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Hello everyone,
Here is a scenario: Suppose I had created a user manual for an appliance called appliance-user-manual.doc. This manual has many different sections (e.g. appliance setup section , appliance maintenance section) . Using the data in appliance-user-manual.doc I created smaller documents for each section of it. E.g. setup-document.doc for the appliance setup section and maintenance- document.doc for the appliance maintenance section. How do I make sure that whenever the data in the appliance setup and appliance maintenance sections are updated in the appliance-user-manual.doc that these updates are automatically reflected in the setup-document.doc and maintenance-document.doc ? I searched the forum before but based on my search criteria I only found out how to do this within the same document. Thanks. |
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See http://daiya.mvps.org/includetext.htm
-- 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. "Highrola2000" wrote in message ... Hello everyone, Here is a scenario: Suppose I had created a user manual for an appliance called appliance-user-manual.doc. This manual has many different sections (e.g. appliance setup section , appliance maintenance section) . Using the data in appliance-user-manual.doc I created smaller documents for each section of it. E.g. setup-document.doc for the appliance setup section and maintenance- document.doc for the appliance maintenance section. How do I make sure that whenever the data in the appliance setup and appliance maintenance sections are updated in the appliance-user-manual.doc that these updates are automatically reflected in the setup-document.doc and maintenance-document.doc ? I searched the forum before but based on my search criteria I only found out how to do this within the same document. Thanks. |
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Hi Highrola
Highrola2000 wrote: Suppose I had created a user manual for an appliance called appliance-user-manual.doc. This manual has many different sections (e.g. appliance setup section , appliance maintenance section) . Using the data in appliance-user-manual.doc I created smaller documents for each section of it. E.g. setup-document.doc for the appliance setup section and maintenance- document.doc for the appliance maintenance section. How do I make sure that whenever the data in the appliance setup and appliance maintenance sections are updated in the appliance-user-manual.doc that these updates are automatically reflected in the setup-document.doc and maintenance-document.doc ? for me, the other way round would be more straight-forward: hold the "originals" in individual files, and compile the big document by dynamically pulling in the content through INCLUDETEXT fields. (Or, in a throwaway scenario, through a Master Document :-)). In your case, you can define bookmarks for the individual chapters and insert INCLUDETEXT fields to a bookmark in the smaller files. A bit more effort, and the bookmarks are easily deleted by mistake, but it should be workable. HTH Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Hello Suzanne,
Thank you for this information ! I will go through it right away "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: See http://daiya.mvps.org/includetext.htm -- 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. "Highrola2000" wrote in message ... Hello everyone, Here is a scenario: Suppose I had created a user manual for an appliance called appliance-user-manual.doc. This manual has many different sections (e.g. appliance setup section , appliance maintenance section) . Using the data in appliance-user-manual.doc I created smaller documents for each section of it. E.g. setup-document.doc for the appliance setup section and maintenance- document.doc for the appliance maintenance section. How do I make sure that whenever the data in the appliance setup and appliance maintenance sections are updated in the appliance-user-manual.doc that these updates are automatically reflected in the setup-document.doc and maintenance-document.doc ? I searched the forum before but based on my search criteria I only found out how to do this within the same document. Thanks. |
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Hello Robert,
Less work in limited time is always welcomed ! Thank you very much ! "Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote: Hi Highrola Highrola2000 wrote: Suppose I had created a user manual for an appliance called appliance-user-manual.doc. This manual has many different sections (e.g. appliance setup section , appliance maintenance section) . Using the data in appliance-user-manual.doc I created smaller documents for each section of it. E.g. setup-document.doc for the appliance setup section and maintenance- document.doc for the appliance maintenance section. How do I make sure that whenever the data in the appliance setup and appliance maintenance sections are updated in the appliance-user-manual.doc that these updates are automatically reflected in the setup-document.doc and maintenance-document.doc ? for me, the other way round would be more straight-forward: hold the "originals" in individual files, and compile the big document by dynamically pulling in the content through INCLUDETEXT fields. (Or, in a throwaway scenario, through a Master Document :-)). In your case, you can define bookmarks for the individual chapters and insert INCLUDETEXT fields to a bookmark in the smaller files. A bit more effort, and the bookmarks are easily deleted by mistake, but it should be workable. HTH Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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