auto-text from external files?

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JurgenBrea

We have a typing pool who type the same paragraphs over and over again in
our documents. At the moment they use a template with auto-text entries.
There are just so many of them though. Is there any way we can use external
word files as libraries? So, they would open the template as usual, but
when they type in the trigger word, it would look in the external file and
return the applicable paragraph. *hopeful* Or if trigger words won't work,
some other way?
 
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JurgenBrea

oh wow.... that looks promising. are you suggesting that I use includetext
as an autotext entry?
 
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Greg Maxey

JurgenBrea,

Sure, you could. Say you have a file c:\Test.doc with fifty paragraphs
bookmarked para1, para2, para3, etc.

You could create includetext fields like {IncludeText "C:\\Test" para1 }
{IncludeText "C:\\Test" para2 } and save each as an autotext entry.
 
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JurgenBrea

Thank you Greg, worked like a charm!


Greg Maxey said:
JurgenBrea,

Sure, you could. Say you have a file c:\Test.doc with fifty paragraphs
bookmarked para1, para2, para3, etc.

You could create includetext fields like {IncludeText "C:\\Test" para1 }
{IncludeText "C:\\Test" para2 } and save each as an autotext entry.

--
Greg Maxey/Word MVP
See:
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm
For some helpful tips using Word.
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