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maintaining different editions of same doc in Word
I am creating a number of documents that I want to be able to use with
different target audiences in Kenya and Tanzania (and possibly Ghana). It is intended that the core material will identical, but I want to be able to do different country versions. This means that I need different contact info on each doc, though I assume that I could do that with mail merge. The tricky bit is that I want to be able to insert different logos €“ both on the cover page and, ideally, as a washed out version on alternate pages. Better still, I would like to automate all this so that changing from one version to the other only requires a quick choice in a dialogue box or from a menu. I fully accept that it would be easier just to write the complete document and then do the changes, but the document itself is for training programmes and is likely therefore to need to keep being changed as we get more feedback. Any ideas or tips would be greatly appreciated. I am using Office XP (also known as Office 200) and Vista David Irwin |
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maintaining different editions of same doc in Word
One way to do this is with IncludeText and IncludePicture fields. When you
change the linked text or picture and update the field, it will reflect the different content. To some extent you can do this with DocProperty fields, but document properties cannot contain graphics. AutoText entries can do all of these things, so an AutoText field can be useful, but it's a lot of trouble to change AutoText entries. Ordinarily with an IncludeText or IncludePicture field, you would update the actual file that is being referenced (if only by renaming one of several files), but you can equally well use Find and Replace to substitute a different file path in the field itself. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "David Irwin" wrote in message ... I am creating a number of documents that I want to be able to use with different target audiences in Kenya and Tanzania (and possibly Ghana). It is intended that the core material will identical, but I want to be able to do different country versions. This means that I need different contact info on each doc, though I assume that I could do that with mail merge. The tricky bit is that I want to be able to insert different logos €“ both on the cover page and, ideally, as a washed out version on alternate pages. Better still, I would like to automate all this so that changing from one version to the other only requires a quick choice in a dialogue box or from a menu. I fully accept that it would be easier just to write the complete document and then do the changes, but the document itself is for training programmes and is likely therefore to need to keep being changed as we get more feedback. Any ideas or tips would be greatly appreciated. I am using Office XP (also known as Office 200) and Vista David Irwin |
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