How to Auto-Populate a Word Document with Repeated Text or Fields- Where is the Repeat Field Button? 

I come back to this video every few months, thank you sir.

Thank you very much. I couldn't get my fields to repeat until you pointed out the bug that means an extra field to tab to is required. After adding in an extra field, I'm finally able to get this stuff working properly :)

well done - clear and concise...thank you!

I haven't needed to do this since Word 97 😂 Great little refresher video. Thanks for your wonderful instructions

Great demo Chester! Precise & clear!

Thank you very much for this video. I have long been looking for an opportunity to create field duplication. I finally learned it thanks to this video. Great explanation! And a very useful and little known functionality.

Very helpful! And what a nice voice you have.

Thanks Chester!

Thanks for the video. It is exactly what I need. I usually use the pre-made properties fields when repeating text. But I had a template that required more fields than Word provides, so this was great!

Excellent tutorial, thank you so much

Thanks! this was very helpful

You are awesome! Thank you!

🙏👌👌I wish more views

Thanks very much for a useful video. I'm using an Apple MacBook. The quick method in the video didn't work too well for me, but the second more complex did, including the use of F9 function, despite the Apple Word version using a different menu structure.

Hi! I've made several attempts at the second option in the video but have not had success. It may be because the brackets don't appear when I select the TEXT FORM FIELD button, and the gray box does not appear with darker gray brackets. Any idea why? Thanks!

Thank you so much brother

Excellent video. Thanks

Brilliant! Thanks!

Thank you soooo much, this was brilliant and just the info I needed. Well explained including the tips on having the last text field. I had to exit design mode before I could start the protection. You didn't need to do that. Wonder why? But thank you

Good video. The second method proved too much trouble for our average users though.

This is superb. Can it be used for Legacy Check Box Form Fields?

Great video, thank you ! quick question: for some reason, the repeated fields come in bold, while source bookmark are not. Even when formatting REF bookmark in regular, it keeps coming bold. Any suggestion ? Thank you !

Very nice

How can I do this with check box when somebody clicks to select one category name, then should display in another area of the document.

Excellent👍🏻

1:40 ; Under Properties - Advanced - Show Document Content, when I tick Show Bookmarks it works while I work on my document. However, when I create a new file, it automatically unticks. Any help would be appreciated! Thank you for your video Chester! I really enjoyed your delivery and presentation. Keep it up man!

Thank you! Very useful. Just one question: I have a long text document with multiple cross references linked to one bookmark, but each one of those references needs to follow a different format (font type, color and size). Whenever I update the fields they all follow the original bookmark format. Is there a way to make them keep the destination format? I wouldnt want to go through the document changing the format by hand... Thank you!

ctrl +f9 seems to do absolutely nothing on my laptop in word. What is the long way of doing this shortcut?

@ChesterTugwell - thank you. How does the document automatically update the REF bookmark fields, though? In the second technique, when you type a name in the bookmark at the bottom of your form updates. I thought Word doesn't do that by default, though, and macros/VBA (or F9) are needed to trigger bookmark updates? When I create a document like yours it does not auto-update.

Hi Chester, excellent video. I have followed every step however, once I restrict the document the styleref stop working. Would you know why? Thank you

How can I do this to include the text in the header or footer of the document? For example Project Number or PO number? This would be helpful

All of the Legacy Tools are greyed out and I can't click on them (other than "Reset Form Fields"). Do I need a certain version of Word to access them?

Crtl + F9 does not give me the brackets. What should I do?

Thanks for the video, I am using a template with auto-populate, but every time I save it, it reset the content to default, do you know how to modify that? Thanks!

Ctrl + F9 starts and stops a video even when the focus is on the Word document. Is this a keyboard-specific control? Is there a link within MS Word 365 where I can insert {REF} instead of using Ctrl + F9?

I am not about to get these methods to work when I have the ref field in the header. Have you run into this issue?

Thanks

how do i keep the text form field from shown the grey highlight when printing?

I need to utilize method 2 for a rapport and require the content to be editable. Is it possible to use method 2 without restricting the editing?

Is it possible to do this with multiple docs in a same time without opening them, or when they are open?

5:30 How are you able to click on the Legacy Form buttons? My interface has them greyed out

What do you do if you have repeating photos within a document and generate more documents of same kind?

Very helpful video. Whenever I click insert during the cross-reference stage - the field that comes up is not just a blank gray space. It shows up in my document like this: {REF ChildName}. When I right-click to update field - nothing updates. There is an exclamation point on my update field button. How can I fix this?

How to do it if the document is 26pages long, let's just say we are interested in adding both name and date?

This is dynamite! Do you know how i can remove the space for Option 1?

can you auto populate a drop down box

Can you autopopulate not from a text control but from a Drop Down List Content Control Value?