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Creating "Subdocuments" Within Word
I'm creating a "grail" document in Word 2003. This will describe several
models we use, and will contain instructional/how to, as well as theory and technical info. What I'd like to do is designate a section of text (it may be a paragraph, it may span several pages) with some kind of hidden category, like "instruction" or "technical", etc. It may be that a group of text might fall into more than one category. I know that these categories will be repeated several times within the doument....a paragraph of technical data on page 3, and then a few more on page 9, and then all of pages 12-14, etc. My desire is that once this document is done, I will create a macro that allows people to print a technical manual by having it go through and only print text with a "technical" category assigned, or create a user guide by only printing "instructional" sections. I'm not sure how to do this or if it is even possible. Any thoughts or advice would be appreciated. -- Hmm...they have the Internet on COMPUTERS now! |
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Creating "Subdocuments" Within Word
This is getting a long way away from what Word is designed for. You could
maybe do it by tagging the different categories of text using sequences of bookmarks (Tech_01, Tech_02, Tech_03; User_01, User_02, User_03, etc) then use a macro to mark all text except the bookmarks for the selected category as hidden. I suspect that unless your document is trivial, trying to maintain the content and the bookmarks would be a nightmare. Might be better to stay simple: create a master document with everything in it, then create the set of output documents by manual selection. "MDW" wrote in message ... I'm creating a "grail" document in Word 2003. This will describe several models we use, and will contain instructional/how to, as well as theory and technical info. What I'd like to do is designate a section of text (it may be a paragraph, it may span several pages) with some kind of hidden category, like "instruction" or "technical", etc. It may be that a group of text might fall into more than one category. I know that these categories will be repeated several times within the doument....a paragraph of technical data on page 3, and then a few more on page 9, and then all of pages 12-14, etc. My desire is that once this document is done, I will create a macro that allows people to print a technical manual by having it go through and only print text with a "technical" category assigned, or create a user guide by only printing "instructional" sections. I'm not sure how to do this or if it is even possible. Any thoughts or advice would be appreciated. -- Hmm...they have the Internet on COMPUTERS now! |
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