Cascading Data to other Word Documents

[Guest]

Hello everyone,

Here is a scenario:

Suppose I had created a user manual for an appliance called
appliance-user-manual.doc. This manual has many different sections (e.g.
appliance setup section , appliance maintenance section) .

Using the data in appliance-user-manual.doc I created smaller documents for
each section of it. E.g. setup-document.doc for the appliance setup section
and
maintenance- document.doc for the appliance maintenance section.

How do I make sure that whenever the data in the appliance setup and
appliance maintenance sections are updated in the appliance-user-manual.doc
that these updates are automatically reflected in the setup-document.doc and
maintenance-document.doc ?


I searched the forum before but based on my search criteria I only found out
how to do this within the same document.

Thanks.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://daiya.mvps.org/includetext.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hi Highrola

Suppose I had created a user manual for an appliance called
appliance-user-manual.doc. This manual has many different sections (e.g.
appliance setup section , appliance maintenance section) .

Using the data in appliance-user-manual.doc I created smaller documents for
each section of it. E.g. setup-document.doc for the appliance setup section
and maintenance- document.doc for the appliance maintenance section.

How do I make sure that whenever the data in the appliance setup and
appliance maintenance sections are updated in the appliance-user-manual.doc
that these updates are automatically reflected in the setup-document.doc and
maintenance-document.doc ?

for me, the other way round would be more straight-forward: hold the
"originals" in individual files, and compile the big document by
dynamically pulling in the content through INCLUDETEXT fields. (Or, in a
throwaway scenario, through a Master Document ).

In your case, you can define bookmarks for the individual chapters and
insert INCLUDETEXT fields to a bookmark in the smaller files. A bit more
effort, and the bookmarks are easily deleted by mistake, but it should
be workable.

HTH
Robert

 

[Guest]

Hello Suzanne,

Thank you for this information !

I will go through it right away

 

[Guest]

Hello Robert,

Less work in limited time is always welcomed !

Thank you very much !