Changing Building blocks category

[Vivian]

I work for a government agency and in previous versions of Word I created 7
global templates where I stored autotext specific to each template. Several
stored hundreds of entries. A script was created that ran daily when users
log on that deleted all the global templates in the Office/Startup folder and
replaced them with the newest versions that contain updates and/or additions.
This system worked great. With Word 2007 the building blocks organizer lists
all these global template entries as general autotext. I would like to be
able to categorize the entries for each of the 7 global templates to reflect
their description. For example: Global Template "OUROFFICE" has separate
entries for the employee name and one for their employee number. I want the
Employee name to be categorized as "Employee" and their Number to be
categorized as "Employee number". It is a daunting task to do this one by one
is there a way to batch change categories.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

 

[Greg Maxey]

Vivian,

I have put together an AddIn
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Word2007_Building_Blocks_&_AutoText.htm

That among other things will let you copy building blocks from one category
to another (you would then delete the old building blocks). I am not sure
if it is a solution that you need, but it might work to save you some time.