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Dear Friends,

I have a template, and I have create a unique document for many individuals based off this template.

Here is what I want to be able to do after I open the template, and press the command key -

I want the the computer to prompt me "Enter Name:" in the Message Box (or something similar), and I want to be able to type the name of the person in the message box.

After I do that, I want it to automatically type that name in the desired place in the Microsoft Word document. Mail merge is not an option.

Thanks!

i think its very easy just create a gui,edit and ask the user to enter his name then get the contents of the edit box via guicontrol and just write this content into the word doc

it is better to use gui, submit or a simple inputbox. Second, if possible: create a bookmark in the Word document so you can open it, send the shortcut to jump to the bookmark in the word document and send or paste the content from the inputbox.

Look at:
- inputbox
- send
If you already have a file with names, simply fileread and parse the file in a loop:
- FileRead
- Loop, parse, variable...

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Thanks! That works for the first part...a window appears, where I can now type the text.

However, in the word document, the text is pasted where the cursor is.

I want to have control over the location of the text by specifying the coordinates.

Any suggestions for that? Codes would help, as I am very new to this.

Thanks in advance.

Thanks! That works for the first part...a window appears, where I can now type the text.

However, in the word document, the text is pasted where the cursor is.

I want to have control over the location of the text by specifying the coordinates.

Any suggestions for that? Codes would help, as I am very new to this.

Thanks in advance.

You don't need Ahk. Put a word like @@@ where you want the name then do a Find/Replace, and Replace @@@ with John Smith

Or just use Click, x-Position, y-Position to click at the area to paste the text.