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I have an internal client with 50+ single page documents. They currently
print and use these ad-hoc, but we'd like to add a layer of information to
the documentation process by doing a few things:
(1) create a single user interface (Word document or toolbar or userform)
that allows the user to select the appropriate document. By having the
interface retrieve the target document, we can avoid having people making
softcopies and then accidently not using the most up-to-date versions.
Question: is there a preferred way to do this? Should I look at bringing all
the 50+ documents into one word document and just show/hide pages, or is it
better to leave each document as a separate .doc, and just load the selected
one based on the filename?
(2) adding the current date/time in numeric format to the footer at the time
the document is printed
This seems simple enough
(3) when the document is printed, somehow verify that the printing was
successful, and open a text file on a network drive and append the date/time
information to that file
Question: Is there any reliable way to automatically/electronically confirm
that a document has printed successfully?
Question: What is the best way to make sure that two simultaneous users
won't run into problems if those two separate instances of Word both try to
open and write to the text file at the same time?
Thank you for any advice,
Keith
print and use these ad-hoc, but we'd like to add a layer of information to
the documentation process by doing a few things:
(1) create a single user interface (Word document or toolbar or userform)
that allows the user to select the appropriate document. By having the
interface retrieve the target document, we can avoid having people making
softcopies and then accidently not using the most up-to-date versions.
Question: is there a preferred way to do this? Should I look at bringing all
the 50+ documents into one word document and just show/hide pages, or is it
better to leave each document as a separate .doc, and just load the selected
one based on the filename?
(2) adding the current date/time in numeric format to the footer at the time
the document is printed
This seems simple enough
(3) when the document is printed, somehow verify that the printing was
successful, and open a text file on a network drive and append the date/time
information to that file
Question: Is there any reliable way to automatically/electronically confirm
that a document has printed successfully?
Question: What is the best way to make sure that two simultaneous users
won't run into problems if those two separate instances of Word both try to
open and write to the text file at the same time?
Thank you for any advice,
Keith