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Old January 26th, 2005, 04:27 PM
Dave
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I have a master document, with about 50 subs, with a total
page count of around 250. Each sub is a different section
of a construction specification. Each new project requires
a spec, and only about half of the total sections are ever
used for any project. For each new project, I want to be
able to select which sections I want, have them saved to a
new folder for the new project name, and all be opened
with the master document. This will allow me to customize
each section to the given project, without affecting the
standard sub-document.

The only way I can think of to do this is to open each
subdocument, and Save As.. the master and each sub to the
new folder, then delete the leftover hyperlinks to the
unneeded subs. This takes forever.

Is there no way to just change the hyperlink within the
master document? Ideally, I would like to be able to have
a form set up, where I can select the sub-documents I want
with radio buttons, and have them copied to a new folder,
with a master document created, containing only those
subs, with a table of contents for each sub-document.

Any advice or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Dave
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Old January 26th, 2005, 04:36 PM
Jonathan West
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Hi Dave

If your Master Document hasn't shown signs of corruption, I suspect it will
not be long before it does.

These articles may be interesting (if frightening) reading

Why Master Documents corrupt
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/Wh...ocsCorrupt.htm

How to recover a Master Document
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/RecoverMasterDocs.htm

I would recommend that you move away from master documents altogether and
use RD fields to create a consolidated TOC & index from your document set.
This article shows you how to manage this process. It has the advantage that
you can copy a document set to a new folder and everything will still work.

Creating a Table of Contents Spanning Multiple Documents
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/P...cle.asp?ID=148

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"Dave" wrote in message
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I have a master document, with about 50 subs, with a total
page count of around 250. Each sub is a different section
of a construction specification. Each new project requires
a spec, and only about half of the total sections are ever
used for any project. For each new project, I want to be
able to select which sections I want, have them saved to a
new folder for the new project name, and all be opened
with the master document. This will allow me to customize
each section to the given project, without affecting the
standard sub-document.

The only way I can think of to do this is to open each
subdocument, and Save As.. the master and each sub to the
new folder, then delete the leftover hyperlinks to the
unneeded subs. This takes forever.

Is there no way to just change the hyperlink within the
master document? Ideally, I would like to be able to have
a form set up, where I can select the sub-documents I want
with radio buttons, and have them copied to a new folder,
with a master document created, containing only those
subs, with a table of contents for each sub-document.

Any advice or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Dave


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Old January 26th, 2005, 04:45 PM
Joseph N
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Dave wrote:
Each new project requires
a spec, and only about half of the total sections are ever
used for any project. For each new project, I want to be
able to select which sections I want, have them saved to a
new folder for the new project name, and all be opened
with the master document.


I'm anxious to see other responses, because I'm trying to do something
very similar. In the meanwhile, though, there are two suggestions I can
make:

First, depending on the content for what are now subdocuments, you might
be able to use autotext entries. While they are generally menu-driven,
you could probably use radio button controls and VBA instead; that's out
of my expertise.

Second, the best way for you to do what you want is really with a
document assembly program. HotDocs is the only one I'm familiar with,
and it works nicely with Word; there are others, too.

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Old January 29th, 2005, 04:06 PM
Daiya Mitchell
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I'm late with this, so I hope you are still around, but an alternative to
the other suggestions might be IncludeText fields. If you Insert | File,
but check the box "link to file" then the text of the inserted field is
added as an IncludeText field. This is another way to create composite
documents--as you edit the inserted file, you can update the field in the
composite file to pick up the changes.

It might be particularly appropriate in your case, because if you created a
doc with a includetext fields for *all* the specifications, then toggled
field codes (alt-F9) so that all you see is the {INCLUDETEXT "name of file"}
code, it should be pretty easy to do a Save As, delete the unwanted fields,
then toggle field codes back and print, email. Probably also a good idea,
for each project, to then Unlink the Fields (cntl-shift-F9) so that they
become text and you have an unchanging record of the specifications you
started each project with.

Ideally, you would create a template that includes all the fields, the TOC
field, and whatever other formatting, which would prevent you forgetting to
Save As.

I think this would be pretty close to the ideal form you describe.

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On 1/26/05 8:27 AM, "Dave" wrote:

I have a master document, with about 50 subs, with a total
page count of around 250. Each sub is a different section
of a construction specification. Each new project requires
a spec, and only about half of the total sections are ever
used for any project. For each new project, I want to be
able to select which sections I want, have them saved to a
new folder for the new project name, and all be opened
with the master document. This will allow me to customize
each section to the given project, without affecting the
standard sub-document.

The only way I can think of to do this is to open each
subdocument, and Save As.. the master and each sub to the
new folder, then delete the leftover hyperlinks to the
unneeded subs. This takes forever.

Is there no way to just change the hyperlink within the
master document? Ideally, I would like to be able to have
a form set up, where I can select the sub-documents I want
with radio buttons, and have them copied to a new folder,
with a master document created, containing only those
subs, with a table of contents for each sub-document.

Any advice or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Dave


 




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