I’ve read something about making each field an REF field, but I don’t understand how to do it, and I’ve tried tons of Google search results. Is there a way to autopopulate a field? I’d like it to work similar to Adobe, where if you give the fields the same name, the text in one will automatically fill up in all of the others. Making them all a field will mean that the assistant will have to retype the same word at least 23 times in a will. As of now, all the paralegal has to do is do a find/replace and change all the sons, to daughters, or children, and wife to husband, etc.

make all of those relationships fields, but I think that would be longer.

There are several places in the will, where it will say, “I leave my sons…or my wife, Mary,” for example. She gave me a sample will, medical power of attorney, and some correspondence. I’m trying to create some forms for our estates and trusts attorney. If you’ve tried to make yourself a homegrown forms database, knowing that you’ll have to go in each time and fill in the variable information (name, he/she, his/her, son/daughter/children, etc.) in all (and I do mean all) the right places, then you can appreciate this reader’s dilemma: Ever had one of those forms that repeats someone’s name or some other piece of information, um, repeatedly? Say, a will or a power of attorney or something similar?

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