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From: larry@palan.uucp (Larry Strickland)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: move to form field marker in w4w
Message-ID: <1991Jun8.134400.20387@palan.uucp>
Date: 8 Jun 91 13:44:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: palan.1991Jun8.134400.20387
References: <1991Jun7.045532.5742@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Organization: Palantir Systems, Inc.
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In article <1991Jun7.045532.5742@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> gg2@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Guy Gallo) writes:
>In article <3284@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> lrb@alex.ctrg.rri.uwo.ca (Lance R. Bailey) writes:
>>my secretary, under word4dos, got into the habit of inserting left chevrons
>>throughout documents to enable jumping from area to area by using the CTRL-'>'
>>keystroke (move to form field marker).
>>...
>First off, know that WfW is much more closely related to Word for the MAC
>than it is to Word for DOS.
>
>The equivalent to a chevron (begin field) in WfDOS is an actual Field marker,
>which is insserted with Ctrl-F9.


If I might jump in here just a bit.  It sounds like you are using DOS Word
'fields' for a fill-in form.  This is one nice bit that wasn't in the Mac Word
(too bad, too).

However, there is an auto FILLIN (I think) field that will do the equivalent
for you in WfW.  You insert the FILLIN fields (use the Insert/Field menu and
select FILLIN (or whatever you see is close to that) in the location in your
document where you want a filled in item.  There are more arguments for prompts
and so forth, see the manual.

Now, to fill-in the form, load it up (best saved as a template first for easy
modification) and do the Update Field operation, F9.  You should see dialog
boxes for each fillin field asking you for appropriate information.  When done,
save or print as usual.

Disclaimer:  I'm doing this from memory, so the names may have been changed to
protect the guilty.  It DOES work, though.

-larry