I am working on documents with a vendor to my company, and we need to share documents to develop them jointly (with doc control of course). We would also be sharing a template, but all the front matter would be different.

One approach would be for each company to have a front-matter document for each shared publication, and when appropriate, copy the contents of the shared document into the company-specific one. A previous posting of mine asked about IF fields governed by the Company docproperty. If the company-specific document has the Company value, could that apply to the shared material that would be copied in?

Is there a better way to do the whole thing than what I just described? Thanks for any advice-- I hope I'm not in over my head.