I've get the question to make an project document template.


Based on the selection of the project phase, it needs to close some chapters and open some others.

The idea is to reuse the document from phase1 by change the active-x selection to phase2 that will close some chapters and open some new chapters to be filed in.

This to avoid copy pasting information form phase1 document to phase2 document but simply don't close the shared chapters .

But I can't find a way to open and close the chapters by VBA even you can do this by clicking the gray arrow in front of the chapters heading .

Does anyone have an idea on fixing this?
Ore better, does someone have an small example?

Thanks for you support.

So why not use a separate document for each chapter? If you need to have them all together for print purposes, they could be linked to another document via INCLUDETEXT fields.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Good question!
The reason why is simple: They don's want to have the risk of wrong copy past from data between documents. The second they want the option to look back by opening the closed chapter in stead of opening an older/other document.

You comment about 'the risk of wrong copy past from data between documents' makes no sense to me. If you give the 'closed' one read-only protection, there is minimal risk of anything being copied to it. Besides which, how is someone going to access the content of a 'closed' chapter if it's in the same document?

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

You are right, I didn't get your answer the first time. You suggested to make a document of every Chapter. My first reaction to the question was to make 4 different phase documents. In that case you will have to copy some chapters from one phase document to an onter.
The whole idea is to leave all on one document en simply collapse (close) the chapters you don't need to fill for that particular phase.

Than you still have only one document for an project instead of 21 (if I split the document on the chapters).

I thought the idea is simple, make an multiple choice field (Phase 1 till Phase 4)
Then hide/collapse all the chapters that are not needed for that Phase. Clean and simple.

Can you put me in the right direction for that?
Thanks.

You can't 'collapse' content in a Word document...

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Thanks for your answer. Than I need to find another solution.
Good to know that this idea is a dead end.

I think the best way to zolfe the issue is to make 4 phase documents and automate the copy of content from one phase to another. Ore do you have an other direction to solve the problem.

Thanks for your support.