[marcio gerep]

CREATING A FILLABLE FORM FOR WORD FOR WINDOWS
I need to create a form to describe the conditions found during one inspection. The number of points to inspect is around 100.
Most of them will have 3 types of known text to be type. a) the most common b) the less common and c) a text that will necessarily be customized.

What I want is to ocreate a template where another document will prompt me point by point:
The best description is a b or c? If it is c I will be prompted to type it but if it is a or be I will simply check a box.

In the end, the second document will verify that none of my fields were left blank and if some are found it will display the message: you did not fill field such and such, do you want to fill them up now? If I say yes I will be given the options to check a,b or c otherwise if I say no it will print the document with the missing fields.
The printed document will be print to file and I will be prompted for the file name.

Each of the points inspected can call for pictures and after the selection regarding the text is done for each point I will be prompted for what kind of pictures distribution I will need.
A small diagram will show me the options of pictures distribution so that I can select the types, a, b, c, d or enter my own

All help is greatly appreciated.

Best regards


Marcio

[Duane in Japan]

I am no Word Guru but I do know a little about Visual Basic, this is some project you are looking at here, I am not so sure anyone can help you for free but we will wait and see who shows up with some good Word help. Have you tried the MSDN site and search for anything?

I believe that Word has VBA built in, at least Office 2007 does, I think 2003 should too, do you know anything about VBA coding?

[vingogly]

This could be done in Word with VBA, or as a website with PHP/MySQL, or as a standalone program. If multiple people will be using the program, that makes it a fairly complex project; if it's just for your personal use, it will be a very simple program to implement. If you're not a programmer, the best bet is to hire a freelancer to do this project for you. I recommend one of the following project boards:

Guru.com – Find freelancers at the world’s largest online service marketplace.

Rent A Coder: How Software Gets Done -- The most completed software projects on the internet

You basically set up an account, and set up a project. Developers will bid on your project. Many will be offshore developers and will bid quite low, so you can probably get this done for a very reasonable price. You can either specify a price or leave it open for suggestions. Developers are rated when they finish projects; look for someone who has a good track record (has completed five or more projects and has a high rating and no disputed or failed projects). Find the developer who has a decent rating and bids low - most likely this will be offshore, and you will communicate via email and IM. Once you've accepted a developer, you'll put the funds for the project in escrow to be released when you've accepted the result.

Vasily

[Duane in Japan]

Do some research on Validating or Validation, this is used to verify if certain blocks of info was filled in or not, required fields that is, like name and email address.

[ScottGem]

This would take some extensive Word VBA. But could be done using MS Access fairly easily, with little coding.