Issue: To maintain consistency in spelling, grammar, and content.

When one copies and pastes text in various parts of their document (example:
Procedure manual where certain basic procedures are repeated often) and you
would like that original copied block of text to update itself with any
changes you make to the pasted block of text, it would be highly beneficial
if WORD would give you the option to update changes to the copied text.

I am not sure if Track changes will let me do this. I have tried but to no
avail.

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Word does give you that option, but you have to specifically tell it when
you used text you want to update. We certainly would NOT want it to update
any text that had ever been copied and edited, that would be a Bad Thing 95%
of the time.

See he
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Repeating_Data.htm



On 9/20/05 6:01 PM, "Nifty" wrote:

Issue: To maintain consistency in spelling, grammar, and content.

When one copies and pastes text in various parts of their document (example:
Procedure manual where certain basic procedures are repeated often) and you
would like that original copied block of text to update itself with any
changes you make to the pasted block of text, it would be highly beneficial
if WORD would give you the option to update changes to the copied text.

I am not sure if Track changes will let me do this. I have tried but to no
avail.

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"Nifty" wrote in message
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Issue: To maintain consistency in spelling, grammar, and content.

When one copies and pastes text in various parts of their document
(example:
Procedure manual where certain basic procedures are repeated often) and
you
would like that original copied block of text to update itself with any
changes you make to the pasted block of text, it would be highly
beneficial
if WORD would give you the option to update changes to the copied text.

I am not sure if Track changes will let me do this. I have tried but to no
avail.

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Excellent options offered in other replies, but...

It seems, in the first place, quite redundant to 'repeatedly' paste the
exact content throughout a document. Might it not be worth considering
including the content _once_ or as an addendum of some sort & using multiple
cross-references to it?

Regards |:)

"Nifty" wrote:

Issue: To maintain consistency in spelling, grammar, and content.

When one copies and pastes text in various parts of their document (example:
Procedure manual where certain basic procedures are repeated often) and you
would like that original copied block of text to update itself with any
changes you make to the pasted block of text, it would be highly beneficial
if WORD would give you the option to update changes to the copied text.

I am not sure if Track changes will let me do this. I have tried but to no
avail.

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suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
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click "I Agree" in the message pane.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm....word.newusers