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Links to Other Word Documents
My name is Marla and I am a senior in college. I am enrolled in the
Information Science and Technology Program and for our final class we have been "hired" by a company to come up with a system for organizing their complex word documents. (There are about 50 documents with about 50 pages). These documents have components that are global to all, global to some, and also some that are completely local. The main problem is that in order to change one section of data, they must change it in (worst case) 50 documents. We are to propose a solution to them that allows information to be stored in one word document with the ability to be pulled from as many as needed. (Eliminate redundancies) The problem we face is that our client wants to be able to print the linked documents as if they are one document. We have it to the point where we can get the first page of the linked document to print. Any Suggestions?? |
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Hi ?B?TWFybGFQU1U=?=,
Take a look at the IncludeText field (Insert/File with a LINK). My name is Marla and I am a senior in college. I am enrolled in the Information Science and Technology Program and for our final class we have been "hired" by a company to come up with a system for organizing their complex word documents. (There are about 50 documents with about 50 pages). These documents have components that are global to all, global to some, and also some that are completely local. The main problem is that in order to change one section of data, they must change it in (worst case) 50 documents. We are to propose a solution to them that allows information to be stored in one word document with the ability to be pulled from as many as needed. (Eliminate redundancies) The problem we face is that our client wants to be able to print the linked documents as if they are one document. We have it to the point where we can get the first page of the linked document to print. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Hey Cindy,
inserting the file brings the text into the new documents but it doesn't eliminate redundancies--Say the data changes-you still have to edit every place you inserted the document. Do you have something that will fix this problem as well?? Thanks for the help thus far, marla "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: Hi ?B?TWFybGFQU1U=?=, Take a look at the IncludeText field (Insert/File with a LINK). My name is Marla and I am a senior in college. I am enrolled in the Information Science and Technology Program and for our final class we have been "hired" by a company to come up with a system for organizing their complex word documents. (There are about 50 documents with about 50 pages). These documents have components that are global to all, global to some, and also some that are completely local. The main problem is that in order to change one section of data, they must change it in (worst case) 50 documents. We are to propose a solution to them that allows information to be stored in one word document with the ability to be pulled from as many as needed. (Eliminate redundancies) The problem we face is that our client wants to be able to print the linked documents as if they are one document. We have it to the point where we can get the first page of the linked document to print. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Hi ?B?TWFybGFQU1U=?=,
inserting the file brings the text into the new documents but it doesn't eliminate redundancies--Say the data changes-you still have to edit every place you inserted the document. Do you have something that will fix this problem as well?? If you insert the file with a LINK, then all you need to do is change the text in the file being linked in - it will change in all the documents. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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I tried that and it looks like its going to work but it only brings in the
first page of the document im inserting. how can i get it to bring in the whole document?? thank you sooo much for your time and help, marla "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: Hi ?B?TWFybGFQU1U=?=, inserting the file brings the text into the new documents but it doesn't eliminate redundancies--Say the data changes-you still have to edit every place you inserted the document. Do you have something that will fix this problem as well?? If you insert the file with a LINK, then all you need to do is change the text in the file being linked in - it will change in all the documents. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Hi ?B?TWFybGFQU1U=?=,
I tried that and it looks like its going to work but it only brings in the first page of the document im inserting. how can i get it to bring in the whole document?? I take it you're trying this through Insert/Object? Try following my instructions: Insert/FILE. There's an option in there to link to the file, but since you don't tell me the version of Word involved, I can't tell you where to find that. Do some detective work :-) Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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