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choose sections to fill fillable fields and paragraphs, then custom compile those sections to a word document

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Hello, I`m not sure if Power Apps would be the tool for this job, or if I need to use a combination of VBA and C# instead.

 

I have a word document some 300 pages with different sections. Those sections have fillable fields amongst paragraphs. Including radio boxes and check boxes.

 

When I save this document under a different name it will be with only a small selection of the sections available, depending on the client I have.

 

So each time I open the word doc, I need to delete all the sections I dont need, to format the document with just the sections I do need. Time consuming.

 

I wanted to appify this whole process as follows:

 

1. I open an app page (can be cloud based) with all the sections for the document listed with check boxes.

 

I check a tick box for each section that I want to compile in a word document.

 

2. On the next page, the fillable fields from those sections I choose are then presented to me so that I can fill them all in consecutively without having to scroll between sections in the original document.

 

3. After filling in the fields, I can then compile those filled sections into a word doc with one click, and can make additions or edits to the word doc from there.

 

Can I build this in power Apps? I think it would need more customized coding ability than a drag and drop app builder...? regards,

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  • Scott_Parker Profile Picture
    1,090 on at

    Take this with a grain of salt since I don't have any experience using word documents in Power Apps, but I would be pretty surprised if you could distinguish between section breaks using Power Apps. Probably would have to split it into multiple word documents and then recombine at the end, but this could break most Word specific feature like bookmarks, page numbering and the like.

     

    Since it sounds like this is a tool for your personal use/office use, I think VBA is suitable.

  • eaglemoxy Profile Picture
    3 on at

    Right, thanks for the insight Scott. Yes I was also wondering if powerApps allowed implementation of C# or VBA in its build sequence, as I havent used it yet. But I guess its a closed toolkit where by you use the tools provided, including power Automate connections and thats where the possibilities lay..

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