John Dirks Jr Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 I find myself doing repetitive work when entering the same information on multiple documents. For instance, an inspection with a radon test will be three documents. 1) the inspection report. 2) the radon report. 3) a receipt for services. These documents contain common information such as clients name and contact information as well as property information such as the address and the like. I use XP and MS Word 2002 to do my initial work before converting everything to PDF for sending. Is there a way in my current operating systems that I can make a form with selectable options for creating multiple files at once? My hope is to be able to enter the information one time and select which docs I want created and have it done in one click. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Simon Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 Merge fields. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Katen Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 Create a database in Access and use it to populate fields in your documents. - Jim Katen, Oregon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 Jim's right. Database is the way to go. I had an Open Office DB for years, need to get it going again. For immediate relief try Ditto. It helps with the copy/pasting. Marc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dirks Jr Posted January 31, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I did some searching and found this tutorial site. I'll give it a whirl. http://www.vtc.com/products/Microsoft-A ... orials.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Katen Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I did some searching and found this tutorial site. I'll give it a whirl. http://www.vtc.com/products/Microsoft-A ... orials.htm Or you can do what I did, marry a woman who's a database designer. Databases give me hives. - Jim Katen, Oregon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dirks Jr Posted January 31, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I did some searching and found this tutorial site. I'll give it a whirl. http://www.vtc.com/products/Microsoft-A ... orials.htm Or you can do what I did, marry a woman who's a database designer. Databases give me hives. - Jim Katen, Oregon I already married a woman but she didn't include database design. Whatta ya think the chance is I could tweak her? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Katen Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I did some searching and found this tutorial site. I'll give it a whirl. http://www.vtc.com/products/Microsoft-A ... orials.htm Or you can do what I did, marry a woman who's a database designer. Databases give me hives. - Jim Katen, Oregon I already married a woman but she didn't include database design. Whatta ya think the chance is I could tweak her? Or upgrade to Wife 2.0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Raymond Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 Stick to the tutorial John. You'll be much happier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erby Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 Wife 2.0 (or any other version) crashes your whole life system when Girlfriend software is installed. It only stutters a bit when Fishing 2.7 or Hunting 1.8 is installed. Only you can choose what level of risk to live with! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbaake Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 John, go to Youtube an search for MS Word Mail Merge. Once you start using it, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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