creating multiple documents at one time

[John Dirks Jr]

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.

[Jerry Simon]

Merge fields.

[Jim Katen]

Create a database in Access and use it to populate fields in your documents.

- Jim Katen, Oregon

[Marc]

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

[John Dirks Jr]

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

[Jim Katen]

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

[John Dirks Jr]

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?

[Jim Katen]

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

[Tom Raymond]

Stick to the tutorial John. You'll be much happier.

[Erby]

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!

[rbaake]

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!