configurable document?

[Gary]

I have a docoument that is made up of 30 pages of calculation descriptions
and around 20 pages of tables that are used in those calculations. The issue
is that I have various different versions of this document, some have the
same tables, but different content within the tables, some have extra tables
and extra calculation descriptions etc however the broad structure of the
document is the same. rather than having to maintain many different versions
of what is essentially the same document (which is both inefficient and risky
as sometimes I forget to update a version when we make a change that should
effect all versions. id like to know if its possible to make the word
document configurable, i.e so that I can go through and choose what versions
of the tables to use, whether to include pre defined sections or not and then
end up with my final version.

 

[Neil Humphries]

I have a similar problem in a long outline numbered document that must go to
5 different people. There are many paragraphs in common, but up to 5 versions
of other paragraphs only one of each of which I want to include in the
printed document at any given time. I was hoping there was a similar feature
to the enhanced autofilter capabilities in Excel. It would allow me to assign
a unique identifier for each person and filter on the different identifiers
prior to printing each report. If it wasn't for outline numbering and
formatting issues, I would consider using Excel.