MS Word - populate fixed field

There are several techniques that you could use.
For instance you could bookmark any text to be repeated and place Ref fields at the places that it is to be redisplayed.

You could use Form Fields or Content Controls, perhaps with the 'sub' form as a building block. It would be part of the document and not a sidebar.

The nearest that you could get to that would be as a VBA UserForm which could load text on to the document at locations defined by, say, pre-existing bookmarks.

Great thanks:)

I think it would be more user efficient to use a userform to populate the document.

Do you know of any example docs with a VBA userform that I could build it from?

Thanks!

The best approach will depend on your exact circumstance. In this one, you need to set Bookmarks in the template. Because Bookmark names must be unique, you will need to group all those expecting the same data, but differentiate between each instance. You can do this by appending a sequential number to each set of names.

E.g. CompanyName_01,  CompanyName_02, CompanyName_03

The code in the Userform would then be like this:

Option Explicit

Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
    Dim bmk As Bookmark
    For Each bmk In ActiveDocument.Bookmarks
        Select Case Split(bmk.Name, "_")(0)
            Case "CompanyName"
                InsertTextInBookmark bmk, txtCompanyName.Text
            Case "Contact"
                InsertTextInBookmark bmk, txtContact.Text
            Case "Address"
                '...
            'Case ...
        End Select
    Next bmk
End Sub

Sub InsertTextInBookmark(bmk As Bookmark, strText As String)
    Dim rng As Range
    
    Set rng = bmk.Range
    rng.Text = strText
    're-add bookmark in case it was overwritten and
    'to ensure that it contains the text
    rng.Document.Bookmarks.Add bmk.Name, rng
End Sub

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Hi,
Thanks, I have made a userform now in my template. I arranged the textfield as I wanted it in the form. I added a 'OK' button where I added the script above with modifications on my field names.

But I have some questions, does the Case "CompanyName" reflect the field name in the userform or the bookmark name?

Here is my code so far, but it don't work, nothing happends when I push "OK" button.

Option Explicit

Private Sub OK_Click()
    Dim bmk As Bookmark
    For Each bmk In ActiveDocument.Bookmarks
        Select Case Split(bmk.Name, "_")(0)

            Case "Radgiver10"
'Case "Radgiver10" is the name of the field in the Userform.

                InsertTextInBookmark bmk, txtRådgiver.Text
'"txtRådgiver.Text" is the bookmark name.

            Case "Radgiver10"
                InsertTextInBookmark bmk, txtRådgiver01.Text
            Case "Radgiver10"
                InsertTextInBookmark bmk, txtRådgiver02.Text
            Case "Oppdragsgiver10"
                InsertTextInBookmark bmk, txtOppdragsgiver.Text
            Case "Oppdragsgiver10"
                InsertTextInBookmark bmk, txtOppdragsgiver02.Text
            Case "Oppdragsgiver10"
                InsertTextInBookmark bmk, txtOppdragsgiver03.Text
            Case "Oppdragsgiver10"
                InsertTextInBookmark bmk, txtOppdragsgiver04.Text
            Case "Oppdragsgiver10"
                InsertTextInBookmark bmk, txtOppdragsgiver05.Text
            Case "Oppdragsgiver10"
                InsertTextInBookmark bmk, txtOppdragsgiver06.Text
            Case "LederFast"
            InsertTextInBookmark bmk, txtStyrelederFast.Text
            Case "LederTime"
                InsertTextInBookmark bmk, txtStyrelederTime.Text
            Case "MedlemFast"
                InsertTextInBookmark bmk, txtStyremedlemFast.Text
            Case "MedlemTime"
                InsertTextInBookmark bmk, txtStyremedlemTime.Text
            Case "RadgiverTime"
                InsertTextInBookmark bmk, txtRadgiverTime.Text
            
        End Select
    Next bmk
End Sub

Sub InsertTextInBookmark(bmk As Bookmark, strText As String)
    Dim rng As Range
    
    Set rng = bmk.Range
    rng.Text = strText
    're-add bookmark in case it was overwritten and
    'to ensure that it contains the text
    rng.Document.Bookmarks.Add bmk.Name, rng
End Sub

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If you have the same text to be inserted in several places, you will need to bookmark each place. You cannot use exactly the same name for more than one bookmark, but you can fill more than one bookmark from the same text box.

