Script a Template

[Guest]

I have set up a pitch template for the company, incorporating house styles,
headers footers, page numbering TOC etc.

I would like help in determining how best to share this document, in terms
of avoiding having to reformat over and over because other users tend to add
their text to it and then I end up having to reformat it.

Ideally I would like a scenario where the user opens the template, saves as
a new document (which populates the title page) but then asks for individual
department entries etc. I want to be able to set the document so that the
title pages and the headers and footers and styles cant be touched. And so
that individual departments within the firm only enter text into their own
"space" in the document. Can anyone help? I am thinking forms but not sure
if that is the correct way forward.
Many thanks

I have thought about entering field code boxes to enable the text to be
added with the styles already applied.

often the document would be opened, saved and then distributed to several
people who add their own text (often cut and pasted in in all different
fonts) and then it is edited.

I would like to avoid having to go through and reformat everything as often
have the strucutre and layout set up but want to know the best way of adding
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headings and footers and styles running smoothly however I want the users to
be able to answer

 

[Graham Mayor]

You need to research how templates work, which is not how you are planning
to use them.
Save the document *as a template* then create new documents from it. The
template remains untouched by the user.
You may find http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Letterhead.htm useful.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Or see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/CreateATemplatePart1.htm.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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