Templates and Subdocuments

[Mariedke Dalman]

I am creating a number of templates for my department that
will prompt them upon opening to input required
information, which will then be put in the appropriate
spots. This part of it has gone well, however there are 2
additional documents I need for each template. Because
these 2 documents could be changed/revised at any time,
and to save me from opening up 30+ templates and doing the
revisions, I had thought to insert them as subdocuments,
allowing any changes that happened to the originals to be
available to the templates immediately. Unfortunately,
when I run the macro, all I see is a hyperlink and I
really need it to be an actual page within the document.

Any ideas? Is there a macro I could insert to run in the
background that would insert the documents when the
template is used?

Thanks!

- Mariedke

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hi Mariedke,

I am creating a number of templates for my department that
will prompt them upon opening to input required
information, which will then be put in the appropriate
spots. This part of it has gone well, however there are 2
additional documents I need for each template. Because
these 2 documents could be changed/revised at any time,
and to save me from opening up 30+ templates and doing the
revisions, I had thought to insert them as subdocuments,
allowing any changes that happened to the originals to be
available to the templates immediately. Unfortunately,
when I run the macro, all I see is a hyperlink and I
really need it to be an actual page within the document.

sounds like a good use for an INCLUDETEXT-field that brings in a
document.

Greetinx
..bob

 

[Joseph N.]

Have you tried Insert/File with a link, instead of
Sub-docs?

MVP's: Has the way that Word stores information in breaks, which
can lead to corruption in master/subdocuments, changed in Word
2003 because of XML? In other words, is Word 2003 supposed to be
more resistent to corruption than previous versions?

(And is it even true that Word docs corrupt easier than files from
other word processors?)

 

[Joseph N.]

Thanks Cindy.