Automating the creation and formatting of tables

I work for a small financial typesetters who are moving to word as a platform for productivity. I am formulating a template to automate the process of composing a new financial document with the view to produce revisions with blacklining, deletion marks and strikethroughs.

I would like some advice on the quickest and easiest way of setting 2, 3, 4, 5, 6+ column tabs in the easiest way possible (i.e. using macro's/stylesheets). Automatically formatting these tables would be extremely benificial too. Such things to bear in mind include hanging numbers by decimal point, and hanging close brackets ")" outside the list of numbers within a table.

Clients need to see corrections made to documents by way of blacklining, strikethroughs, and deletion marks. What is the best way of showing this. MS Word does not meet the standards my clients ask for. I have heard of a product called DeltaView by Workshare, and think this is the way forward.

I would very much appreciate your feedback and general views.

Regards,

Daryl

For the tables, set them up formatted as you wish, then save as AutoText
entries.
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AutoText.htm

One of these links should help you roll them out to all computers:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...utocorrect.htm
http://addbalance.com/word/movetotemplate.htm

Maybe also useful for your environment?
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/tblsfldsfms/AutoTextList.htm

For the corrections, I think Track Changes allows most of that, except I
forget what blacklining is, just learned it the other day, and don't know
how a deletion mark differs from strikethrough or change bars. If you are
in Word 2002, you need a macro to control the settings, the menu is more
limited then it should be. But I don't know anything re DeltaView and it
may well be your best solution, try googling for more info/reviews on that.

DM


"Daryl" wrote:

I work for a small financial typesetters who are moving to word as a platform
for productivity. I am formulating a template to automate the process of
composing a new financial document with the view to produce revisions with
blacklining, deletion marks and strikethroughs.
I would like some advice on the quickest and easiest way of setting 2, 3, 4,
5, 6+ column tabs in the easiest way possible (i.e. using
macro's/stylesheets). Automatically formatting these tables would be extremely
benificial too. Such things to bear in mind include hanging numbers by decimal
point, and hanging close brackets ")" outside the list of numbers within a
table.

Clients need to see corrections made to documents by way of blacklining,
strikethroughs, and deletion marks. What is the best way of showing this. MS
Word does not meet the standards my clients ask for. I have heard of a product
called DeltaView by Workshare, and think this is the way forward.

I would very much appreciate your feedback and general views.

Regards,

Daryl