Hello. Over the years I have become more knowledgeable of MS Access and all the things it can do, realizing that I only scratched the surface. I think that's where I am now with MS Word 2007. And I need some expert advise.



At work our new boss wants a weekly activity report. He has 10 specific topics he wants captured. I'll call them Topics 1,2,3,4, 5, .... We have 5 separate departments that will be reporting, Dept A, B, C, D, and E. My staff has the job of pulling everything together into a single report that looks like this:

Topic 1
- Dept A ... (and each department can have multiple inputs for each topic)
-- input 1
-- input 2 ...
- Dept B ...
- Dept C ...
- Dept D ...
- Dept E ...

Topic 2
- Dept A ....
- Dept B ....

So we're doing a lot of copy/paste from multiple Word documents.

I have never done programming in Word but am just asking now - is it possible to automate this - the bringing together of 5 Word documents in a cohesive, structured report like this?

If it is, I need to get started learning how. But right now just want to understand the capabilities of Word. I think I could do this in Access but the majority of folks in our office are much more familiar with Word.

Appreciate any advise from the Word experts on here.

Thanks!!

Kannon