working w/ multiple templates

[Guest]

I have created several templates in Word 2000. I wonder if there is anyway
to tie corresponding fields together so that information entered into one
template is automatically entered into all corresponding fields in other
template documents?

Thanks,
Mike

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you bookmark the information in one document/template, you can use
INCLUDETEXT fields to insert it in the others. Alternatively, you can create
AutoText entries and insert AutoText *fields* in all the templates.

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Words into Type
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[Guest]

what about a creating a 'master document'? Would that be easier?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

That's not what a master document is, but see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/WhyMasterDocsCorrupt.htm

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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Charles Kenyon]

I tend to use mailmerge for this. I put the common information in a data
file and merge to create the separate documents.
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[Guest]

I have been playing around with the includetext and can't figure it out, do
you know where i can find any tutorials or something?