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Old 03-17-2018, 05:03 PM
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I would like some advice. One caveat: the user is not very tech-savvy.



I have one main word document. I want to add multiple (20 or more) word documents (some one-page, others two or more) and I want to be able to edit the originals and have the changes carried into the main document.

I can do “Insert text from file” but the changes are not carried over. So I can either change in both places or redo the insert. Sloppy.

Insert a linked word doc object works great for one-page docs, but there is a limit of one-page objects so the second etc pages do not show up in the main document.

I was going to try INCLUDETEXT, but this is not really a viable alternative because of the user involved.

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IncludeText is the method, though. If you are afraid of the two-way link, make the source files read-only.
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I was going to try INCLUDETEXT, but this is not really a viable alternative because of the user involved.
How is that so?
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First, thanks for your help.

Second, INCLUDETEXT was an excellent answer. I had not realized that I could use INSERT>Object>Text from File>then Insert as Link

It works great.

Third, on another similar thread someone wanted to not have use an exact address for the file. I discovered while testing that I could just use the "filename" as long as it was in the same folder.
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Using just the filename in an INCLUDETEXT field is unreliable and can lead to problems when the file or its folder are moved. If you want relative folder addressing, check out the solution in my Word Fields and Relative Paths to External Files thread: https://www.msofficeforums.com/word/...nal-files.html
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