Used to be known as "publish and subscribe"

[Duncan Rowland]

Hello,

I work on the preparation of financial information, including some lengthy
discussions. These documents frequently repeat the same data several times
(for example stating "sales increased x% in the quarter). We're a bit behind
the times, so we don't have our Word-based reports directly referencing data
from a database or excel, so the data and text is just keyed in, again and
again. We then have to spend lots of time checking and re-checking. Given the
number of versions that we can go through, this is a great time-wasting
process. A long time ago, Word for Macs had a feature called Publish and
Subscribe that enabled the user to key the data in once, then any repeats of
the data or text could 'subscribe' to that one spot. Any updates to the first
instance of the data would flow through to the subscribing data/text in the
document.

Sorry for the long description, but it's the best i can do to explain what
we face. Any assistance is much appreciated.

Thanks and regards,

Duncan

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

See here:
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Repeating_Data.htm

 

[Duncan Rowland]

Thanks Daiya, that was helpful. I'll be back tomorrow with a more complex
Word issue.