Word 2007 templates and building blocks

[Mo]

Hi all,
now with Word 2007 I would like to hear about new ways to create custom
templates. Traditionally in Word 2003 and earlier I would create a template
with layout like headers and footers and add some code to i.e. automatically
fill in address information in the footer and a logo in the header.
Is the building block feature something that enables a new way of thinking?
Or is there some other feature that makes it very different from 2003?
I know this is a very broad question, but I'm relly keen to hear how you are
using the new features in creating custom templates.
TIA,
/P

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

If your Word 2003 templates made use of User Forms for the user to input the
details that you wanted to appear in the Header and Footer (probably other
than the logo which I would suspect that you inserted manually into the
template), then I would not see any reason to change them. They should be
usable in Word 2007 as-is.

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[Mo]

Hi and thank you,

my question is more about state-of-the-art how to use the new stuff in 2007
in the art of custom templates for larger organizations.

As a matter of fact even the logo is subject to dynamic change depending on
organizational belonging.

I see dynamic objects like logos, user information (name, phone etc),
locality (address information), document language (proofing, salutation,
labels and such), header and footer layout (different ones for different
document types), boiler plate text (categorized, language dependancy etc).

Deployment of dynamic solutions - is the usage of buildning blocks an
advantage?

Is there a state-of-the-art approach to this in Word 2007? And especially I
would like some thoughts on building blocks - how do you use them in your
solutions?

Any contribution to this discussion is appreciated.

/P

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

I have never found the need to make use of Building Blocks. And quite
frankly, apart from things like Content Controls, there is not much that is
really new in Word 2007.

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Hope this helps.

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services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com