Susan Harkins
ssharkins at gmail.com
Fri Dec 11 08:33:11 CST 2009
Tina, I'm inserting form fields into a table. But for the life of me, I can't figure out how to refer to them so I can plug one into a formula. Hire Date Form Field Probation End: HireDate + 90 It seems like it should be simple, but maybe Word just can't do this. I can't figure out how to name the form field, and I thought you could. I could swear I've done this before, but I'm just not having any luck. Susan H. > Hi Susan, > > I'm not sure, but the hassles involved in doing any calculations in Word > are why I generally don't. You can write formulas in a Word table cell > that refer to other table cells, but it's ever so much more difficult > than using Excel, and there's precious little guidance in the Help. I > use bookmarks and cross-references often in Word, but usually for > location (page number) or for table of contents. Another possibility > comes to mind - form fields. Word has many of them - I usually use just > a few of those, as in "Click here and type the name" or whatever, and > check boxes. Have you looked into those? > > T > > Susan Harkins wrote: >> After doing a bit of research, it seems the only way to do this is to >> create >> a bookmark that points to the field and refer to the bookmark. Is this >> really the only and best way to do this? >> >> Susan H. >> >> >> >>> I want to use a Word field to evaluate another field value in a >>> calculation. How can I do this? For instance, if one field is today's >>> date >>> (DATE), how can I get a formula in EQ field to reference the date field? >>> >>> I have Equation Editor installed and I don't have any problem inserting >>> simple equations. >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dba-Tech mailing list >> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> >> > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com