[TKC!]

My 10 year old son wishes to write a "choose your own adventure" story for a
school project. He (and I) need some remedial help.

He will write a portion of the story then present the reader with a choice.
The decision must cause a jump to another portion of the story.
1) What is the best way to create that jump?
2) Ideally the reader will be unable to simply scroll down. Suggestions on
how to lay out the story? Multiple documents, section breaks?
3) He would like the reader to be able to personalize the story. ie change
the name of one of the Characters to the readers name. Is there a way to do
this without leaving instructions to "replace all" - George for David.

He is looking for some key tools that word offers to present the story in a
smooth fashion. No lengthy explanations are necessary. My son is happy to
look it up if he only knows what to inquire about.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

[Jay Freedman]

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:16:01 -0800, TKC!
wrote:

My 10 year old son wishes to write a "choose your own adventure" story for a
school project. He (and I) need some remedial help.

He will write a portion of the story then present the reader with a choice.
The decision must cause a jump to another portion of the story.
1) What is the best way to create that jump?
2) Ideally the reader will be unable to simply scroll down. Suggestions on
how to lay out the story? Multiple documents, section breaks?
3) He would like the reader to be able to personalize the story. ie change
the name of one of the Characters to the readers name. Is there a way to do
this without leaving instructions to "replace all" - George for David.

He is looking for some key tools that word offers to present the story in a
smooth fashion. No lengthy explanations are necessary. My son is happy to
look it up if he only knows what to inquire about.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.


At each point that you want to jump to, insert a bookmark (click
Insert, click Bookmark, enter a unique name, click the Add button).
These can be on different pages in the same document, or in different
documents.

At each point that you want to jump from, insert a hyperlink. Click
Insert, click Hyperlink; select either "Existing File" if the target
is a different document, or select "Place in This Document"; if
necessary select the document's file; and select the bookmark of the
point to jump to. In the top box, enter the text to display at the
point to jump from -- this will be a clickable hyperlink.

The best way to personalize the story is to have the reader enter a
name in the Author box of the File Properties dialog. Anywhere in
the document, you can use the Insert Field dialog to insert an
"Author" field, and that will display the current contents of the box
in the Properties dialog. You can enter the field in as many places as
you want. However, I can't think of any easy way to have it carry over
to other documents, so that would be an argument against
multiple-document stories.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
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