AboutSuzanne S. Barnhill Expertise I've been using Word for Windows since version 2.0 (1992), and the more I learn
about it, the more I realize how little I know. But I may know a few things
that you don't, and I'll help if I can. I answer many questions every day in
Microsoft's peer support newsgroups and as a result have been awarded the
MVP (Most Valuable Professional) designation by Microsoft Corporation. You
may be able to find the answer to your question at the Word MVPs' FAQ site or at my own Word FAQ site, so please check those first! Please, no questions about VBA (macros), Registry editing, networks, or complex merges, as I have no experience with these aspects of Word, nor do I have any experience with Word for the Mac.
Experience I have a master's degree in classics (Latin), which is surprisingly helpful, though I no longer teach. The things I am proudest of: Having raised two children to maturity, both Merit Scholars, both college graduates (one a philosophy major!), one Phi Beta Kappa (from Harvard!); having been made a Paul Harris Fellow by my Rotary club; having been designated a Microsoft MVP.
Education/Credentials B.A. (Latin), Agnes Scott College, 1966; M.A. (Classics), Emory University, 1972.
I'm updating an Employee Handbook for a company with divisions in several states. Most of the information in the Handbook applies to everyone, but each location has information that only applies to it.
Each time a change is made to the "master" document, each "localized" copy has to be updated and the author has to ensure that only the sections from the "master" are updated and that the "localized" information remains intact. I've looked at Master document in Word and as best as I can tell, it doesn't handle conditional slave documents.
What I'd like to be able to do is have folders for each location as well as the master document and when creating output, be able to specify which location the output will be for. Word (or a macro/VBA program) will then pull the pieces together.
If you have any ideas or suggestions, I'd really appreciate hearing them.
Thanks in advance,
Ken Kimbrough
Answer Your best bet is to bookmark the changeable parts in the "master" document and use IncludeText fields to insert these parts in the "slave" documents. For more on this see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/includetextfields.htm
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word) 1999-2009
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