I use a different email program for these MUUG exchanges and for whatever reason the bells and whistles said it was sending to the group, but after the fact appears it was only sent to Adam. So my apologies I hereby correct my error. Eduard -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [RndTbl] Electronic filling in Manitoba Public Insurance Forms: Billing Travel etc medical expenses Date: 2022-01-21 04:52 From: eh@eduardhiebert.com To: Adam Thompson <athompso@athompso.net> Reply-To: roundtable@muug.ca In short, Adam thanks for sharing of your insight and experience. As a result of your timeliness, as you can see, thanks to yours I will now have an early start. Simultaneously I will add I am literally on an unrelated task focusing on toolmaking, both its functional capacities to do more with less effort. But in short, in areas of my own life, like you I too have more than enough history of been there done that working my way into dead ends. But of course not always Hope can spring eternal and through the collective of MUUG I am now a more comfortable user of safe email and with you having so much more tech background in the area now under discussion, as can be seen from my request, did not want to leave a reasonable stone unturned. But many thanks for turning this stone for me without me having to repeat history. Many thanks and this in such a timely way! Truly Happy New Year to one and all as we do individually and collectively what reasonably can be done, including so to say chewing our own food. Thanks! Eduard On 2022-01-20 20:28, Adam Thompson wrote:

[Replying off-list, since it's not even remotely UNIX-related.]

Been there, done that. You may as well start the manual filling, typing, or writing as soon as you get up. Sorry :-( I'm *very* familiar with those MS Word "forms" that aren't really forms in any programmatic sense. You could write an app in VBA to do it, but that would take a LOT longer than just filling them out yourself. (I should know, I tried.) MPI takes handwritten forms as well as typed or filled out in MS Word. (Not everyone has a computer, or Word, or a working printer, or...) That may or may not be easier for you - depends on how fast you type and mouse versus how fast you can write, I guess? -Adam

-----Original Message----- From: Roundtable <roundtable-bounces@muug.ca> On Behalf Of eh@eduardhiebert.com Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2022 9:40 PM To: roundtable@muug.ca Subject: [RndTbl] Electronic filling in Manitoba Public Insurance Forms: Billing Travel etc medical expenses

With all that knowledge among members, if readily and easily possible without a significant learning curve, can anyone direct me to a program or how to, to easily transfer data I already have in a text file to the attached forms?

MPI has refused my multi pages of billings unless literally on their forms as attached.

I plan on doing it tomorrow and will start the manual method as my last resort by noon.

Thanks,

Eduard