microsoft word using styleref with content controls

#Microsoft word using styleref with content controls update#

The advantage of this is that the form isn't visible/printable, and yet it won't be deleted. Then you close it, and it populates the document in the fields. Basically you create a pop-up form that comes up when you first open a template, where you fill in the pertinent information. I've also tried this method I found on YouTube.

Otherwise, they tend to backspace-delete the brackets and not understand why they broke it. The only slightly tricky part for me about this is that if I'm working with documents and coworkers are going to be in there too, they should have 'show bookmarks' checked in their Advanced Settings, so that they see the brackets surrounding the original bookmarked text. Where you want them to reappear, use Insert Cross Reference, and choose the bookmarks you want. Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP Lisa Wilke. Volunteering to 'pay forward' the help I've received in the Microsoft user community.

#Microsoft word using styleref with content controls update#

I know you can force an update by using Print Preview. This does not really address the problem with the StyleRef field. You simply highlight the forename in the first place it appears, do Insert Bookmark, and give it a name (like Forename), and the same for Surname. In the document you can repeat content by using STYLEREF fields. Give the Document Property Content Controls a try. Have you considered the much simpler Bookmark and Cross Reference? I find this works well to repeat names and titles and such on the fly. Surely, there has to be an easier way without using VBA, Macro’s, just a simple solution to link text to each other so that it automatically updates in the body, header and footer without doing any sort of dodgy hacks? To reference the text inside the Plain Text Content Control, I am using STYLEREF like so: which when wrapped properly, shows the forename as Jane I’m not well versed on Microsoft Word and have only found this ‘way’ of doing things in approximately a day or two, so I am checking that I am doing this the right way to prevent issues further down the line. The documents that I will be creating will have numerous references to the Plain Text Content Controls I have previously mentioned and there may well be a lot more in the future. This setup for the surname Plain Text Content Control is exactly the same, except for the tag name and style name, which is ‘surname’. This style has not been edited anyway and only the styles name has been changed.

I have created a new style with the same name as the Plain Text Content Control tag called ‘forename’. I do not want the box to be able to be deleted, although this document will NOT be restricted. The first Plain Text Content Control has the following properties: I have uploaded a document which explains with pictures what am I am doing, however I will paste the text in this message just in case anyone does not feel comfortable downloading and opening a random word file from the internet.Īs you can see above, this is a simple table and in the second column are two Plain Text Content Controls.