Can I paste to more than one document at a time?

[Guest]

I have one line of text that I must add to 150 existing documents. All of
the documents are located in one folder. Someone mentioned that I could past
the one line of text to all of the documents at one time with one command.
Does anyone know how to do that?

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

You could write a macro to do it. But, there's nothing built into Word that
will automatically do it for you.

If it were my task to do, and if all 150 documents were based on the same
template, I would write an AutoOpen macro to insert the line, then open each
document, perhaps 15 at a time. Once done, I'd zap the AutoOpen macro.
Assuming the location of the one line of text can be determined in some
replicable way for each file, I'd record the AutoOpen macro, on the first
file. Then test it on the 2nd, and if it worked, go full force on the
remaining 148 documents. All told, assuming the recorded macro works and the
files aren't huge, the entire exercise might take 15 minutes or so.