Multiple documents

[Rigby]

Hi

I was wondering if this is possible in Word 2003 (or Office 2003)

Say if you had 20 documents, all saved as separate files.

I then want to select 4 of thoses files either by radio buttons or
something, and that then will pull those 4 documents into 1 document. Can
this be done?

I'll explain what we are trying to do. We are a training company that
delivers national qualifications. Under the qualification there are 20 or
30 modules all with different performance critiera that must be met to be
able to pass that module. Someone may come along and say that they want to
apply for RPL (Recognition of Prior Learning) on 4 modules. I want to be
able to go to one document, select those 4 and bring it into 1 document.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance
Leanne

 

[Anne Troy]

Yes, Leanne, it's possible, but to do so without errors and "intelligently"
would require a good bit of VBA. I did the project management for something
similar for Kronos.
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Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

It might be possible to use IncludeText, though that won't give you radio
buttons.

For example, set up a super-document that has an IncludeText field pulling
the content of all 20 documents, viewed as field codes, so that you see

{IncludeText "Document1"}
{IncludeText "Document2"}

Then you just Save As, delete the unwanted IncludeText fields, toggle field
codes, and you should be good. Unlink the fields, because it doesn't sound
like you want this document to update.

For info on using IncludeText, see here:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/includetextfields.htm