I have enabled the ‘Developer’ ribbon but I am sorry I don’t know anything about how to accomplish what I need in MS Word and so I may well be asking a lot, but could you advise if it is possible to do the following:
I would like to build a document from a suite of standard paragraphs by pulling certain ones into a single MS Word document.
Within the build doc I would like to associate a title with each paragraph that lives in a single separate source word document or if easier have each of the source paragraphs in a separate individual word file within a folder.
Within the build document there would be a ‘tick’ list of paragraph titles.
When a box next to a paragraph title is ticked that paragraph is sucked into the document. Space automatically created for it. The paragraphs build based on the boxes ticked. If a box is un-ticked the paragraph is deleted.
It would be nice if a subsequently deleted paragraph also took the associated number of blank lines out, but if this is difficult then the user can just delete any excess lines.
Also once the source paragraphs have been pulled in the author may need to edit the text to customise it slightly.
When the document is complete the tick list could remain in place as part of the document if this is easier than working out a way of hiding it.
The document will be converted to pdf at the end in order to ‘fix it’ and so leaving the tick boxes on show wouldn’t be a problem.
The idea is to effectively automate what would otherwise be achieved by a laborious cut and paste exercise.
It would be really appreciated if you could give me some brief advice on how best to achieve the above. I was also thinking about drop down lists, but after some thought I prefer the tick box approach if at all possible.
Could you point me to some tutorial material on something like this?
Many thanks