Yes Tony, I may have to do just that. However, the copy will still be
missed. A lot of the Autotext are the same for each office, but just have
office specific data. It's easier to copy the AutoText and then make the
minor mods.
Anyway thanks all for you help.
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Cheers
Carolin
"Tony Jollans" wrote:
Why don't you just have the firm-wide Autotexts / Building Blocks in their
own Template? This could then be rolled out whenever there were changes
without affecting anything else.
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Tony Jollans
Microsoft Word MVP
"Carolin" wrote in message
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We are currently running with Word 2003 and have a highly customised Word
environment. This is applied across 8 offices. Each office has it's own
template that contains Autotext entries specific to that office and firm
wide
Autotext entries. From time to time the firm wide autotext entries may
change and these are copied across to the other templates. I currently
use
the Organiser to do this. Also, when a template suffers bloat and needs
to
be rebuilt, I use the Organiser to copy over macros, Autotext & styles to
the
newly created template.
In Word 2007 I am looking for a method of copying a group of Autotext
entries (or Building Blocks) to another template. I do not want to edit
an
individual Building Block and change it's template. This is too time
consuming when it has to be done over several templates. I haven't
reviewed
the changes to vba at this stage, but this is my next option.
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Cheers
Carolin
"Tony Jollans" wrote:
What are you currently doing in Word 2003 (or whatever version you
currently
have) and in what way would you like to change the behaviour in Word
2007?
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Tony Jollans
Microsoft Word MVP
"Carolin" wrote in message
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Thanks Beth, but this doesn't help me. The organiser is manual and you
can
only edit one Building Block at a time. I need to copy many 'Autotext'
entries to many templates. This is not a one-off task. We
periodically
update the entries.
It may transpire that we change our methods when we move to 2007.
Alternatively I will be looking for a vba solution.
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Cheers
Carolin
"Beth Melton" wrote:
You can copy Building Blocks between templates using the Building
Blocks
Organizer.
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"Carolin" wrote in message
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Cheers
Carolin