I have a userform that helps me create a meeting minutes report. It has a bookmark called MeetingFrequency which offers combobox values such as Monthly, Weekly, etc. This field comes before the MeetingTitle bookmark. Since not all meeting titles require a meeting frequency to precede it, one of the values I offer my users for MeetingFrequency is “blank”. When they select blank, my code sets MeetingFrequency to “”. However, my report has a REF to the bookmark where the meeting title repeats on a later page, and when the bookmark is blank I get an error message where the REF field is (where I would like “nothing” to be). Is there a simple way that a very low-level VBA programmer such as myself can fix this problem? Replacing “””” with a single space in my code comes close, but it results in either too many or not enough spaces in the report.
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AskWoody LoungerOctober 26, 2010 at 11:30 am #1251905 -
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AskWoody LoungerOctober 27, 2010 at 1:58 am #1252006As a quick fix, you could leave one of the spaces out of the document itself and add one to each of your options, so you’d have ‘weekly ‘, ‘monthly ‘ and ‘ ‘ (or before the word, if that fits in better with your document). Then do the same at the other location where the info is used – leave a space out of the text and use the one in the options instead.
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