In my job I have to create Statements of Work all the time. About 50% of the
SOW is always the same text. Things like IP intellectual property, travel
policy, liability sections never change and must always be present. But
about 25% of the sections come or go depending upon the client or situation.
For federal business we need system integrator info, and for commercial
customer we need different stuff, so I must add or delete sections or
clauses. And finally about 25% is usually there but the wording my change
slightly like the scope statement or the deliverables.

I would like to have some type of super document that contained all the 57
different flavors of the SOW and then I could use some other thing to drive
it. Sort of like a profile form that got filled out for what was accepted or
declined and once combined it would automagically add or delete the needed
section and the result would be a Statement of Work document that would
contain just the sections that I needed.

Is this possible and if so how?

Either create a job lot of autotext entries to represent the texts or create
a document containing all of them and bookmark each text. You can then use
autotext or includetext fileds to insert the texts as required.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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looking for a smarter way to work wrote:
In my job I have to create Statements of Work all the time. About
50% of the SOW is always the same text. Things like IP intellectual
property, travel policy, liability sections never change and must
always be present. But about 25% of the sections come or go
depending upon the client or situation. For federal business we need
system integrator info, and for commercial customer we need different
stuff, so I must add or delete sections or clauses. And finally
about 25% is usually there but the wording my change slightly like
the scope statement or the deliverables.

I would like to have some type of super document that contained all
the 57 different flavors of the SOW and then I could use some other
thing to drive it. Sort of like a profile form that got filled out
for what was accepted or declined and once combined it would
automagically add or delete the needed section and the result would
be a Statement of Work document that would contain just the sections
that I needed.

Is this possible and if so how?