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need recommendation or ideas
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I've got a client who use word for book creation i.e. User books which demand TOC, indexes, chapter creation leading to putting the whole book together. Master/Sub documents do not work for them in consolidating all elements of the book. They've had someone create a few macros for them to automate parts of the work but will soon not have access to that person. A company I used to work for had developed a custom version of word that automated everything. Unfortunately it is supported only up to word 97 version - it would have been perfect for them. Can anyone recommend an off-the-shelf custom version of word that would automate long document creation without the user having to create all of the code? thanks for your help |
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need recommendation or ideas
Hard to make suggestions without some clue as to what it is you want to
automate. Word already does chapters, TOC, and indexes. "Julie" wrote in message ... hi I've got a client who use word for book creation i.e. User books which demand TOC, indexes, chapter creation leading to putting the whole book together. Master/Sub documents do not work for them in consolidating all elements of the book. They've had someone create a few macros for them to automate parts of the work but will soon not have access to that person. A company I used to work for had developed a custom version of word that automated everything. Unfortunately it is supported only up to word 97 version - it would have been perfect for them. Can anyone recommend an off-the-shelf custom version of word that would automate long document creation without the user having to create all of the code? thanks for your help |
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Thanks for responding.
Yes, word does all that but it's a very manual effort even using styles. What the program I used did was provide a menu which listed items one could create i.e. TOC, Chapter, Title page, etc. Once you got all the chapters done you ran a macro that put all chapters in order, automatically went through the document and created the TOC in a pre-exiting template (there were additional templates added to the main word template (normal.dot), all with the correct headers and footers that named each chapter, made sure to start on odd page, etc. After performing that step you ran a program to automatically create a concordance file for an index based on styles - it was a program that went through the entire document. Then you'd run the last macro to put everything together. It was truly a thing of beauty and I miss it. I know this custom word solution contained components such as auto text entries (pre-populated), additional templates on top of the normal.dot, and many, many macros. It initially took the company 16 months to develop the in-house product. Does that give you a better idea? "Jezebel" wrote in message ... Hard to make suggestions without some clue as to what it is you want to automate. Word already does chapters, TOC, and indexes. "Julie" wrote in message ... hi I've got a client who use word for book creation i.e. User books which demand TOC, indexes, chapter creation leading to putting the whole book together. Master/Sub documents do not work for them in consolidating all elements of the book. They've had someone create a few macros for them to automate parts of the work but will soon not have access to that person. A company I used to work for had developed a custom version of word that automated everything. Unfortunately it is supported only up to word 97 version - it would have been perfect for them. Can anyone recommend an off-the-shelf custom version of word that would automate long document creation without the user having to create all of the code? thanks for your help |
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