When a match is found in a Select Case block , the action will be done in the Case part, and the block is edited, so line 16 in you code will never be actioned. The same applies to lines 20 to 28, etc.

My suggestion is that you have bookmarks with names like "Radgiver_01",  "Radgiver_02",
"Oppdragsgiver_01",  "Oppdragsgiver_02",  "Oppdragsgiver_03". It doesn't matter what comes after the underscore, provided that the first parts are all the same and the last parts are all different, for any given first part.

Private Sub OK_Click()
    Dim bmk As Bookmark
    For Each bmk In ActiveDocument.Bookmarks
        Select Case Split(bmk.Name, "_")(0)

            Case "Radgiver"
                '"Radgiver" is the first part of the bookmark name on the document.
                InsertTextInBookmark bmk, txtRådgiver.Text
                '"txtRådgiver.Text" is the text from the text box on the user form
            Case "Oppdragsgiver"
                InsertTextInBookmark bmk, txtOppdragsgiver.Text
            Case "LederFast" 'if there is no "_" in the bookmark name, Split(bmk.Name, "_")(0) will return the whole name
                InsertTextInBookmark bmk, txtStyrelederFast.Text
            Case "LederTime"
                InsertTextInBookmark bmk, txtStyrelederTime.Text
            Case "MedlemFast"
                InsertTextInBookmark bmk, txtStyremedlemFast.Text
            Case "MedlemTime"
                InsertTextInBookmark bmk, txtStyremedlemTime.Text
            Case "RadgiverTime"
                InsertTextInBookmark bmk, txtRadgiverTime.Text
            
        End Select
    Next bmk
End Sub

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Thank you very much, almost there I think, but get a error on the last line:

 rng.Document.Bookmarks.Add bmk.Name, rng

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What does the  Next bmk do?

My code is now:

Private Sub OK_Click()

    Dim bmk As Bookmark
    For Each bmk In ActiveDocument.Bookmarks
        Select Case Split(bmk.Name, "_")(0)

            Case "Rådgiver"
                '"Radgiver" is the first part of the bookmark name on the document.
                InsertTextInBookmark bmk, txtRadgiver.Text
                '"txtRadgiver.Text" is the text from the text box on the user form
            Case "Oppdragsgiver"
                InsertTextInBookmark bmk, txtOppdragsgiver.Text
                'if there is no "_" in the bookmark name, Split(bmk.Name, "_")(0) will return the whole name
            Case "Kontaktperson"
                InsertTextInBookmark bmk, txtKontaktperson
            Case "StyrelederFast"
                InsertTextInBookmark bmk, txtLederFast.Text
            Case "StyrelederTime"
                InsertTextInBookmark bmk, txtLederTime.Text
            Case "StyremedlemFast"
                InsertTextInBookmark bmk, txtMedlemFast.Text
            Case "StyremedlemTime"
                InsertTextInBookmark bmk, txtMedlemTime.Text
            Case "RådgiverTime"
                InsertTextInBookmark bmk, txtRadgiverTime.Text
        End Select
    Next bmk
End Sub

Sub InsertTextInBookmark(bmk As Bookmark, strText As String)
    Dim rng As Range
    
    Set rng = bmk.Range
    rng.Text = strText
    're-add bookmark in case it was overwritten and
    'to ensure that it contains the text
    rng.Document.Bookmarks.Add bmk.Name, rng
End Sub

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Sorry for my slow learning curv. Hope we can get it working.

What is the error message and number please?

The 'Next bmk' line matches this one:

    For Each bmk In ActiveDocument.Bookmarks

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That is an instruction to walk through each member of the 'ActiveDocument.Bookmarks' collection, setting the variable bmk to that member. The Next instruction tells the code to loop back to the 'For Each' line and set the variable to the next member. The loop continues until the last member of the collection has been processed.

Ok, I see!

I get "Run time error 5825 - object deleted" on line 37. I'll attach the document.
Mal---exchange.doc

Perfect! Thank you so much :)

Perfect! and thank you!