I would again urge you to look into the possibility of AutoText stored in a global template (or the attached template) accessed using an AutoText field instead of the IncludeText field.

I admit this sounded like a lot to learn about, especially considering that the IncludeText approach is working-- almost. My included text has to be fully formatted and will include some fairly big chunks, whereas Autotext seems oriented toward small insertions such as a standard salutation. Would the global template work by using links to files? Is there a discussion of this use somewhere on the web?

I have not suggested omitting the path; what I have suggested is using a FILENAME field to generate it. If you simply omit the path, Word is liable to add one of its own that sticks when the folder is changed. You won't see that in the field code, but it'll be buried behind the scenes in Word's metacode. The FILENAME field takes care of that.

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What {FILENAME \p} gives me is the full path plus the file name, but what I want is *only* the shared document's full path, appended to the name of the file to be included. In other words I need the equivalent of VBA's ActiveDocument.path. Is there a way to get only the path?

That's what the field code does! The '/../' strips off the document name, leaving just the path.

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First, if anyone knows about Word fields, it is Paul.

AutoText can contain multiple pages. It can contain large tables. I don't know whether it can include a Section Break. I've never tried. I'm sure that there are limits, but they must be truly large. With the AutoText you do not have to worry about bookmarks.

A template containing AutoText can be loaded as a Global Template. When it is, the relative path to the document using the AutoText is irrelevant. Formatting is best done through Styles using either AutoText or IncludeText.

It would be possible to have different templates holding the AutoText in different locations. The template would have AutoText entries with the same name but different content to suit the location. In a case where you are working on three company's documents on the same computer, you could manually load the different templates as Add-Ins.

If you are getting the IncludeText to work for you, great. When I posted my last comment, it looked like you were getting bogged down in the relative path problem.

Thank you for the explanation. I'd still want to see an example of how this is done. In the meantime, I'm using the {FILENAME \p}\..\ variable. I misunderstood the notation in that, not realizing the ".." needed to be used literally-- I thought I needed to substitute something. I notice it's faster, with less hiccupping, than the first way I did it.

See: https://www.msofficeforums.com/word/...html#post31405

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