Managing word documents, inserting & updating of similar contents

[joes]

Hello

I am looking for some technical possibilities regarding how I can
manage the content of word documents.

I have to write several manuals for different applications. Most of
these applications have similiar features, which means I would more or
less copy and paste sections to different word documents. The sections
have normal word content, tables, images hyperlinks etc. The problem
is now if such a section is changing then I have to identify which
word documents have such a section and to update those. to do this
manually is not applicable.

There must exist for sure some simple products or even built in
possiblities to set up a managment of content. i.e. extract with
vbscript the content from other word documents or database and insert
it into the others automatically.

We are using here Windows 2000 with MS Office XP professional.

Please let me know your experience and technical suggestions how I
could achieve my "content management" of word documents.

many thanks
kind regards

Mark

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi Mark,

I'll recommend DataPrompter (http://www.wordsite.com/products/dpdas.htm), a
product published by fellow MVP Bill Coan. It's designed to do exactly what
you've described.

 

[TroyB]

Mark,

Depending on your specfic uses, you may want to try
http://www.activedocs.com/. We use it at our company and its a great help
(saves time!).
Theres a fully functional free 21day trial if you want to give it a go.
HTH
Regards
Boeky