Two looks for the same document

[J Whales]

Hi all !

I've got a problem and I have no idea where to start, or if it's even
possible to do...

Our company will be producing several documents, each to be used by
both us and an another company. We would like to be able to change the
look of the document by doing a simple operation, like switching the
template.

For example, if I have template A.dot with our company colors and
images ans template B.dot with the other company's colors and images.
Both templates have the same styles (names) defined, with different
font size, spacing and/or colors. I send template B to the other
company, which saves it as A.dot. Then I create a document based on
template A. I see my company's images and colors. If I send the
document to the other company, they would see THEIR colors and images
because of their version of template B.

Am I making sense? I understand that at some point there will probably
be some sort of VBA script involved, but I would prefer not to have to
do a kind of massive 'search & replace' to swap every images and adjust
every styles...

Any ideas would be highly appreciated!

J Whales

 

[Howard Kaikow]

Hi all !

I've got a problem and I have no idea where to start, or if it's even
possible to do...

Our company will be producing several documents, each to be used by
both us and an another company. We would like to be able to change the
look of the document by doing a simple operation, like switching the
template.

For example, if I have template A.dot with our company colors and
images ans template B.dot with the other company's colors and images.
Both templates have the same styles (names) defined, with different
font size, spacing and/or colors. I send template B to the other
company, which saves it as A.dot. Then I create a document based on
template A. I see my company's images and colors. If I send the
document to the other company, they would see THEIR colors and images
because of their version of template B.

Am I making sense? I understand that at some point there will probably
be some sort of VBA script involved, but I would prefer not to have to
do a kind of massive 'search & replace' to swap every images and adjust
every styles...

Any ideas would be highly appreciated!

J Whales

If you can programmatically identify which template is installed, you could
have a macro attach the appropriate template,

Another, perhaps easier, way would be to have a macro that creates a copy of
the document for each template, and you send each document to the
appropriate recipient.

 

[Mike]

To change templates from the menu bar select Format | Theme | Style
Gallery button
A dialog box will be displayed showing the current document.

Different templates can be selected and applied to the document.

I have never used this facility, and I suspect you will have to be very
careful with the design of your templates.
Good luck.

Regards

Mike