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I'm looking for some suggestions to get this to work. Or to be told it
can't be done. Like any organization, we have a letterhead template. It has a banner across the top and down the left side. Works fine. Users have made their own form letters based on the letterhead template and then pre-filling in the body of the letter. My problem is that several times a year, content changes can be made to the letterhead that don't always get reflected into these other templates. What I would like to do is when their DOT is opened, it would automatically embed the current letterhead template. I've been experimenting with Master and subdocuments and making the letterhead template part of the body in the subdoc. One problem is that I'd prefer to have it open in print layout view instead of outline view. I put some code as an AutoNew macro that changes the view. But I also get an message about the two templates being different andthat the master document will be used. Also, I sometimes get a blank first page and then the letterhead on the second. Anyone have any suggestions? Is there a better way then what I am doing? Marten |
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In your templates, use an INCLUDETEXT field to reference the data that may
change and in an Autonew macro in the templates, include code to update the fields in the header. When it comes time to change the data, change it in the document to which the INCLUDETEXT fields refer. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Marten" wrote in message ... I'm looking for some suggestions to get this to work. Or to be told it can't be done. Like any organization, we have a letterhead template. It has a banner across the top and down the left side. Works fine. Users have made their own form letters based on the letterhead template and then pre-filling in the body of the letter. My problem is that several times a year, content changes can be made to the letterhead that don't always get reflected into these other templates. What I would like to do is when their DOT is opened, it would automatically embed the current letterhead template. I've been experimenting with Master and subdocuments and making the letterhead template part of the body in the subdoc. One problem is that I'd prefer to have it open in print layout view instead of outline view. I put some code as an AutoNew macro that changes the view. But I also get an message about the two templates being different andthat the master document will be used. Also, I sometimes get a blank first page and then the letterhead on the second. Anyone have any suggestions? Is there a better way then what I am doing? Marten |
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