Hi,



I often have to compile large reports with standardised text. This standardised text is often required to be updated and sometimes may not be required at all. Presently all the text is in a template whether needed or not. What I am usually faced with is a daunting document full of text that is not required. it is also difficult to keep track of what is upto date and is just messy!

My idea is to have a number of seperate ms word files for each topic heading so that they are easily updatable and auditable. I would then like to create a template that allows me to copy the text into the main document with somesort of link. I know how to have a link in a document but I am thinking more along the lines of the text appears through somesort of clever macro. any advice on how best to do this would be greatly appreciated!


Many thanks in advance.

You could have multiple separate source documents (or even a single source document with bookmarked ranges) and use INCLUDTEXT fields to incorporate the source material into a target document. I don't believe you'll find this a significant improvement on what you already have, though. A better approach might be to have a template with the minimum required boilerplate text and however many autotext entries you might need for adding standard additional texts (that may or may not require further editing). See Word's Help file for advice on both approaches.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]