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Sorry, I must be naive. I just wanted to know a simple way to be able to type in the first one or two letters of a doctor's name, and have corresponding names appear for me to select one of, and have the corresponding address appear.
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Well, it is a little naive.
The names appear...where? Have the addresses appear...where? These things do not appear magically. Word has to be told where and how. YOU have to tell it where and how.
I am not trying to give you a hard time, just trying to give you a stretch of imagination. Say you have Dr. Jones. You type “J” and then “o”. OK. Now where is the “corresponding names” to appear? Right after? So you now have “JoJones”, the Jones following the Jo” you typed?
Now where does the address (assuming you CAN get it) appear? Following the “Jo” (or “JoJones”) ? Someplace else? If so…where?
What you are asking for is not that difficult, it is fairly simple, but it does take effort and planning and very specific instructions. Specifics. Nothing vague.
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It looks like coding is required.
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As you do seem to want to place data gathered from someplace else (lets say your Excel file) at some other defined location, yes coding is likely. How else are you going to tell Word where to put it? Regarding that, part of the build of logic would be to determine if the location to put an address is ALWAYS going to be the same place. No? Then that adds another layer of complexity.
Again, believe it or not it IS (fairly) simple. It just needs to be very very very specific.
As has been mentioned (using a userform) you not need to type in the names. You can definitely pick up your data from Excel.