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Are fields able to be edited excel style in Word.
Hello,
I'm using office 365, and I'm trying to create a document in word that will take hardware specifications for several different devices and fill them in at the corresponding positions in the document. My original idea was to complete this in excel, but I need to use word. So as far as I know for fields you go to menu/info/custom, and then edit your fields there. The quantity of fields I'm going to need to use and update makes this extremely inefficient. Is there a page that kind of lays out the fields in an excel style grid where you can change the values for them ? |
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A better understanding of what you're trying to do would help.
You mention the "quantity of fields"--how much? What does Word have that Excel doesn't? Will a Word table suffice? if not, why not? |
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It's to generate a procedure template. In certain steps for example we are testing the sensors signal detection to see if its within the range the manufacturer claims it to be. So for that sensor we'd have a tag , a minimum signal strength, a max signal strength, alarm point, etc.The idea is to have all that data in fields for their corresponding sensors. Call that Sensor A. In the procedure I'm going to have to mention Sensor A and pertaining data say 30-40 times total at various steps. I would prefer excel but I've been tasked to do this in Word. This procedure is long and detailed like 200 steps and often for multiple pieces of equipment. The end result is that its a template for other users to be able to generate a procedure, but if I use fields I think its a method that is easy to make a mistake entering the data.
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I may be way off base, but believe the above links will help. They are about entering data in one location and having it replicated elsewhere in the document.
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