Can I pre-populate a Word or PDF document?

This request is for a home care agency. There is an elaborate form that must be completed periodically called a CMS - 485. There are tons of fields and a lot of formatting of the document. I currently have the document in Word format.

We keep the information for participants in a database. I would like to prepopulate SOME fields in the Word document with the information in my database. To know things like the name and address. Date of birth, SSN, etc. Basic demographic data that are available in my readilly database.

I can generate my site in any format form, really. PDF would be perfect. Word would be perfect. My goal is to go to the customer information screen in my application (already done), and then click a button to generate a CMS-485 vacuum that is prérenseigné with the inorimation population base.

I know that I can create an HTML element or report builder version of the report, but which would be absolutely formidable given the complexity of this form. Since it is already in Word format, I can use the work that has already been done and you easier on myself?

BTW: CF 7.02

In fact, we do a lot of that kind of thing. If you treat only this 1 form and know that your form will not be changed anytime soon, we have found that the simplest solution is to do something like this:

(1) save your form in PDF format
(2) manually build the fields in your form using Adobe Acrobat
3) there are a number of technologies that you can use to pre-fill the PDF form fields
A. you can create a FDF (a little outdated at this point) PostScript file
B. a coutesy of Ben Forta's much better solution: http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/7/27/cf_pdfform

Not sure to do the same thing in word. You could probably do something with java Jakarta POI package, but without doubt it would be rediculously complicated for what you're trying to do.

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