Best practice suggestion. Please

[smart]

We are small company manufacturing some devices.
And each client of us requires different data report of word, e.g. different
title, sequence of data, some may need table and others want them in a list.

We are overwhelmed by this kind of programming.

Is there any good practice to let our customers define their own template,
then make some marks in the document. Then our software system can find
those marks and replace them with actual data?

So what's the best practice? Using bookmark? special text patterns? or
Field? We don't really have much experience in VBA.

Thanks.

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

smart was telling us:
smart nous racontait que :

We are small company manufacturing some devices.
And each client of us requires different data report of word, e.g.
different title, sequence of data, some may need table and others
want them in a list.
We are overwhelmed by this kind of programming.

Is there any good practice to let our customers define their own
template, then make some marks in the document. Then our software
system can find those marks and replace them with actual data?

So what's the best practice? Using bookmark? special text patterns? or
Field? We don't really have much experience in VBA.

You should design and then provide the template to your clients.
If possible it should be a protected forms with formfields.
You could also use InfoPath.

I think that if you want this done right, because you state you do not have
little VBA experience, you should consider hiring someone, unless you have
the time to build the project one step at the time with some help from the
groups...

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Salut!
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