As a technical writer, I need to create User's Guides for business
applications where I guie the users through the steps to perform different
tasks. Some of the instructions that I write are common to all the tasks, for
instance I need to use the instruction "Click [Save]. The details are saved."
for many of the tasks. I need to know if there's any way to write the
instruction once and reuse the text/instruction elsewhere in the document. If
I make changes in the instruction once, it should get updated everywhere else
in the document. I am looking for something beyond the 'Insert AutoText'
option or the copy-paste facility.

What you require is not possible (or certainly not easy). If you want
inserted text to be updatable you are going to have to insert it as a
field - either an autotext field or an includetext field. Even then you will
have to force an update to reflect changed information.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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Debarshi wrote:
As a technical writer, I need to create User's Guides for business
applications where I guie the users through the steps to perform
different tasks. Some of the instructions that I write are common to
all the tasks, for instance I need to use the instruction "Click
[Save]. The details are saved." for many of the tasks. I need to know
if there's any way to write the instruction once and reuse the
text/instruction elsewhere in the document. If I make changes in the
instruction once, it should get updated everywhere else in the
document. I am looking for something beyond the 'Insert AutoText'
option or the copy-paste facility.

Thank you! Your solution was very helpful.

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

What you require is not possible (or certainly not easy). If you want
inserted text to be updatable you are going to have to insert it as a
field - either an autotext field or an includetext field. Even then you will
have to force an update to reflect changed information.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Debarshi wrote:
As a technical writer, I need to create User's Guides for business
applications where I guie the users through the steps to perform
different tasks. Some of the instructions that I write are common to
all the tasks, for instance I need to use the instruction "Click
[Save]. The details are saved." for many of the tasks. I need to know
if there's any way to write the instruction once and reuse the
text/instruction elsewhere in the document. If I make changes in the
instruction once, it should get updated everywhere else in the
document. I am looking for something beyond the 'Insert AutoText'
option or the copy-paste facility.

Use an AutoText field instead of inserting the AutoText. Note, you'll still
have to update the fields.
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As a technical writer, I need to create User's Guides for business
applications where I guie the users through the steps to perform different
tasks. Some of the instructions that I write are common to all the tasks,
for
instance I need to use the instruction "Click [Save]. The details are
saved."
for many of the tasks. I need to know if there's any way to write the
instruction once and reuse the text/instruction elsewhere in the document.
If
I make changes in the instruction once, it should get updated everywhere
else
in the document. I am looking for something beyond the 'Insert AutoText'
option or the copy-paste facility.