Prompts you to enter information and assigns a bookmark to represent your response. You must insert a REF field after the ASK field where you want Microsoft Word to print the response in the document. You can use the information entered in other fields to compute a bookmark value
Word displays the prompt each time the ASK field is updated. A response remains assigned to the bookmark until you enter a new response. If the ASK field is used in a mail merge main document, the prompt is displayed each time you merge a new data record unless you use the \o switch.
Instructions- Bookmark
- The bookmark name assigned to the response to the prompt, for example, ClientName.
- "Prompt"
- Prompt text, which is displayed in a dialog box, for example, "Enter the client's name."
- \d "Default "
- Specifies a default response if you don't type a response in the prompt dialog box. For example, the field
{ ASK Typist "Enter typist's initials:" \d "tds" } assigns "tds" to the bookmark "Typist" if you don't enter a response.If you don't specify a default response, Word uses the last response entered. To specify a blank entry as the default, type empty quotation marks after the switch; for example, type \d "" .
- \o
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When used in a mail merge main document, displays the prompt once instead of each time you merge a new data record. The same response is inserted in each resulting merged document.