Need Direction for Complex Document Template Library

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We have a situation were our Word "Template Library" has grown to over 1200 files, with approximately 40 different users accessing them. Many of these templates are extremely similar, with only minor differences (for example, I may have 25 versions of one document with only a few words or a single sentence different)

Would like to get some direction on a consolidation project in which I can get the library down to a managable quanitity utilizing VBA (or other technology) to assist in the differences. If anyone can point me to any Books, White Papers, Resources, Links, Etc. I would be extremely grateful

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Steve
 
Tools > Track Changes > Compare Documents is Word's feature for allowing this. VBA I dunno. Our process 7 years ago was accomplished manually. I do have almost 7 years of experience supporting forms/templates and standards in a firm of over 1700 (26 offices each with over 100 forms in each office's customized set) and have experience implementing said forms if you have any questions about how that might be accomplished when you get to that step

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We have a situation were our Word "Template Library" has grown to over 1200 files, with approximately 40 different users accessing them. Many of these templates are extremely similar, with only minor differences (for example, I may have 25 versions of one document with only a few words or a single sentence different)

Would like to get some direction on a consolidation project in which I can get the library down to a managable quanitity utilizing VBA (or other technology) to assist in the differences. If anyone can point me to any Books, White Papers, Resources, Links, Etc. I would be extremely grateful

Regards

Steve
 
Please excuse me if I am missing the drift of your
question, but could you use autotext, or maybe macros that
can be run from a custom toolbar, to automate the text
entry? In other words, could the 25 versions be
consolidated into one, and the changes implemented through
the use of autotext or macros? I agree that the
consolidation, however it occurs, will be a mostly manual
process. It is possible to impose a certain amount of
cooperation between documents, but the work involved is
almost surely greater than doing it manually.
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Tools > Track Changes > Compare Documents is Word's
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feature for allowing this. VBA I dunno. Our process 7
years ago was accomplished manually. I do have almost 7
years of experience supporting forms/templates and
standards in a firm of over 1700 (26 offices each with
over 100 forms in each office's customized set) and have
experience implementing said forms if you have any
questions about how that might be accomplished when you
get to that step.
----- S Adams wrote: -----

We have a situation were our Word "Template Library"
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has grown to over 1200 files, with approximately 40
different users accessing them. Many of these templates
are extremely similar, with only minor differences (for
example, I may have 25 versions of one document with only
a few words or a single sentence different).
Would like to get some direction on a consolidation
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project in which I can get the library down to a managable
quanitity utilizing VBA (or other technology) to assist in
the differences. If anyone can point me to any Books,
White Papers, Resources, Links, Etc. I would be extremely
grateful.
 
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