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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?
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?