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Originally Posted by ChrisBrewster
I admit this sounded like a lot to learn about, especially considering that the IncludeText approach is working-- almost. My included text has to be fully formatted and will include some fairly big chunks, whereas Autotext seems oriented toward small insertions such as a standard salutation. Would the global template work by using links to files? Is there a discussion of this use somewhere on the web?
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First, if anyone knows about Word fields, it is Paul.
AutoText can contain multiple pages. It can contain large tables. I don't know whether it can include a Section Break. I've never tried. I'm sure that there are limits, but they must be truly large. With the AutoText you do not have to worry about bookmarks.
A template containing AutoText can be loaded as a
Global Template. When it is, the relative path to the document using the AutoText is irrelevant. Formatting is best done through Styles using either AutoText or IncludeText.
It would be possible to have different templates holding the AutoText in different locations. The template would have AutoText entries with the same name but different content to suit the location. In a case where you are working on three company's documents on the same computer, you could manually load the different templates as Add-Ins.
If you are getting the IncludeText to work for you, great. When I posted my last comment, it looked like you were getting bogged down in the relative path problem.