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Document properties used across multiple documents
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I have been asked to create a set of starting documents (probably about 20 documents in the set) that can be configured and used at the start of a project. I need to have information entered in one document and then be able to accesss this information to poulate headers/footers and fields throughout the set of documents. I thought about creating custom document properties for the first document with a vba form so that they can be updated easily without having to navigate through the word menus. I am not sure how to then get these properties accessible in other documents. I do not want to use Master documents. We are using Word 2007 but should remain compatible with Word 2003. The people using these documents are not expert word users so it needs to be foolproof and simple. Any ideas? -- Carol Lutz |
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Document properties used across multiple documents
On the face of it IncludeText fields from bookmarked items in the source
document should fill the requirement of a document to contain the repeatable data, but the terms 'simple' and 'foolproof' do not rest easily with it. You could perhaps make it so by saving the relevant includetext fields pre-configured as autotext/autocorrect entries. It would however be all to easy when updating the source document to delete the bookmarks and render it all inoperable so maybe more than one source document would be advisable if you are letting inexperienced users loose on that source document? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org CarolL wrote: Hi, I have been asked to create a set of starting documents (probably about 20 documents in the set) that can be configured and used at the start of a project. I need to have information entered in one document and then be able to accesss this information to poulate headers/footers and fields throughout the set of documents. I thought about creating custom document properties for the first document with a vba form so that they can be updated easily without having to navigate through the word menus. I am not sure how to then get these properties accessible in other documents. I do not want to use Master documents. We are using Word 2007 but should remain compatible with Word 2003. The people using these documents are not expert word users so it needs to be foolproof and simple. Any ideas? |
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