Word, Macros. Ask user for their name & then display in word?

[Vini]

I want to create a basic form, which eventually will result in a dynamic document being created in Word.

I want to ask the user for their name, address and telephone number (etc), and then have this information entered into a specific part of the document.

Any ideas?

I've been able to create a macro to prompt the user for the name, but not being able to do anything with the name they input. (using this guide; link)

[fuddam]

you have to create bookmarks where the data will go, and the macro places it there when finished.

as you know, in Excel the bookmarks aren't necessary, since there are coordinates for each cell, but Word's only way of locating something is via said bookmarks

[hibby]

One slight issue is that the standard way to replace text at a bookmark also deletes the bookmark - not so useful if you want to be able to change the text later with the same macro. There is a workaround for this though.

You may also want to look at document variables, which I prefer for this. Once you've got your variable, use Ctrl + F9 to put a field into your document and type "DOCVARIABLE" and the name of your variable between the curly braces, e.g. { DOCVARIABLE firstName }. Just be very careful you don't set the variable to nothing, as it then gets deleted and causes errors next time you try and retrieve the data.