I wasn't referring to the use of Word documents as templates (a poor practice), but actual Word templates. Such templates might include boilerplate text you can delete. All Word versions include autotext, which you can use for selectively adding text and/or choosing from a range of text options. Word 2007 & later also support the use of custom Quick Parts that you can use to selectively add boilerplate text but, since you've chosen not to indicate via your profile what Word version you're using, I have not idea whether any of that is relevant to you.

Evidently you haven't looked at the links I provided as, had you taken the time to study their content, you wouldn't still be saying "I do not know how to take my existing templates, code them to automate insertion of data ...".

I don't really know what you mean by 'HotDocs'. Whatever they are, they are not part of Word. Presumably they're something to do with a 3rd-party automation addin, but that's not Word, per se.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]