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Making text dynamic

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Making text dynamic

You can replace existing text with dynamic text, or you can place dynamic text at a given 
insertion point on the page. 

To add dynamic text:

1.

Open the Bindings panel by choosing Window > Bindings.

2.

Make sure the Bindings panel lists the content source you want to use. 

The content source should contain plain text (ASCII text). Plain text includes HTML. If 
no content sources appear in the list, or if the available content sources don’t meet your 
needs, click the Plus (+) button to define a new content source. (See 

.)

3.

In Design view, select text on the page, or click where you want to add dynamic text.

4.

In the Bindings panel, select a content source from the list. If you select a recordset, specify 
the column you want in the recordset.

5.

Click Insert, or drag the content source onto the page.

The dynamic content appears on the page if you’re working in Design view with Live Data 
turned on (View > Live Data).

If Live Data is turned off, a placeholder appears instead. (If you selected text on the page, the 
placeholder replaces the text selection.) The placeholder for recordset content uses the syntax 

{RecordsetName.ColumnName}

, where 

Recordset

 is the name of the recordset and 

ColumnName

 is the name of the column you chose from the recordset. 

Sometimes, the length of the placeholders for dynamic text distorts the page’s layout in the 
Document window. You can solve the problem by using empty curly braces as placeholders.