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Script a Template
I have set up a pitch template for the company, incorporating house styles,
headers footers, page numbering TOC etc. I would like help in determining how best to share this document, in terms of avoiding having to reformat over and over because other users tend to add their text to it and then I end up having to reformat it. Ideally I would like a scenario where the user opens the template, saves as a new document (which populates the title page) but then asks for individual department entries etc. I want to be able to set the document so that the title pages and the headers and footers and styles cant be touched. And so that individual departments within the firm only enter text into their own "space" in the document. Can anyone help? I am thinking forms but not sure if that is the correct way forward. Many thanks I have thought about entering field code boxes to enable the text to be added with the styles already applied. often the document would be opened, saved and then distributed to several people who add their own text (often cut and pasted in in all different fonts) and then it is edited. I would like to avoid having to go through and reformat everything as often have the strucutre and layout set up but want to know the best way of adding te headings and footers and styles running smoothly however I want the users to be able to answer |
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Script a Template
You need to research how templates work, which is not how you are planning
to use them. Save the document *as a template* then create new documents from it. The template remains untouched by the user. You may find http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Letterhead.htm useful. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org DebbieD wrote: I have set up a pitch template for the company, incorporating house styles, headers footers, page numbering TOC etc. I would like help in determining how best to share this document, in terms of avoiding having to reformat over and over because other users tend to add their text to it and then I end up having to reformat it. Ideally I would like a scenario where the user opens the template, saves as a new document (which populates the title page) but then asks for individual department entries etc. I want to be able to set the document so that the title pages and the headers and footers and styles cant be touched. And so that individual departments within the firm only enter text into their own "space" in the document. Can anyone help? I am thinking forms but not sure if that is the correct way forward. Many thanks I have thought about entering field code boxes to enable the text to be added with the styles already applied. often the document would be opened, saved and then distributed to several people who add their own text (often cut and pasted in in all different fonts) and then it is edited. I would like to avoid having to go through and reformat everything as often have the strucutre and layout set up but want to know the best way of adding te headings and footers and styles running smoothly however I want the users to be able to answer |
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Script a Template
Or see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart1.htm.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... You need to research how templates work, which is not how you are planning to use them. Save the document *as a template* then create new documents from it. The template remains untouched by the user. You may find http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Letterhead.htm useful. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org DebbieD wrote: I have set up a pitch template for the company, incorporating house styles, headers footers, page numbering TOC etc. I would like help in determining how best to share this document, in terms of avoiding having to reformat over and over because other users tend to add their text to it and then I end up having to reformat it. Ideally I would like a scenario where the user opens the template, saves as a new document (which populates the title page) but then asks for individual department entries etc. I want to be able to set the document so that the title pages and the headers and footers and styles cant be touched. And so that individual departments within the firm only enter text into their own "space" in the document. Can anyone help? I am thinking forms but not sure if that is the correct way forward. Many thanks I have thought about entering field code boxes to enable the text to be added with the styles already applied. often the document would be opened, saved and then distributed to several people who add their own text (often cut and pasted in in all different fonts) and then it is edited. I would like to avoid having to go through and reformat everything as often have the strucutre and layout set up but want to know the best way of adding te headings and footers and styles running smoothly however I want the users to be able to answer |
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