Hi Rich,

I usually get batches of small Word documents (50 - 100
files) for translation. Some of the files only contain 1
word or a few sentences.

Someone had helped me with a Macro before that imports
all the files into one Word file. I do the translation in
this file which is a lot faster and easier for me. The
problem is that I have to copy & paste the text back into
their original files once I am done. And this still takes
ages.

My suggestion would be to use this same approach (inserting
files into a single file), but do so with a link. The result
of this is an IncludeText field, and one litte-known but
very useful thing you can do with an IncludeText field is
send changes you make in the linked text back to the source
document. Just click in the field (the linked text) and
press Ctrl+Shift+F7.

If the original macro was designed using InsertFile, you
should be able to make one small change (activating the
Linking parameter) and you'd be all set. You might want to
copy/paste the macro into a reply if you don't know how to
do this yourself.

Does anyone know of any Macro or anything else that would
allow me to work on all these files in 1 document but be
able to update all the original files?


Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun
8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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