You would only need a bookmarks in the situation where you only want to use a part or parts of John or Jill's reports. e.g.,



I. Introduction.
II. My part.
III. Part of John's part, blah, blah, blah, another part of John's part.
IV. Jills part.

In III you would need bookmarks: INCLUDETEXT "C:\\Reports\\John.doc" Part A} blah, blah, blah INCLUDETEXT "C:\\Reports\\John.doc" Part B }.

So the idea would be to keep John and Jills templates bare bone (i.e., needed data only, no fluff.). Perhaps a table where only the data cells are bookmarked.

Your master template should have the numbering, like I've shown above.

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If I would use a table for a template for them, how could I keep the data cells bookmarked without having the users incidentally erasing them?