Add-in or component to access database or XML from MS-Word

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Steve Ro

It is difficult to succinctly describe what I am looking for in the
title of the post but a smart and simple solution may be obvious to
some people here.

I have a list of "requirements" arranged in a text document. They
actually form a small hierarchy with about 2,3 or 4 levels roughly -
I
could represent this easily in XML.

In Word I want to be able to quickly navigate to a particular
"requirement" (simply a short sentence stating what is needed) and to
be able to select the text and copy it into the Word document, i.e.
I
want a way to quickly compile a specification from these
requirements.

Is there a simply way to do this? I currently have to search through
a
few 100 pages and find the requirement that I'm looking for, then
copy
and paste it in to my specification - this is tedious and slow. I
don't mind if I have to put the requirement data into XML or into
Access or Excel I just need to speed the process up. Any suggestions?

In addition, I first need to be able to search the list or database
of
requirements to find the appropriate requirement and then select it -
the text will then be copied/inserted into my specification.

Perhaps there is an add-in I can use, download, buy or write(I'm used
to develop in C/C++ when I had a proper job!), one that operates like
a tree control (from which you paste the selected text) and one that
can be loaded with the text from an XML file. Is there such a
component I can customise?
 
D

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

Well you could re-invent the wheel, or you could get hold of fellow MVP Bill
Coan's Dataprompter at:

http://www.wordsite.com/


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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP
 
U

urkec

Maybe you could post some sample lines from your list, and also the data
structure. It is possible to write some code to put tags around the data, but
with 100+ pages it could take some time to get it to work.
 

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