don't really need that specific thing done), i.e. what software/program to use and how to generally go about it. I'm not asking for a step-by-step full on solution.
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The question is kind of general and seems to be a fishing expedition.
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Not sure what you mean by "fishing expedition", but I hope you're not attacking my integrity as a user.
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What research have you conducted so far and how do you envisage the user providing the inputs to create the output?
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I tried googling all sorts of terms and seeing whether it's possible to accomplish it with perhaps visual basics. All the websites I got to didn't have relevant results.
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Are you expecting a dialog box to manage this or would you want content controls in a form to be how the user selects options?
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Not sure what you mean. I want the user to mark checkboxes, or choose something from a drop-down menu (Whether it's done in Word or an "outside program" is not really relevant to me), but the text is to be generated in MS Word.
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Also there is complexity hidden in the details here. Converting a 2 into twice is complex because we would need a lookup table to convert
1 to once
2 to twice
3 to thrice
4 to four times etc
5 to heaps and heaps
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Or simply have the user choose the words "once", "twice" if that's a problem
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What if one test was performed more times than the other tests? What if something did fail? What if it failed on the first test but not on retests? What if it failed on the second test but not on the first?
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Well, once I know what interface I'm using to accomplish it I could program it appropriately.
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If I was doing it, I would store the individual test blurbs as building blocks in the template. I would probably use a vba userform to ask for the tests list and the repeating number of tests. Then the content would get added to the document based on the form selections.
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If I was doing it, I would store the individual test blurbs as building blocks in the template. I would probably use a vba userform to ask for the tests list and the repeating number of tests. Then the content would get added to the document based on the form selections.
But you do need to make a start and do some research. If you have done enough research to ask a focused question and can provide some of the inputs so people aren't setting up the framework which may or may not be applicable, you are more likely to get answers here that help you complete the project.
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What research? I've googled "How to program parametric tables to generate texts into word"... "coding you can do with MS word"... stuff like that. Nothing led me to a solution. That's what I'm actually asking here-- What interface can I LEARN to use and how to properly conduct research on this topic so I could accomplish that? Not asking for someone to solve this specific example