How do I automatically update Boilerplate verbiage?

[Guest]

I have about 160 documents that I maintain on a weekly basis. These
documents have about 40% 'boilerplate' verbiage (URLs, Disclaimers, Common
Descriptions, etc.) and about 60% document specific information.

About every week, a URL or common description changes. I have hired
somebody to manually go into every 160 documents and make the changes
required. However, I'm wondering if there is a way Word (2007) can 'update'
by looking up the most recent verbiage for a particular section. Sort of
like Excel can look to other groups of cells and update automatically when
those cells change.

Unfortunately, the changes cannot be managed by FIND/REPLACE.

Ideas?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You could use document properties (with DocProperty fields) or AutoText
fields (which would update when you update the associated AutoText entry).

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Words into Type
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[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Why are you so sure that they cannot be managed with Find and Replace?

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[Guest]

Can you do Find/Replace across 160 documents at a time? I guess it could
work - basically copy in the entire old list of URLs and Replace with the
new list of URLs.

However, I'm looking for something a little more poweful... guess more like
an HTML Frame type concept.

 

[Guest]

Doug - i found your macro on http://www.gmayor.com/batch_replace.htm.

Do you think this will work on the TR of Word 2007?

Dave