The
template featured on this page began life as a protected form I prepared
for a private client, but I felt that I could adapt it to make it more
generally applicable by means of a userform which drives the template to
populate a variety of document variables, which can be employed in the
documents created from the template' to produce rental agreements for
holiday homes, apartments etc.
The body of
the template contains the example rental agreement for a property
belonging to fictitious holiday rental called Aloha Holidays. The
document part of the template is not protected in any way and can be
freely edited to include whatever text, layout or logos that you
require, in conjunction with docvariable fields (some of which are shown
in the illustration below - and all of which are listed in plain text on
the last page of the template document for convenience) that place the
variable information from the userform into the finished documents. The
'value' column is empty because the fields initially have no values.
Create a document from the template and that document will be filled
with the values from the userform. Obviously you would delete the last
page from the sample template when making personal changes and before
Saving As with a new name.
The
initial template is in US Letter paper size, but the page layout can be
changed to A4, or whatever other page size you require. To aid its
multi-national credentials, you can setup the date format, and the
currency used in the document. The template even includes alternate UK
and US English spellings. Currently these are dependent upon the
currency symbol, however if there is sufficient demand I will modify the
template to detect the Windows regional settings instead.
The userform dates use the short date
format of the current Windows regional setting. Some of the
illustrations below show US format dates, others show UK format dates.
This is purely for the point of demonstration. Users' date formats will
be consistent.
The
finished documents use the date format set in the configuration.
The macros
which drive the userform are protected from viewing.
The template features a ribbon tab from which the user
can recall the UserForm, and create a PDF version of the finished
document. The Display Userform ribbon button will read existing field
information from the document for ease of re-editing - e.g. to change a
date or add a guest.