Linking two Write documents together

To create a one-way link between a field, say janprofits, in a Write document called report, and a field, say monthtotal, in a Write document called annuals, where the link is from report to annuals, follow these steps:

  1. You first need to create a field in report. Select Field from the Insert menu. Enter janprofits for the field name (which is obviously more descriptive than the default name of Field1), click the Next button, and enter 1276.34 as the field contents in the Formula entry line. Click the Finish button.

  2. Switch to annuals and click where you want the field to appear. Select Field from the Insert menu. Enter monthtotal for the field name and click the Next button. Click the Functions button and select WPGET from the Remote function category. Enter the document name and field name into the function, so that the formula appears as follows:

     =WPGET("report", "janprofits")

    Click the Finish button.

  3. The field will appear in the document. Click outside the field to activate the one-way link. The value from the report document, 1276.34, will appear in the document.

Note that the example assumes that the two documents are in the same folder. If they are not, use the full document path of the source document. For example,

=WPGET("c:\my documents\report", "janprofits").