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I didn't pick the format to send them out in either, or I would have recommended/researched out a better option prior to starting the project.

Bummer. I am willing to bet that it could be done better.

Thee are a lot of factors, and I have to start with some assumptions.

ALL of the returning documents use the SAME logic. That is, a document from Yogi Bear that answers Yes to question 33 gets the SAME response as a docment from Bugs Bunny that also answers Yes to question 33.

ALL of the boilerplate chunks are in ONE document, and those chunks are bookmarked.

ALL of the boilerplate chunks are text, no graphics.

The response documents are identical in that they are built (being the only difference) from the boilerplate chunks. Identifying elements can be built into this.

The working environments in Word will be only the template with the code and the incoming question document. Note if this is the case, and the boilerplate document contains just text, the boilerplate document does not have to be open.This method uses INCLUDETEXT fields, which simply act as pointers.



There are issues with this simple method, and there are certainly other means to achieve what you want, but this may be a start.

BTW, what version of Word are you using

I know it could be done better. I think we could have used Survey Monkey or something similar with much better results, but I have to live with it. The template has gone out already.

The rest of your assumptions are correct. If question 1 on any response is no it will always get the same exact boilerplate language, so I think all of your assumptions and what you talk about with the response document (what I called document B, in my example) not needing to be open is exactly how I would like to do this.

And finally, I'm on Office 2013 at home, Office 2007 at work, but the templates were all built using Office 2007.

Thanks again for your help, I appreciate it.

Dave