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Three almost identical manuals
Thanks to everyone who replied to my post! I have settled on a combination
solution: hidden text and IncludeText fields. Hidden Text I plan to create the following character styles: ManualA, ManualB, and ManualC. If I need to print A, I'll add the Hidden attribute to the B and C character styles. Of course the same goes for printing B or C. IncludeText Fields Many of you have pointed out that hidden text runs amok when you hide numbered fields such as headings or lines from a numbered list. When I must make large blocks of text (such as chapters) conditional, I plan to use the IncludeText fields to change which source files MS-Word pulls text from. I got the idea from a wonderful article written Daiya Mitchell and Cindy Meister: http://daiya.mvps.org/includetext.htm#FilePaths Many thanks to all! José "Jose Valdes" wrote in message ... I am writing three manuals that are almost identical. However, each manual has some unique content. As a former user of Adobe FrameMaker, my rash impulse was to use VBA to recreate the Condition Text feature in MS Word. Here's how it works: Info unique to manual A appears in these markup tags: ManualAContentOpen and ManualAContentClose. Manuals B and C have similar tags. If I want to print manual A, VBA scripts format B and C content as hidden text (Format menu | Font | Hidden checkbox). Content for A is not hidden, but VBA scripts hide markup tags. I have already starting this work and feel competent enough to complete it. I fear, however, that I might be giving into my dark impulses to play with VBA instead of writing. ;-) I was hired to be a writer of course. Does feature exist already somewhere? Am I on the right track? |
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