Floating Fields

I am trying to add a Floating Field into the body of some text on my form.
This field will simply add the first name of the customer into the text paragraph.
When I select the location where I want the field and insert it, {TextField} appears.
I then create another text field (also named TextField) on the form that I want to link to this one.
However, the customer's name never appears into the floating field.
Is there a proper way to link them?
Thanks,
MN.

If I understand correctly, you want the floating field to reflect what someone has typed in a field somewhere else? So if they type in their name as Hubert, when they scroll down the floating field will also show Hubert?
If that's correct, then I don't think it can be done, as floating fields are basically variables in static text, and I don't think static text can dynamically change like that after the form is rendered. Floating fields need to be bound to some data source (ie: xml data, or database) where the value is available before the form is rendered.
You could probably do what you want using a Text Field instead of a floating field, but you wouldn't be able to inbed the Text Field in static text (though you may be able to design it so that the user doesn't realize this).
H.

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