From the course: Word: Mail Merge in Depth
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Prompt for repeating input with ASK
From the course: Word: Mail Merge in Depth
Prompt for repeating input with ASK
- [Instructor] Here's a slightly different use case. In this version of the letter, we want to mention the discount, not once but twice. If I use FILLIN to do this, I'll actually have to prompt the user twice to enter the discount and that gives us lots of opportunity to mess this up where we enter one number at the top and at the bottom a different one. 25% and then later, 20 perhaps. If I'm going to use a piece of information once in a letter then I use FILLIN. But if I'm going to use it more than once, then I use another rule called Ask. Let's see how this is going to work. Let's hold Alt and hit F9 so that we can take a look at our document called Ask. Here are our codes for our address block and our greetings. That looks great. And now we need to prompt for what the discount should be. Now I don't have to do it right here, I can actually prompt up here at the top making it easier to read the actual text in my…
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