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Old 03-21-2014, 06:11 AM
kurt-hectic kurt-hectic is offline Windows 7 32bit Office 2007
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Originally Posted by fumei View Post
Sounds like a job for document variables. While it is probably not a good idea to assign large amounts of text to document variables values, you certainly could:

1. assign a bookmark to a big chunk of text (including a heading)
2. assign the bookmark name to a document variable

It would then be easy to identify, or retrieve, the chunk using bookmarks.
That is precisely what bookmarks do; they are named ranges.
I think I need more flexibility than what document variables offer, but maybe I'm wrong.
The way I understand document variables is that one externally defined value is inserted at the document variables place, such as the author's name or so.
What I require is the ability to select upon insertion of the field/document variable one or more values from a list of keywords and to store these in the document. What is more, there may be multiple keyword lists and also some free-text fields.
The process should be easy enough so that a document editor can also maintain the associated metadata through Word.

Perhaps I would have to develop a plugin that opens a form where the metadata is captured and which then stores the metadata in a field/document variable.
Would that be a feasible approach?

thanks
Kurt
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