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Is it possible to use wildcards in the includetext field? I have a merge document that uses a number of include text fields to bring in specified clauses. The user may or may not then edit these clauses. The resulting merged document (each merge only comprises 1 record) is named by a LinkID gained from the datasource concatenated with a number of other codes relating to workflow ID's, Physical location etc. Each filename will be unique, based on the LinkID In a second merge document which may be run days later, a copy of the edited specified clauses also needs to be included in this (second merge) document. Is there a way to do this without the user having to specify the file to be used - we are trying to remove user intervention/user error in this process. Thanks Heather |
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Hi Heather,
The file to be used must be specified in the INCLUDETEXT field. I can't see from your problem description how the name of the source file is determined. -- Cheers macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] "Fev" wrote in message ... Hi Is it possible to use wildcards in the includetext field? I have a merge document that uses a number of include text fields to bring in specified clauses. The user may or may not then edit these clauses. The resulting merged document (each merge only comprises 1 record) is named by a LinkID gained from the datasource concatenated with a number of other codes relating to workflow ID's, Physical location etc. Each filename will be unique, based on the LinkID In a second merge document which may be run days later, a copy of the edited specified clauses also needs to be included in this (second merge) document. Is there a way to do this without the user having to specify the file to be used - we are trying to remove user intervention/user error in this process. Thanks Heather |
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On Apr 1, 6:30*am, "macropod" wrote:
Hi Heather, The file to be used must be specified in theINCLUDETEXTfield. I can't see from your problem description how the name of the source file is determined. -- Cheers macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] "Fev" wrote in ... Hi Is it possible to use wildcards in theincludetextfield? *I have a merge document that uses a number of include text fields to bring in specified clauses. *The user may or may not then edit these clauses. The resulting merged document (each merge only comprises 1 record) is named by a LinkID gained from the datasource concatenated with a number of other codes relating to workflow ID's, Physical location etc. *Each filename will be unique, based on the LinkID *In a second merge document which may be run days later, a copy of the edited specified clauses also needs to be included in this (second merge) document. *Is there a way to do this without the user having to specify the file to be used - we are trying to remove user intervention/user error in this process. Thanks Heather- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - In the data source (is a csv export from SQL and has some 3000 fields, but only 1 record and is named automatically in the export process), contains a field called LinkID which provides at least the first 3 characters of the filename (this will always be unique). The other characters are determined by various other influences, but are not found in the datasource. As the 2 merges are done at different times, but use the same datasource, the LinkID appeared to be the best route to be able to find the resultant 1st merged document. I cannot store this data in the 2nd merge document as merges relating to other agreements will be conducted by multiple users throughout each day, using the 2nd merge document. Thanks Heather |
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