Open Multiple Documents Within One Document

[John Abrahams]

I will describe what I am trying to do in simple terms.

Lets say that I have 10 sub-documents, and 5 main documents. I want to
make it so that I can place multiple sub-documents (which are just
plain word files) into a single main document (which is also a word
file). The point of it is that when I edit a sub-document it changes
within all of hte main documents. One way I think about it is like
hyperlinking a sub-document in a main document with some code that
allows it to be viewed in the word document so even if I change the
sub-document it updates in all of them. If anyone has an idea how to
accomplish this or need more clarification please say. Thank you.

John Abrahams

 

[Guest]

Hi John,

Possibly you could use INCLUDETEXT fields?

E.g. in one of your main documents you might have things like

{ INCLUDETEXT "\\\\MyServer\\MyFolder\\MySubDoc1.doc" }

When you select the fields and update them (F9) they should display the
content of the sub-documents.

Note, if you create the fields manually you need to use Ctrl+F9 for the
curly brackets, not the curly bracket keys on the keyboard. Also note the
doubling of the backslashes.

Regards.

Ed

 

[John Abrahams]

Thank you Ed! I think that will work fine! I've played around with it
a bit and it seems easy enough. Thank you once again.

 

[Guest]

You're welcome

Regards.

Ed